Wednesday, June 1st 2022

Several European Countries to Miss Diablo Immortal Over Lootbox Regulations

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btarunr
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Thursday will see Blizzard's most ambitious take on the MMO genre—taking it to the mobile platform exclusively, with "Diablo Immortal." The game is being launched as "free to play," and like most titles built on this business-model, you buy in-game items to improve your gameplay, some of these are lootboxes. Blizzard decided to not release the game in countries with laws against lootboxes. This would mean that gamers in The Netherlands and Belgium would miss the game, Blizzard will not release or support the game for players from these countries. Even if they manage to install the game somehow (eg: using a VPN), Blizzard says it cannot guarantee that such players won't be banned from the game (because even playing the game would be illegal).
Sources: Evoratus (Reddit), CNET

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43 Comments on Several European Countries to Miss Diablo Immortal Over Lootbox Regulations

#1
Sithaer
Its not Mobile only anymore tho, will be playable on PC too with some GFX improvements and whatnot with cross save possible between PC and Mobile. 'like its written in that blue post'

This lootbox/micro transaction regulation also happeend with Lost Ark Western relase in those countries as far as I know.
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#2
demian_vi
2 countries are not several though..
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#3
ExcuseMeWtf
Really, Blizzard? You had time to prepare for that, those are not new lmao.
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#4
Sithaer
ExcuseMeWtfReally, Blizzard? You had time to prepare for that, those are not new lmao.
Amazon couldn't get around it either with Lost Ark so its also nothing new and thats a triple A MMO.
Just saying that this time around its not exactly Blizzard's fault unless they would relase a different version of the game for those countries but yea that aint happening.
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#5
Legacy-ZA
It's a pay-to-win model game, and I am not going to fork out $50k to have the best lol.
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#6
EatingDirt
SithaerIts not Mobile only anymore tho, will be playable on PC too with some GFX improvements and whatnot with cross save possible between PC and Mobile. 'like its written in that blue post'

This lootbox/micro transaction regulation also happeend with Lost Ark Western relase in those countries as far as I know.
Great, now people on PC can experience the sub-par gaming experience that is mobile gaming.
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#7
Sithaer
EatingDirtGreat, now people on PC can experience the sub-par gaming experience that is mobile gaming.
Can't argue with that but personally I will at least play it for the story since it takes part between D2 and D3 and that I'm curious about.
I grew up playing D2 since elementary school and played it for ~7 years and then D3 since day 1. 'put in a good ~3000 hours since'

Its free anyway so I'm gonna give it a try in a casual free2play way. 'Don't give a crap about having the best nor to compete with anyone'
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#8
PapaTaipei
And nothing of value was lost. Get rekt Blizzard.
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#9
Yttersta
@btarunr

...to Miss Diablo Immortal ...

To miss, really? :-P I mean we do all have phones but this is a bit over-ambitious from your part in the title I think
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#10
ZoneDymo
imagine still supporting Blizzard after the inhuman crap thats going on behind closed doors.
honestly im suprised and disappointed that the staff has not walked out yet for the majority, I would not want to work for or even be associated with a company like that
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#11
P4-630
Not in my country, well I don't care ha. :p
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#12
Vayra86
P4-630Not in my country, well I don't care ha. :p
I love it that the sheep over here aren't fed this particular meal, to be fair.

Its clear people are too stupid to protect themselves, and its about time more EU countries join our club of protecting young gamers from what is obvious gambling practices. Voting with wallets doesn't quite work too well or in our advantage so far.
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#13
Space Lynx
Astronaut
demian_vi2 countries are not several though..
I agree... two countries is a couple, three is a few, and 4 or more is several...

@btarunr you may want to edit your headline on this one, it is a bit misleading in all honesty mate
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#14
_Flare
a european pair of lootbox resistent countries
poor that germany didn´t join em
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#15
GerKNG
you know... you could just remove the gambling part out of a video game...
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#16
Dorek
I think you can still play it but just not make purchases, so not much of a big deal for free to play.
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#17
zlobby
Who will miss anything 'Diablo' after LoD? Now that we have PoE?
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#18
AusWolf
Is this really better than letting the shitshow we call lootboxing die like it should?
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#19
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
GerKNGyou know... you could just remove the gambling part out of a video game...
Think about poor Bobby and the shareholders!
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#20
zlobby
FrickThink about poor Bobby and the shareholders!
The beauty of shareholding!
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#21
fibre
zlobbyWho will miss anything 'Diablo' after LoD? Now that we have PoE?
I played PoE tens of hours, but after that I can't force myself to start the game again. If new Diablo is good I'll be happy. Not playing p2w games though.
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#22
zlobby
fibreI played PoE tens of hours, but after that I can't force myself to start the game again. If new Diablo is good I'll be happy. Not playing p2w games though.
IDK if PoE is considere p2w but all games have black markets for in-game goods around them. Chinese click farms FTW. With them everything turns to p2w.
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#23
mazzilla
I remember the finery that was the D3 Auction House and weirdly, sort of miss it. At the start it was relatively sane. Then it just went downhill. I only bought some gold if I remember correctly. Oh and the hamburger thing. It was cheap so I bought it. I do remember a level 70 weapon that someone was asking 10 million gold for. Which was about £100. They could have kept it if it was just restricted to gold rather than real money but it was what it was. Now its monetise everything everywhere even Windows itself. Jeez. I will go and play Immortal but aint going to buy a thing.
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#24
TheDeeGee
Pretty much sums up what the entire game is about.

I'm from the Netherlands myself and won't miss out on anything i feel.
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#25
fibre
zlobbyIDK if PoE is considere p2w but all games have black markets for in-game goods around them. Chinese click farms FTW. With them everything turns to p2w.
In general I have nothing against buying and selling items. But usually these p2w games have mechanics adapted for lootboxes and spending unreasonable amount of time grinding. I could play and finish PoE with similar effort as Diablo 2, just got tired of the game.
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