Diablo Immortal Actually Requires Over $500,000 to Max Character

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Diablo Immortal is nothing short of one of the most controversial video games released in the industry's history. While it is true that plenty of games have released before it that use controversial microtransaction strategies in order to get players to invest money, Diablo Immortal takes these strategies to an exorbitant level.

The systems within the game are so bad that Diablo Immortal has been compared to other microtransaction nightmares like FIFA Ultimate Team or Star Wars Battlefront 2. The systems themselves wouldn't be a problem, except that several of them take extreme amounts of time without money, and with money they require potentially thousands of dollars.

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Perhaps the most extreme of these is the gem system in Diablo Immortal, specifically what it takes to acquire a 5-star gem in the game. Without an extreme case of good luck, it allegedly takes over $16,000 on average for a player to acquire a 5-star gem, and each character was thought to be able to hold six 5-star gems at one time. A Diablo Immortal gem slot machine can be used for players to calculate the total for themselves, corroborating the money required. However, a player may have recently found that the game's gem system actually goes much deeper and could therefore increase the amount of money required to max out a character by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Reddit user ShiftYourCarcass created a lengthy post that described how players had been fooled into thinking the already devastating number of $100,000 was necessary to fully max out a character's six legendary gems. In reality, ShiftYourCarcass believes the true number to be upwards of $540,000, and according to