Diablo Immoral (Crowbcat at home edition)

[@Revalis936]

unironically the best video about Diablo Immortal

[@TheTanelChannel]

Thanks Revalis!

[@MrSkilladin]

Omg I LOVED this!

[@xijinpig7978]

If you parents cant cough out 10,000 for you on a mobile game. they are a failure - Wyatt Cheng

[@doriathhh]

Hell, at those prices they should just put up a share incentive plan on top of the in-game shop to make it worth your while to spend ridiculous sums on character power.

[@mralxndr2846]

you spelled Immoral wrong there.

[@PSandmore16]

Since Diablo Immortal came out, I can understand the Netherlands and Belgium for not allowing this kind of games. Really.

[@Tommysimonsen]

They do, they just see it as gambling, not gaming. Blizzard don`t want to pay the taxes. it is legal to gamble in Holland and Belgium, it`s just not allowed to pretend you don`t when you do. Selling casino chips and selling art work is not the same tax rate.

[@kingmickey666]

I'm glad I can't play this game, so others from my country can't play it either and can't spend a € on this shit storm.

[@michaeltihon3485]

I was first pissed off, as a Belgium citizen, installed a VPN, tried it... Uninstalled it. Now I get the reason of this law.

[@sumerian88]

These are no longer videogames. They are slot/gambling machines disguising as videogames, preying on the vulnerable. This is disgusting and should be illegal. Remember that these...''games'' ruin lives by siphoning the finances of people who cannot always afford such expenses, and they do so with intensive psychological manipulation. Traditional gambling is regulated, but since the law is falling behind on practices as always, many countries are too slow (or corrupt) to recognize this new method of gambling for what it is. I hope they eventually ban this shit altogether.

[@michaeltihon3485]

@@sumerian88 Exactly. Those kind of toxic "games" need to be ban worldwide.

[@goguma2008]

Blizzard went from "Do you guys not have phones?" To "Can you guys not get loans?"

[@GruppeSechs]

"Do you not hear our moans? $_$"

[@talkingbutt3150]

🤣👍💯

[@RealBullbear]

After playing immortal: "Dont you guys have good credit score?"

[@SingleCab22R]

OOF

[@mudfack]

"Do you guys not have kidneys?"

[@BeastnHarlotDFO]

"The second i go above 10k, they win." They won when you spent a single dollar

[@user92714]

I'm not defending Diablo immortal, but people at the other end of the spectrum such as yourself aren't helping gamers either. Let me guess. You don't think any game deserves a single penny from you. All the hours of gaming experience in your entire life should be free of charge to you. No game developer should ever be paid a single dollar. Right? This is the kind of consumer mentality that gave birth to "Free to play" games in the first place. If there is a good game that you've enjoyed for hundreds of hours, of course it's worth $60-$100, maybe even more. You're just cheap or broke and it shows in your mentality. Now you get the kinds of games you deserve. Go play them for "free".

[@dgreatll]

@@user92714 "I'm not defending Diablo immortal... You're just cheap or broke..."

[@osmoze47300]

@@user92714 they won the second u spent money to improve your leveling or gear... its called P2W and a scam..

[@ManBung]

@@user92714 I don't mind paying for games, but you are just absurdly dull to think that a game like Diablo immortal should even exist with such practices, it does nothing but set back the industry

[@MrWabaki]

@@user92714 yeah and people like you are assuming thoughts on someone else, even thou what they said has nothing to do with your way of thinking over them.

[@emarskineel]

“Your death heals 2% of party’s health” That is the absolute worst effect I’ve ever seen. I love it.

[@TheTanelChannel]

Way to make me feel fucking worthless :D

[@Diopside.]

When I read that I burst into laughter, like who the fuck designed this shit?

[@SlippstersVideos]

Poor Krippy

[@Andrewf5251]

ye who the fuck even thought that effect would be any good . the fuck :D

[@jackmaney4276]

"Every player on this server gets 100,000 gold if you delete your account"

[@pillemcphilsen8529]

Way to go: From sexual predators to financial predators.

[@WorldofWarcraft260]

Shame on blizzard.Even made a meme about xd kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2HdmnWNlp10eZI

[@AStrangeWindmill]

Oh, don't worry; They're still sexual predators as well.

[@tedjomuljono3052]

@@AStrangeWindmill and they were financial predators not just recently either

[@TheGabriel1351]

Predators all the way baby!

[@simaocouto8106]

Based

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

" Diablo Immortal earns almost £20m in just two weeks " You get the gaming industry you deserve.

[@carlost856]

Lol that's a pitiful return for a live service game. Maybe gamers are finally waking up.

[@lcmiracle]

Just goes to show that whales are all that matters

[@Jhhuhhhytf8]

@@carlost856 lol look at the game, must've costed dog ass to make. easy hustle

[@carlost856]

@@Jhhuhhhytf8 a puzzle or gacha game will cost even less to make.

[@carlost856]

@Zack Smith please, gacha games are culpable of all of this to an insane amount.

[@TheFatTonny]

I just love how in Elden Ring - streamers got a death counter on the screen. In Diablo Immortal - streamers got a spending counter on the screen. :D

[@ffxiisucks]

I played Genshin impact for 5 months straight and didn't spend any money at all. More people should feel proud for not giving in.

[@VesperAegis]

Just a brief summary: You don't have to play every game until the very very end. Play a game a little bit, get bored, move on to a new game or thing like regular human beings. Frankly, there's a lot out there. Problem solved, zero money spent on Diablo Immortal.

[@ffxiisucks]

@@VesperAegis That's a very narrow viewpoint that doesn't reflect current gaming. The sole appeal of many games is how they keep growing and evolving over the years.

[@ghosthunter0950]

@@ffxiisucks so what happened after those 5 months?

[@ghosthunter0950]

@@VesperAegis that's a pretty shit argument. that's like telling people "just don't get addicted to heroine" obviously most aren't going to. but then normalize taking heroine what do you think is gonna happen?

[@Visbokaal]

I was a bit annoyed when they announced the gaming not being released in my country (Netherlands). I can now say I feel totally fine about it. Let's make this a turning point.

[@samve8336]

Belgium here and I feel the same! Super happy I am spared from this dumpster fire!

[@C42ST3N]

@@samve8336 germany here, we can play the game but i don´t give a damn f*** for this cash grab. It is insane.

[@samve8336]

@@C42ST3N I hope a lot more countries follow so they understand what they created.

[@C42ST3N]

@@samve8336 I hope so too and declare this as gamble. Its a mess

[@MasticinaAkicta]

Those local laws they apply really working magic right. Can't play it either, but if I see what a mess it is, I am blessed indeed.

[@JBrander]

"Your death heals party members for 2% of their life" That's probably the most depressing and unintentional (or intentional) "F*ck you, you worthless trash" description of a buff. And the fact that it's on a rare or legendary gear adds more insult.

[@snart2195]

"The second I have to go beyond $10k, they win." Yeah...THAT'S when they win

[@JayTohab]

🙄 yeah

[@BattousaiHBr]

last i checked yesterday he was already over 17k

[@ffxiisucks]

@@BattousaiHBr Last time anyone checked he was already an useful idiot.

[@satzbau9185]

@@BattousaiHBr That fuckin guy's gonna pay off the whole development team lel

[@BattousaiHBr]

@@satzbau9185 the journey is finished, he got it at 24.95k NZ$, which is about 15k USD. he then destroyed it and uninstalled.

[@Woolie]

Quin69: "an EMPOWERED battle pass?! WHAT THE F-" $10k spent later: 🤡

[@Doot-Doot]

Wild woolie pogchamp i was here

[@killermurad5933]

Why did he spend that much?

[@panzergott5622]

Haha this game is so bad and predatory. Absolutely disgusting Blizzard! Noone should support this game! Let me just pump thousands of dollars into it to let Blizzard know how much I dont like this game. Fuck streamers. I didnt think someone could be dumber then Asmongold but here we are.

[@Akispark]

Can't play mechanics on FFXIV but plays the credit card combo to perfection.

[@celestesoranno7702]

@@hellatze based

[@NinjapowerMS]

It's painful seeing these guys paying a ton of money on this game. They're part of the problem.

[@KUNAIfever]

all of them are for spite and then theres quin69

[@nearlydead7510]

@@KUNAIfever still agitates the viewers to spend money on it, no matter how you want to excuse it.

[@pancakekidgaming8273]

@@nearlydead7510 watching a streamer spend $100 and make no progress, "agitates" spending from viewers? For this particular game, I feel like it dissuades viewers.

[@nearlydead7510]

@@pancakekidgaming8273 yes, it does. viewers see him spending money and some will do it too. that is what happens, because they will also treat it like a joke. like it's funny to spend money on a cash grab mobile game. or they just simp for their favourite streamer and want to belong. either way, those streamers talking about the game and playing it and spending tons of money on it like they do, showing this to hundred thousands of viewers, is only benefitting blizzard in the end.

[@reteplimy1]

They ARE the problem. They game cease to exist if people stop buying. Really.

[@Yorashy]

This game is so soul crushing that even wyatt cheng aged 15 years in the last 4 years.

[@kevinmclarkey621]

It must be so stressful being blizzard's scapegoat

[@notiaproast1386]

@@kevinmclarkey621 nah the evil stardba is living a great life, being rich, while the plebs keep feeding him and blizzard with hard earned money..

[@ImSofaKingGood]

Poetic that a game called Diablo has people selling their souls.

[@CRuduxypegg]

@@ogge9304 Can't sell what he never had.

[@GothPaoki]

He ain't a victim. He's a scumbag

[@suakeli]

Asmongold had spent $349 on Diablo Immortal already. Let's see what else that money could buy: - Red Dead Redemption 2: $60 - Witcher 3: $30 - Doom Eternal: $40 - Crusader Kings 3: $50 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps: $30 - Cyberpunk 2077: $60 - Hitman 3: $60 - Spelunky 2: $20 That's 8 games that will provide hundreds of hours of fun. If you play more indie games and wait for sales you can easily get 2x, 3x or 4x more games with that amount of money. I honestly don't understand why anyone would waste their money on this crap.

[@christianbethel]

Cyberpunk 2077 had a disastrous launch; I'd play Metal Gear Solid V instead.

[@Aaron-ui9tj]

I’ve played it a bit on my iPad, and really haven’t felt the need to buy anything. I just play alone though so maybe there is more of a push when grouping up?

[@supersaiyangandhi4481]

True true And actually support the devs that deserve it!

[@Aurelioris]

People are addicted to gambling. Phone games are the worst because of that. That's why the outrage

[@Andrewf5251]

or i can just save my money and download from torrent games like max payne 1 , mafia 1 , dragon age origins , fallout new vegas , kotor 1 , heroes 3 ... and just not waste my money for modern pay2win crap . i am just saying .

[@Ebb0Productions]

_“Your death heals 2% of party’s health”_ so my life is worth half a fucking band-aid

[@protectwhatisours6895]

That generous

[@OmegaZyion]

"We've only spent $347 so far." That's only the equivalent of 5 AAA games to upgrade one character. Money well spent.

[@WarbossFraka]

To be fair, he likely made that much or more from that stream.

[@Sector9Prime]

@@WarbossFraka Dude nobody is debating the fact he has disposable income because he's a loser who gets paid to sit home all day. It's the fact he spends that much on a video game that 90% of people knew would be monetized. He's supporting the system he claims to be against while sucking ad revenue and funds from viewers. These viewers also may go out and do the same thing because some people have no self control. You know what he should of done against this predatory game? Not played it. Not to mention spend hundreds of dollars on it. Just because he collects money and can afford it doesn't mean what he's doing is right. I'm not sure how that concept is lost on so many people these days.

[@holysparkbatman]

@@Sector9Prime yeah but that doesn’t make people feel good when their elbows are covered in slobber watching that blight on gaming play.

[@mrsanguini5819]

@@Sector9Prime Conversely, by playing it and showing how BS the monetization is, many people would be inclined to NOT play the game, causing a much bigger loss to Blizzard than they would gain from 1 semi-whale shelling out $500. Though I do still think you can do that without actually playing and paying for the game, some people just wanna see how far it goes out of morbid curiosity. So long as they’re encouraging viewers not to as well, I don’t think it’s huge problem imo.

[@v1ze__]

$347 dollars is about 1735 in my currency, with that much money you can buy about 9 triple AAA on steam or even a new ps4

[@franekfranek4741]

Imagine living in this world, where you can do/buy so many exciting and interesting things with money but you decide to whale in a mobile game

[@daggermouth4695]

Failed abortions is what these people are. They perpetuate this behaviour

[@SmokeyDaBoss420]

can buy girls cheaper than this game :|

[@doggyYE]

i dont think youre rich enough to understand (neither am i)

[@infinity7397]

If you're talking about asmongold and quin, I think what they did was good and bad. The bad, obviously, is giving money to blizzard. The good being that many people will never ever give blizz their money now, realizing what a third-rate, cash grab company they have become that even after spending 10k, you're still not fully decked out. That 10k spent has engraved that into my brain.

[@thathandsomedevil0828]

First world problems.

[@thelordelric8424]

6:00 I was expecting the gem crafting system to be one craft per day. It being every 1 and a half weeks leaves me speechless.

[@benzlover55]

It's outrageous.

[@jakubkemel1911]

even 1 per day is pure bs

[@chainsawplayin]

then you could get a legendary gem once in 5 years! do you guys not live 900 years????

[@Amatsuichi]

I've lost all hope for Diablo 4 now

[@coth5250]

Even if it will happen, it'll be dead on arrival

[@mariodroid7]

@@coth5250 Diablo what?

[@Andy_Rose90]

I've never had hope in Diablo 4. Basically every creative voice at Blizzard that matters left the company years ago.

[@roberonin7400]

we have to let diablo go sadly !

[@gervasiorossini9197]

Dont be surprise if this game is diablo 4

[@TheTanelChannel]

After just a few weeks and -25K NZD spent, Quon69 finally got his 5\5 star gem!

[@3takoyakis]

they should know that diablo immortal _simulator_ exist and could use imaginary money to get imaginary gems instead using IRL money

[@lifeloverNorris]

When Crowbcat has left us behind, Crowbcat at home is here to save the day.

[@TheTanelChannel]

Its something :D

[@jinleng74]

Blizzard should just change their motto from "Every voice matters" to "(Only) Investors voice matters".

[@Wakka9000]

Every voice matters, unlike suicides

[@Aggrofool]

Investor is Microsoft

[@lukeluckynblue1873]

they should rebrand rename and sell their IP to some other company cause their...we makinggames for gamers is no longer true

[@jinleng74]

@@Aggrofool perhaps I should have used shareholders instead of investors

[@MarkMiller304]

*Every dollar matters

[@Arcian]

I've spent 0$ on this game and I still feel robbed.

[@soul-software-survivor]

I died when David Attenborough started talking LOL

[@louisdobosenski5989]

Same here. I almost fell out of my chair laughing while simultaneously becoming more enraged at the same time. However, that part was internet gold.

[@ambientfuel4264]

yeah that was absolute perfection! lmao.

[@ILoveGrilledCheese]

Great game, autoattack everything to death and swipe your card when you hit a fabricated progress wall.

[@kushking949]

Sorry you got sick from touching sticks with men and got sick

[@korana6308]

capitalistic western world in a nutshell

[@CivilizedWasteland]

@@korana6308 reddit

[@qwormuli77]

@@korana6308 This was co-developed by and aimed for the Chinese market.

[@Herkan97]

@@korana6308 These types of mobile games started in Asia and from what I can tell are very popular there, no idea where you get the western part from. It's only now that Western companies are getting into it properly with whale games or whatever you want to call them. I guess Farmville could be considered one of them, but I've never seen anything about it that stands out, seems like a more normal-pointless mobile game, or desktop game turned mobile, I don't know. Still, some or many of them make more proper mobile games like CoD, Apex Legends and Battlefield. I'm not sure about the CoD one though, I tried it and more than half the players seemed like bots. Maybe it's just filled with 5 year olds. There are also PC games ported to mobile like Terraria, that work very similarly to their PC versions. Whenever I see anyone having spent a lot of money on a mobile game, it's almost always a Chinese dude. Some Japanese and Korean ones sprinkled in IIRC. I assume the other Asian countries either are too poor to gamble like that or too unknown to reach global articles. Not that I'm often reading about gambling and such, but I saw many mobile games randomly clicking through the play store on PC this one time. Same time I looked up those two games I had ads for, really weird ads eventually. I was about to write that I forgot both of them, but I'm certain one is "Hero Wars". I finally stopped getting it maybe 2 months ago, sometimes it's like KZbin can properly show you ads and other times it gets stuck on this one thing for 2 years. Hero Wars and Hello Fresh have been these long-lasting ads. If I've already seen an ad once, why do I want to see it again? If I was given more variety, I have a higher chance to come across something I would never click on, but maybe would look up 3 years from now. A lot of people seem to play mobile games, it's uncommon for any given game to have less than 10k reviews, many have over a million. I still don't know what there is to do in these games, they're not necessarily all gambling games, but they all seem to have similarly pointless gameplay to them. There are also pervert games, where you seem to "collect" women, busty ones mostly and if catering to pedos, little girls too. Azur Lane was one that I saw on my front page for a while, I guess because I never properly used the store, so it didn't know what to update into. It eventually updated and Azur Lane is no longer there, but it took what feels like 3 years for it to do so. I just use the play store to update already installed programs. What am I supposed to do in the play store but update stuff like the bank app and once a year the tax app I guess. I have a crossword thing or whatever you can call it, but after a few minutes it was giving me the same words in different locations, so I quit. Not much variety there, I would've eventually been able to get through it by just using letters from words in the past. Felt like it was 25 words chosen and placed in different spots. Memorise those 25 words and the game is the same. Even with PC-like games such as Terraria, I just question..if it's on PC, why not play it there? Why go outside and end up staring at the phone.

[@TiMERZ]

Where *Crowbcat* Go? When the world need him the most!

[@redryan20000]

Wyatt Cheng looks like he's on the verge of crying in that interview.

[@hainsay]

Good

[@dwrabauke]

he looks like a person who knows that their interviewpartner knows they're lying. "will there be microtransactions" "AhaHahAhaHAha..." *you know I can't answer that please k*ll me*

[@andermolk2428]

he should have

[@karlgustav999]

All the way to the bank

[@garibaldibritann1240]

I'm just sorry to him

[@RandalReid]

Turns out the off-season April Fool's joke was Blizzard laughing at their player base on the way to the bank

[@DreamCatcher507]

Yeah i heard they already made 6mil off it.

[@AppleBiscuits]

So off-season that it lasted 4 years impressive efficiency

[@hayato1886]

@@DreamCatcher507 I've heard already over 10 mil now. Absolutely insane that people are even playing it

[@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon]

@@hayato1886 Gamers have the industry they deserve...

[@bloopahVIII]

seeing asmongold spend hundreds and then reacting to other videos with exaggerated expressions in his thumbnails fills me with the urge to shave all of his skin with a rusty razor blade

[@vladimir8365]

They made slot machine for gaming addicts. The only thing people should be shocked at, this is legal.

[@WorldofWarcraft260]

Its blizzard nowadays sadly for us. From long term perspective now to short term results(fast money). kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2HdmnWNlp10eZI

[@probablyilliterate]

@Riorozen L opinion. Regulation is needed because companies are shameless.

[@abnnizzy]

@@probablyilliterate Not L at all. People want the government to make those regulations, the government is even more shameless than those companies. When they start to take what they think is their due, you'll be fucked either way, or even more fucked. This sort of thing is supposed to sort itself out. Everyone has the power to stop it by boycoting those companies and stop buying what they're selling, stop playing their games. Its the only way for the situation to be beneficial to the players.

[@probablyilliterate]

@@abnnizzy a boycott won't work when there's whales who will pay regardless. If money weren't in politics, this would be a different story.

[@hunlepto2239]

@@abnnizzy But you can't just stop whales from spending on the game if there's actually 0 limit for how much you can spend on the game. If they weekly donate 1k+ dollars, the game is already a success and they don't have to do shit. Even if it's just simply the whales playing, they still spend on the game like crazy.

[@malohn2068]

"lets do it, lets pull the trigger" yeah, and kill what little left of Blizzard there is to love.

[@aelix56]

What is there to love? Do they let you borrow the cosby room on weekends? lmao

[@kevinmclarkey621]

Blizz was already dead tho, he's just following exec orders. Gamers don't run blizzard, money does

[@solemnace]

We as a community say, after taking Blizzard out in the back, and Old Yeller it.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

nah that will happen with Diablo 4 and it's heavy pay to win monetization.

[@Al-kd6hv]

Me: “I don’t want to do cocaine” Them: “Do you guys not have noses?”

[@jjtubens]

When they said "Don't you guys have phone?" What they really meant was: "Don't you guys have a credit card?"

[@Aggrofool]

Nah it's "Don't you guys have a trust fund?"

[@jdogzerosilverblade299]

nah its do you want to hate us. cuz we dont want your trust anymore.

[@ZzolllozZ]

Blizzard : " dou guys have not loans ?"

[@hunlepto2239]

The fact they're spending so much money on Diablo Immortal while shitting on the game makes these players look like actual clowns. Imagine being the literal biggest supporters of what you hate without anyone forcing you to do it.

[@hainsay]

Think of the content though /s

[@CodeeXD]

They make back more in their streams and its a good way to show off just how insane the micro transactions are so you don't waste your money since most of these streamers have expendable income

[@hunlepto2239]

@@CodeeXD They do, but nevertheless, the money will still flow to Blizzard, basically supporting their business plan. And basically 5k+ dollars are not a small amount.

[@machdude3366]

@@hunlepto2239 It is in the long run if it successfully kills profits. The development for the game still costs a fairly hefty amount so it is about figuring out how long it takes for the game to die out. A mark of a good gacha game is longevity and the model for Diablo immortal... doesn't seem to show that. Heavy monetization aside, it doesn't lend itself well to long term sustainability, only short term gain.

[@trashaccount5106]

Oh boy dont you ever check out the World of Warcraft forums lol

[@realjosephanthony]

The scene from Full Metal Jacket where they hold the guy down and everyone beats him with soap. That's what everyone in Blizzard needs right now. Including the coffee getting 19 year old intern.

[@luckydannumber2]

"We asked everyone what was going on, the game directors, the board moderators, the CEOS, Bobby Kotick, J Barack Allens, my fellow teammates, other programmers and teams in Blizzard and Activision and also the Janitor staff and Taxi Drivers, we have asked everyone about Diablo Immoral and what they think about and they gave excellent to good feedback I don't know who on earth we could of missed we must have been just unlucky !!!"

[@dwrabauke]

They basically just asked around in their own disgusting filthy "greedy mofo" echochamber. Its' like asking a bank to regulate themselves. "We could not find any evidence of fraud or insider trade". Yeah right.

[@elenoe8]

Well, they asked all their "customers". You don't ask children what they want to do in the school. Neither you ask cows about steak recipes :P

[@rageofheaven]

"We spent a lot of time talking to ourselves to figure out where we went wrong. Turns out we didnt. It was players fault."

[@iododendron3416]

'Then we had a look at our wallets and concluded the fault was not with us.'

[@VesperAegis]

3:23 Man so mad he wants into the anime poster

[@Ezekiel_Kleyer]

I do not feel any pity for the people who spent even a single $ or € on this game. You guys are the reason the companies became so greedy.

[@marioquinoz7199]

Exactly i almost don't even blame blizzard its like these idiots are giving their money away for next to nothing who could blame blizzard for wanting to get in on that

[@realishak]

I spent 5$ I had on google play store credit from surveys and feel guilty about it

[@dontwilson]

And they really think they’re doing it for a cause 😭

[@mranderson4469]

Well said. They keep complaining but theyre still buying dumb hypocrites.

[@billytringuyen1]

people crying about p2w and then spend thousands on it lol

[@kongman536]

Cheng: "Neteast is a diablo fan." Netease is a company, not a person. They can't be a "diablo fan."

[@LV426Survivor]

They're basically a company that exists to get their hand into your wallet. The games that do get designed under them are not games first monetization later, its the opposite. And I see this with immortal.

[@Flackon]

He's referring to the team of developers working at Netease, not to the corporation as an entity

[@czaczaczar]

Well then that explains both companies are shit.

[@lrmcatspaw1]

"yet whales, have not always enjoyed such freedom" Fucking gold.

[@bloopahVIII]

asmon gold

[@sanquineo]

MrLlama's face sums it up so good, nothing else matters.

[@Quitarstudent]

this game is basically hand crafted for asian market, asians love p2w shit and are willing to spend ton of money to have an leverage against other players to compensate for their uncomplished lives

[@fatfreddyscoat7564]

1:45 “We really spent a lot of time trying to understand where we went wrong… we spent a lot of time talking to each other” Dude, you KNOW where you went wrong from the infamous first announcement: mobile game, no PC version, and then micro transactions. It really isn’t hard.

[@martinandersen1251]

But apparently its JUST A TINY BIT TOO immoral to admit that you are milking people with gambling addictions.

[@3takoyakis]

oh, PC ver soon btw which NOONE WOULD WANT IT considering how shitty the game is but at least now you know it and you could hype for it

[@CaioTrinchinato]

Do you know where is this footage from?

[@EIGHT88888]

Right after this video I got an ad for Diablo immortal lol

[@darkadia6520]

The random clips of Wyatt talking out of his ass is funny lol

[@TheTanelChannel]

I want his dealers phone number

[@autothrust330]

1:25 is still the best gaming quote that will live on forever.

[@PuchimonExtreme]

If this happens in every video game, I'll convert myself to a workaholic.

[@zerg113]

You forgot the part where they litterally intentionally trick you with 3 kinds of crests. By hiding one of them. The package and f2p elder crests are bound gems.

[@DougiePlaysSoccer]

Someone should sue, no joke

[@trial_with_an_error9687]

@@DougiePlaysSoccer Can't they most likely hid some legal fuckery in the ToS about not being legally responsible once you agree.

[@FeedMeSalt]

@@trial_with_an_error9687 doesn't matter. Just because it's in a contract doesn't make it legally binding. And even when it technically is on the consumer, we in the west have *reasonable expectation* laws. They could very well get class actioned.

[@PaRappa_the_Rapper]

@@FeedMeSalt No they couldn't, they're beyond scummy but there's 0 legal grounds for anything. there's nothing legally wrong with what they're doing, it's just shady as fuck. We just need stricter laws on loot boxes and mobile gambling like belgium

[@nickp8041]

@@PaRappa_the_Rapper In the US? Good luck dude half the country is trying to re-elect an aspiring dictator lmao

[@trollparadox9371]

Wow. I waited 10 years for the next Diablo game. 10 years. And our waiting was rewarded with this. This is, truly, jaw dropping. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something this bad ever. I might just never play a blizzard game again. Like that’s how enraged I feel and how terrible this is.

[@Juiccy]

Why wait for diablo when there's PoE lmao

[@mikeymaiku]

@@Juiccy you think they didnt base thier monetization off of PoE? lol

[@GormanVidal]

@@mikeymaiku PoE is only stash tabs and cosmetics. Diablo Immortal is on a whole different level come on

[@randar1969]

@@GormanVidal indeed in Poe you get a limited amount of stash tabs this will allow you to judge the game for a few days and see if it's worth investing in it. If you play it for years and spent like 10 dollars every 3 months you will be done buying them soon enough. From there out it's just buying cosmetics to give money to the makers to make it a better game if you wish to do so there is no obligation.

[@r.jillian1643]

See you soon on diablo iv

[@lasagna187]

that asian dude looks like he has aged one hundred years since the "do you guys not have phones?" debacle

[@scales7116]

More people need to watch this, Blizzard died on July 9 2008 sold their soul to Activision

[@pogtuber5146]

Except Diablo 3 was a great game, and they quickly took the cash auction house out of the game and fixed the loot balance in order to make good with all the players they pissed off. This bullshit though... unacceptable.

[@Luca48882]

@@pogtuber5146 No it was so dogshit that an indie company working from their fcking garage made a 100x times better game called path of exile that threw d3 into the garbage can so fast blizzard completely stopped supporting it

[@tuxtron1025]

@@pogtuber5146 "quickly took out", you mean after a year? I wouldn't be surprised if they had people making alts to profilt even more selling spawned gear to the average gamer.

[@scales7116]

@@pogtuber5146 Agreed, I enjoyed D3 after the changes and let's hope D4 will not look anything like this. I am a Diablo fan and pains me to see what they've done to Diablo Immortal

[@pogtuber5146]

@@tuxtron1025 10 months is a pretty quick turnaround for not only ripping an entire game feature out but introducing an entirely new loot system

[@VitchAndVorty]

That Sir David's voice was the best thing in this whole meme video.

[@TrickyJebus]

"But the game is free. You dont have to pay anything" "Im not paying anything for the game and im having fun therefore its a good game"

[@shooby9496]

"they come with a set of assumptions about what a mobile game can be, and I kinda want to challenge those assumptions." That definitely, DEFINITELY did not work.

[@X1erra]

They went the opposite of challenging those assumptions, they embraced it with open arms... and legs! xD

[@DeaZz]

i still like the "we make it mobile so it reaches everyone" but putting the requirements so high that many peoply cant even install it on mobile

[@RusticHighman]

i play on pc and can run monster hunter world, elden ring, etc etc tons of games just fine and this game just runs like shit

[@ecyor0]

When your game is so bad that Quin's usual tantrums seem like a proportionate response, you know you've fucked up.

[@unlimitedsylasworks6445]

My man give yourself more credit. You might be a Crowbcat at home, but this was godlike.

[@LycielleHerself]

It's so ironic! xD Loving this video, it expresses everything I could ever thought about that strage "game".

[@NoLongerVoid]

"Is this an out of season April Fool's joke?"

[@spreadingdatruth1986]

Love the homage to Crowbcat. You did a great job dude, keep it up!

[@pr1m3vil3]

When you think less about it, it feels more like this is a psychological documentary video about a nightmare called Diablo Immortal. As players are calling it now 10 days later, it’s a scamware

[@scar445]

i like calling it cashware

[@ethanstump]

@@scar445 that implies, that like currency, it has value. it doesn't.

[@scar445]

@@ethanstump its a play on the "cashgrab" title

[@ethanstump]

@@scar445 k, i see it. then wouldn't cashgrabware indicate it more accurately? but then it's pretty unwieldy as a term. scamware is less ambiguous while still being short.

[@scar445]

@@ethanstump yeah, but it implies a scam of any sort. Cashware jumps straight to the point.

[@TheVioletBunny]

“Do you guys not have brains”

[@luckyducky7819]

I hate all these guys saying "Diablo Immortal is LITERALLY evil! Blizzard should not be doing this!" yet they still spend hundreds of dollars on the game which directly incentivizes Blizzard to keep doing this.

[@thedude1866]

Blizzard would love for nothing more than this game to be not talked about whatsoever. Just completely uncontroversial. The few thousands these guys are spending to demonstrate what a predatory design this game has, is a drop in the bucket to the millions upon millions of dollars that Blizzard is raking in, and the absolute billions per year that the mobile game industry is already making. But what spending that money allows them to do is start up a public controversy similar to what we had with Battlefront 2, which ultimately lead to Belgium and the Netherlands passing bills that outlaw this kind of monetisation. That's also why Diablo Immortal isn't playable in those countries unless you're on a VPN. Asmongold ended up spending like $2200 on Diablo Immortal to show us how fucking ridiculous it is. If that money goes towards making more countries aware of this and passing laws like Belgium and the Netherlands did, that shrinks the exploitable market even further and eventually forces this predatory monetisation out of games entirely.

[@dontknow3949]

UYDHUHDHURHUUHYURRRDHURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR LETS MAKE ACTIVISION RICH TO SHOW EVERYUONE HOW BAD DIS HERE GAME BE DA REAL SMART ONEZ ARE TGE BEONES WHO SPENT 9054389854798978342789 TO SHOW US JUST HOW BAD THIS CRAP IZZZZ CAUSE APPARENTLY YOU CANT JUST FUCKING *SEEEEEEEEEEE* THAT BY KNOWING ITS A MOBILE GAME AND THEN FUCKING LOOKING AT THE MENU. BRAIN. DAMAGED. FANBASE.

[@aolvs1950]

that 99 cents is just a way for you to register your cc.

[@TheTanelChannel]

Yyyupp! Special tactics

[@littlepickle8773]

it just blew my mind that I have spent 7 minutes of my adult life watching other adult men going through such intense emotions whilst staring into the screen, rearranging pixels and clicking buttons.

[@zahar027]

Blizzard: we really need to understand what went wrong Also blizzard: talking to ourselves EXACTLY. You're already wrong at first step

[@MrFour4th]

I like those streamers are like "this is outrageous!!" and also "Let's see how much we can spend on this game" , meanwhile Blizzard's higher ups are chilling on a pool in their yacht on a bigger pool in a bigger yacht shopping for a bigger pool

[@hehhehheh4588]

This is the real life version of all the "What if EA had made Elden Ring?" parody videos.

[@savagepete8258]

They went very quickly from "do You guys not have phones" to "do You guys not have credit cards" Blizzard was bad already but this is it. I'm really not looking forward to Diablo 4. It will be a giant pay to win fest for pc.

[@someguy9307]

Yeah it'll be the first Diablo game I haven't bought and beaten but at this point I feel like buying their games and providing them sales is like buying from North Korea. At this point just retire the series, games, and characters I grew up loving. Your terrible company has ruined them.

[@holysparkbatman]

@@someguy9307 3 killed the story immortal killed the gameplay and 4 will probably be both.

[@adrieanhopkins9795]

@@holysparkbatman how 3 killed the story? I was thinking of getting it, is it not worth it? I only played until diablo 2: resurrected and have not played 3 yet.

[@holysparkbatman]

@@adrieanhopkins9795 3 is a fantastic game as far as just gameplay goes but the story is not that great. I’d recommend playing it but going forward after you beat it you’ll see why 4 is gonna be a hard game to sell based on the story which is half the game when it comes to Diablo. If you just want a arpg get grim dawn it’s better than what blizzard could make now.

[@justinross9833]

Gotta hand it to Blizzard, the only company who can't even beat the success of their own classic games... This game and D4 may just as well be another nail in the coffin.

[@crimsiden]

Na man that club has plenty of members: bioware, bethesda( still milking a 2011 title), and ubisoft

[@garaktartv3647]

The fact that this made a couple of millions in the first week is tragedy in itself

[@gustavohermandio1440]

wow, this was so entertaining. ty for this who ever you are

[@gustavohermandio1440]

i cracked of laughter at 2:00

[@THE16THPHANTOM]

"Your death heals 2% of party’s health" must be like a game developers equivalent of telling you to go [insert censored Emo word here] yourself.

[@RealityReimagined]

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time - thank you! Wonderful video!

[@cajk2932]

This video is actually on Crowbcat's level.. well done man

[@saltamuertosturambar4050]

"In a gambling mood?" ~ Gwennen, the Gambler

[@TheTanelChannel]

Still no Mageblood :(

[@Mayhamsdead]

> tfw no MageBlood > tfw no Headhunter > tfw game is made by Kiwis enslaved by the Chinese Feelsgoodman.paytowin

[@jotairpontes]

Crowbcat at home... genius.

[@creatrixtrodler6659]

Been a Blizzard fan and player ever since Lost Vikings my heart sinks when i see what happened to my absolute favorite gaming company. But i guess everything in life ends so did the Blizzard we once knew and loved. All the OG devs are out of there anyway all that remains is Blizzard name and amazing memories i made playing so many of their games and having so much fun.

[@samuraikenji22]

Dude, great video editing. When maxing a character cost 100000$ and more, even the game is fun and all, we would be shooting in the foot of all future gamers to support that crap. Next 5 years will be a million to cap a character? Gamers should gives each other heads up about those kind of practices, its not for our interest. More people hear of that crap, the more they should realise just how bad it is for future of gaming.

[@timelostgaming7789]

I mean to max out on runescape in like a month or two would cost you about 15k, and thats just getting skills to 99, getting them to 120 and then 200m max xp would be 8x the cost. Do we play games to just spend money on maxing day 1? There are plenty of ways to max out over time if you just...well idk play the game. (btw ive been playing runescape for years since 2003, and ive still yet to max xp on my main but I still find the game fun even knowing someone out there could spend 100k and finish it before me. And I know I am not the only one with that opinion.

[@Dar1usz]

Maxed characted and getting everything perfect like gems plus all maxed out activities. Let me know price of perfect gear in WoW or PoE.

[@TheTanelChannel]

Quon is 10k in for ONE SLOT.. and it is still not maxed :D Id say hes gonna need about half a million dollars, then theres some other stuff too and THEN he can finally start pushing paragon and challenge rifts to be a top player.

[@TheRealTrucido]

I think the killer is that you CANNOT get every item/gem in the game without paying thousands of dollars eventually. So yeah, there is literally no point to install this game.

[@backflipsaresweet]

@@timelostgaming7789 it's not required to spend even $1 in the game to level up fast. There's money making methods and random merching opportunities that can pay for your bonds and for fast skilling. I had multiple accounts for years and I've literally never given a dollar to RuneScape. I would just buy bonds in game and could easily max out i just don't want to spend months doing. Diablo immoral makes it impossible to have this type of progress

[@DaminionC]

he made his special operations game as revenge for laughing at him about us all not having cell phones

[@31Lucario]

Every single player who bought even the *800% Value package* deserves everything blizzard is doing to them.

[@Shelldamage]

This game for me is an indicator for idiocy. If you are reasonably and sane, you don't play it. If you are a moron, you play it...

[@Fliptheonly]

It's not really about that, the people who get caught up in this are the ones who are prone to addictive behaviour. For example, in people with adhd (like me), the brains dopamine regulation works differently, making us very likely to seek out dopamin inducing behaviour more than the average person. And this is exactly the type of person they are aiming at. Someone who will go into a tunnel vision when they really engage with something. Plus often times it's not grown men/women who fall for this, but kids and teens. At age 16 I had already spent about 2000€ on "free" games that I would never play today. It's just an immoral and manipulative business practice.

[@Shelldamage]

@@Fliptheonly Very interesting what you say, but in that case, Blizzard is a drug-dealer and should be handled in the same way!

[@DogmanDusttin]

One of the best edits I've seen on KZbin

[@lyricalfroge5219]

The saddest part is that the game underneath all the predatory monetization is actually pretty good. If it was a normal free to play game or even buy to play without the game actively trying to make you feel not welcome after about 40 levels it would be a good game. Nothing revolutionary (besides maybe on the mobile gaming market) but still decent. Now all we get is an unplayable cash-grab and a scary precedent for future free-to-play games.

[@edtazrael]

It would be good ... if Lost Ark didn't exist. The game is better in all aspects.

[@TheTanelChannel]

Exactly how I felt, I had a load of fun (Except the level gaps that felt like unfinished campaign) playing through to 60 and finishing the campaign. Now it feels that I will never really progress, yes I can grind paragon and get good legendaries but I get like 1... ONE Legendary Crest per week or two... thats insane if you count how many thousands of those Quin has already spent with money and never got a 5\5 star gem.. I think he didnt even get a 4\4 star..

[@Jaigarful]

Isn't it par for the course as far as mobile games and monetization? I have 0 interest in mobile games, but from what I've seen, they all try to leverage FOMO and addiction as hard as they can.

[@yan-amar]

"the game underneath all the predatory monetization is actually pretty good". Yet this game comes with monetization at its core. Make no mistake, everything "good" about this game has been put there with the intent of making you addicted and wanting to pay. I mean you gotta take the intent as a whole. There is no "other" game underneath. The whole game has been made, by a specific company, with a specific intent. Of course they won't release something that doesn't feel "good" to play.

[@luga7430]

@@edtazrael Well i prefer lost ark aswell but that’s not really the same genre. Sure it’s the same style but Diablo is not a mmorpg. What are you on about. What is your ilvl?

[@kreozello]

_'And it's only one hundred dollars?'_ line killed me, lol.

[@bodazaphfa]

Wyatt looks like Baby Huey.

[@andreipintea9333]

I really hope wyatt cheng doesn't touch a video game again for the rest of his life...

[@TycoonMK]

As long as there are fools to give money, they will make such games

[@rhblue7204]

Im glad crowbat has become almost like another genre of videos and I’m all for it

[@jagamundus1522]

Amazing video! I feel you bro… sadly people have already spent thousands of dollars on this which kind of vindicates Blizzard’s decision. This is how games are going to be now in the west (been that way in Asia for a while). It sucks but I think it’s unstoppable.

[@AvelierPlays]

Gaming used to be about having fun and the artistry of creating worlds and characters to enjoy them with. Now its just about putting barriers for payers in order to play, its no longer about fun, its about how much money they make you pay for.

[@ethanstump]

got some new's for you...... someone said the exact same thing in 21 February 1848.

[@Men_dra]

Damn, amazing video. Subscribed my man

[@WastingSanityGR]

I saw another video where they call out Quin for spending like 13k on the game. He tends to be a bad gamer, and a bit immoral so I am not surprised he threw his wallet at the game to make up for his deficiencies. He has a lot.

[@JWQweqOPDH]

I don't watch twitch or Diablo (I watch SC2), but I wouldn't be surprised if he was getting discounts for advertising the game. Undisclosed sponsorships are illegal in some countries, but crimes are committed every day.

[@JonathanJoestarJuicefest]

I swear...everyone other than actual whales to spent money in this game to "mock blizzard" or to "prove a point" needs to be lombotomized.

[@bupkis72]

I got a Diablo Immortal ad at the very end of the video

[@jabe6078]

Its so heartbreaking to hear this fan's questioning voice. Usually people are trying to be smartass or this smug "im funny" feeling. But them, theyre just hopeless and dissapointed.

[@Boris82]

I can't and won't feel bad for people that spent so much money on this gsme and have been disappointed.

[@jdogzerosilverblade299]

think asmon did it as a meme and joke cuz he has a ton of money. so he really didnt care. everyone else who does spend for a serious experience i do agree with you. they are morons. but asmon has so much money its a why not senario.

[@lawlestest]

@@jdogzerosilverblade299 he complains about it all the time, yet spends $$ for "shits and giggles". Literally contradicting himself and adding more fuel to the fire.

[@jdogzerosilverblade299]

@@lawlestest its called entertainment. and he didnt do it for a long time.

[@chicken1696]

the video quench my thirst for a new crowbcat video. thank you.

[@KhoaNguyen-qx8kx]

great content, keep up the good work