Asmongold Criticized for Deleting Posts About Diablo Immortal Microtransactions

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Asmongold is one of Twitch's top streamers for a lot of reasons, but his strong opinions on gambling livestreams and pay-to-win games are among fans' favorites. His views on complicated matters even helped Asmongold reach the top of Twitch in terms of hours viewed recently due to his coverage of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial. It's Asmongold's strong opinions that have created a new controversy, however, related to his recent streams playing Diablo Immortal.

Diablo Immortal is the latest controversial game release from Blizzard. It isn't just that Blizzard first told its PC-focused BlizzCon audience to get phones to play Diablo Immortal that is the problem, as the ARPG is also designed around intrusive microtransactions. Asmongold had talked to his Twitch audience about this quite a bit, acknowledging that the game had pay-to-win elements. However, when Asmongold ultimately started playing the game he initially spent nearly $350 on microtransactions, though the total is now over $600.

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While a number of people in Asmongold's audience weren't happy about the Twitch streamer's decision to spend so much money on pay-to-win elements of Diablo Immortal, the heart of the controversy followed. Someone made a post on Asmongold's Reddit to discuss him spending so much money on Diablo Immortal that was quite critical and negative. The mods decided to leave it up due to the community's strong feelings on the subject, only for Asmongold himself to remove the post.

If there's anything online communities dislike more than the support of pay-to-win game monetization, it's the perception of being «censored.» A thread on the LivestreamFail subreddit showing a video clip of Asmongold deleting a dozen