D4 barely has any, especially compared to Diablo Immortal. The game is actually pretty good at handing out resources that farming doesn’t really become an issue.

> especially compared to Diablo Immortal

Which the company is and has been spending significant dev time on.

For a criticism like "everyone is busy working on X instead of good things", X doesn't have to be in the same game.

True, but the idea that everyone at Blizzard is working on cash shop items for the mobile game rather than the AAA title just doesn't bear even the most basic of scrutiny though.

The word "everyone" is obviously hyperbole. Both games have developers. But the idea that microtransaction cash influences the allocation of developers and artists is pretty reasonable.

Yes that's reasonable but the idea that somehow people who aren't inside the sausage-making process can assume that the reason they don't like the "horse turning" animation in Diablo IV is that people were assigned to cash shop items in the mobile game is not reasonable.

It's entirely possible for example that they had plenty of animators and but ran out of time. Or they had animators and time but found that they had to compromise on some animations because there was too much going on on-screen and otherwise the frames would drop or the minimum spec would get uncomfortably high or whatever. There are any number of reasons that could be the cause here and we on teh outside have absolutely no way of knowing.

I hate what they did with diablo immortal as much as anyone but we don't know enough to say how that affected diablo IV if at all.

Every Blizzard cash shop drifts towards selling player power eventually.