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"You can get Palworld for this price"

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.

Its like the game is dead and they are hoping to squeeze any pennies left out of it that they still can.

Why would anyone care what color their portal is? Why would blizzard think anyone would buy that?

pathetic

It doesn't even matter if anyone buys it specifically.

People are still playing a blatantly unapologetic pay-to-win hyper monetized scam. Until people stop playing and paying into these systems it's going to persist.

How is this a controversy?

*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*

Controversy solved.

controversy?

thought no one plays this game anymore

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

How is this a controversy?

*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*

Controversy solved.

I'm just copying the article title.

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.

Tmaster148 posted...

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.

easy
no one play Diablo 4

oh wait

Tmaster148 posted...

I'm just copying the article title.

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.

Little late.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f95dce10.jpg

Zikten posted...

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?

Can you even consider that a microtransaction even horse armor is looking at this like Dude youre fucking this up for everyone

more like clown portal

LightHawKnight posted...

Didnt someone spend over 20k on their mobile game?

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

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.

Better than that FF7 deathbox in Apex Legends

solosnake posted...

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.

D4 was so much fun at launch, dropped off so fast.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

How is this a controversy?

*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*

Controversy solved.

Kinda this. On the one hand, yes, that's an insane price for something so trivial.

On the other, it's so trivial that who the fuck would care in the first place? Just ignore it and move on.

That said, have they fixed non-season mode yet to actually smooth the level progression and add things to do, like they promised a year ago?

MC_BatCommander posted...

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

And the thing is even if you don't spend money, the game was made worse for you just so they could sell these bonuses.

Zikten posted...

Why would anyone care what color their portal is? Why would blizzard think anyone would buy that?

The better question is why anyone would care if someone wants to spend $30 on it.

What exactly is the controversy? Company offers something that people can choose to buy and it has not impact on the underlying game. Omg!!!!!!!

It's good, but yeah, the game had a bigger drop-off than Diablo 3 did. Especially with that balance patch. Literally everyone I know stopped after that.

Also, the timing of Baldur's Gate 3 being close to both D4 and Starfield really threw a wrench in those games.

Remember, if you purchase this shit it's going to be a $60 portal color next time.

That's ridiculous

This is just the new standard pricing of Blizzard. Overwatch skins are pushing 100 dollars.

Their rapid fire "seasons", expansion plans, terrible itemization and the gratuitous monetization killed the game for me.

You should see some of the prices of the microtransactions in path of exile, I'm talking like $70 for a tiny pet and shit.

My favorite rebuttal when talking about overpriced skins was my latest "argument" on overwatch. Paraphrasing here, but when I said it was overpriced, I was hit back with they aren't because of research for perfect pricing, they sell less skins if they aren't expensive, im trolling and poor and Blizzard knows exactly what to do to land the perfect price.

have they fixed this game yet

Zikten posted...

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

That kind of absurd pricing is almost as irritating as people writing "articles" about Reddit comments.

LzOmega posted...

have they fixed this game yet

no

Just replaying 3. Don't have to be always online to play it.

Did Diablo 4 finally go full Diablo Immortal?