Blizzard is charging $30 for portal colors in Diablo 4, and players are having none of it.
From the recent confusion surrounding cosmetic items in Diablo 4's Lunar Awakening event, to what players deemed "mathematically the scummiest" coin reward Blizzard could have given battle pass purchasers in Season 1, the action RPG has had its fair share of controversy when it comes to paid content. Now players are once again up in arms, this time over portal colors that cost "almost half the price of the game."
Over on the Diablo 4 subreddit, user Mwatki20 sparked the conversation by posting an image of the Dark Pathways pack, which offers town portals in orange, green, purple, yellow, and blue, as well as 1000 Platinum for a considerable sum. "$20 for different color portals? LMFAO Blizz!" they write.
Amazingly, it's even worse than that. As another player points out, the bundle actually costs $29.99, making it "almost half the price of [Diablo 4]." Further down in the comments, user Cmionor rightly says that for the same sum, you could purchase Pocketpair's 'Pokemon with Guns' sensation: "You can get Palworld for this pricejust sayin"
Adding salt to the wound is the fact that each color is locked to a specific class. "It isn't even just that it costs money," says WhiteVoltage. "I wouldn't necessarily mind paying $5 or something for it. But $30 for a portal that I might get two classes' worth of use out of? Hell no. Hay-ell no." Rather than being outraged, Patient_Competion4 finds the situation downright laughable, saying, "The fact that they're CLASS LOCKED is hilarious to me lmfao."
As some other players point out, switching up your portal color is merely cosmetic and doesn't affect the gameplay in any way, so you can enjoy Diablo 4 just the same without having to cough up the additional dough. Though with so many voicing their dissatisfaction at the lofty price tag attached to items in what's already a full-price game, perhaps Blizzard will rethink how much it charges for these kinds of cosmetics in the future.
How is this a controversy?
*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*
Controversy solved.
Still there is something to be worried about. Horse armor was made fun of and yet Horse Armor became microtransactions of today. We should be concerned that the next step in big game publishers is to nickle and dime us for simple recolors.
I'm just copying the article title.Little late.
Still there is something to be worried about. Horse armor was made fun of and yet Horse Armor became microtransactions of today. We should be concerned that the next step in big game publishers is to nickle and dime us for simple recolors.
Why would anyone care what color their portal is? Why would blizzard think anyone would buy that?
Didnt someone spend over 20k on their mobile game?
I actually had quite a bit of fun with D4 at launch. That said i have no desire to go back to it anytime soon.
How is this a controversy?Kinda this. On the one hand, yes, that's an insane price for something so trivial.
*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*
Controversy solved.
That's pretty much the goal of these mtx riddled shit games, for ever 1,000 people who scoff and spend nothing there's one whale who drops a few grand. It's a pretty disgusting business model because it doesn't care at all about quality, someone somewhere will buy that trash. And when they stop, move on to the next game
Why would anyone care what color their portal is? Why would blizzard think anyone would buy that?
Why would anyone care what color their portal is? Why would blizzard think anyone would buy that?Same reason people bought horse armor dlc more money than brains
have they fixed this game yet