"Diablo Immortal will out-earn Diablo IV": Asmongold discusses Blizzard's successful monetization strategy in a recent stream

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While streaming on his alternate Twitch channel on November 5, Zack "Asmongold" reacted to how much money Diablo Immortal had made for Blizzard from a meme posted on his official subreddit, and made some predictions about the future of the franchise.

As a veteran MMO and RPG streamer, Zack has a reputation for being outspoken about his views and has been quite critical of Blizzard in the past. His opinions on Diablo Immortal have been quite varied and after seeing how much money the game had raked in for the developers and publishers, thought that it could eventually earn more money than the upcoming Diablo IV:

A veritable giant in the MMORPG genre, Asmongold was pleasantly surprised upon reading the headline that stated how much money Diablo Immortal had made over the course of five months:

Reading a comment from his chat, the Texan streamer theorized that it was quite a high number considering it had no "gambling," in contrast to Genshin Impact, the massively successful game from miHoYo:

The YouTube clip quoted a GameRant article that had some relevant comparisons to a similar game that he could not come up with on the spot. According to them, the mobile RPG title Raid: Shadow Legends earned around a whopping $370 million in the year 2021.

By comparison, Diablo Immortal reached the 300 million mark way quicker, given that it was released in June of this year. As for Genshin Impact, Forbes reported that the gacha game makes two billion dollars every year without taking into account the PC and console players. So, it's not even in the same ballpark.

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The meme that Asmongold was reacting to, however, was making fun of the large amounts of money he himself had poured into Diablo Immortal and the streamer reacted