There's a lot of potential earnings to be made in the mobile game market that is free to play which is why Blizzard's strategy seems to be effective Diablo 2 Resurrected Items. Diablo Immortal reportedly made upwards of $24 million during the first two weeks and that's with the game being banned in two European nations and delayed until the end of time for China (the game will arrive in various Asian markets on July 7). 

People seem more than willing to invest thousands of dollars for Diablo Immortal even if the goal is to make a point about how bad of an idea that is. One streamer who is a big hit spent one hundred dollars $16. 000 US dollars to acquire only one of Diablo's coveted 5-Star Legendary Gems, after which he immediately removed it and erase his player profile, and then delete the game in protest. 

In the case of Diablo Immortal just to make a point (as numerous streamers have done) may sound like a sin but it's nothing to do with the fact that a lot of these streamers have earnings to throw away. They can throw thousands of dollars into a game such as Diablo Immortal to capture the attention of their viewers before deleting their characters after they've become bored. 

The reality is the majority of players can pay just a few dollars on Diablo Immortal and play for just a few minutes, and continue on with their lives. However, for a tiny percentage of players with gambling and addiction problems that fall into the predatory systems and microtransactions like those found in Diablo Immortal and similar games, this kind of luxury isn't there. 

Those are the players who cannot afford to dump hundreds or thousands of dollars down the drain however, feel they must- and are in many ways encouraged to do so. They're the most affected by these kinds of mobile game practices, and of, which Diablo Immortal is a textbook example of. It's true that Diablo Immortal may be an economic success and that players are spending huge amounts of money in it doesn't change the fact that this game's monetization model is predatory buy D2R ladder items. Indeed, Diablo Immortal's performance in the financial arena further proves this point.