Diablo Immortal has apparently earned over $24M in just two weeks
According to Appmagic, it’s been downloaded over eight million times.
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It’s fair to say that Diablo Immortal hasn’t been well-received by every corner of the internet. The action-RPG’smicrotransactions sparked a brutal backlash, its loot boxesprevented it from being released in Belgium and the Netherlands, and criticism of this free-to-play spin-off raised enough concern about the next mainline Diablo game that Blizzard had topromise Diablo 4 won’t be monetized the same way.
None of that seems to have prevented Diablo Immortal from raking in the cash. As spotted byGameDev Reports, Diablo Immortal earned $24.3 million in its first two weeks and was downloaded over eight million times according to data sourced fromAppmagic. And that’s not even counting the PC version, which is currently in beta.
For the sake of comparison, Blizzard’s other big earner on mobile is Hearthstone, which brought in just over $5 million in the last month.
On the subject of the game itself, Tyler Colp calls Diablo Immortala game designed to exploit your love of Diablo, saying, “It’s built around the dopamine that comes from whacking demon piñatas for loot, meticulously designed to give you a jolt of satisfaction every 30 seconds—and then, when that’s not enough anymore, it charges you for it. For Diablo Immortal and games like it, the fun parts of games are money extraction devices.”
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