: Game On: How Free2play games make money #IndiaNEWS #Columns By Aditya Deshbandhu A nuanced discussion into the brouhaha surrounding games such as Diablo Immortal. Last week saw the launch of Diablo

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Game On: How Free2play games make money #IndiaNEWS #Columns
By Aditya Deshbandhu
A nuanced discussion into the brouhaha surrounding games such as Diablo Immortal. Last week saw the launch of Diablo Immortal, an iconic franchise that embraced both free2play (F2P) and cross-platform gaming; a trend increasingly common across the gaming industry as most developers look at mobile and casual sites of play as a promised land.
As franchises like Mario, Pokémon, Diablo, Need for Speed, and Call of Duty have tried to forge their own unique ways of going mobile, with versions of games that serve as both free-to-access and revenue-generating platforms with Diablo Immortal’s extremely expensive loot-box and purchase mechanics the gaming industry is once again enveloped in an endless debate of what it costs players to be the best in an F2P game.
Players from across the world have raised concerns in overwhelming numbers about the exorbitant sums Immortal (approx. 100,000 USD) requires its players to spend if they desire to be the best, while at the same time the game’s makers have celebrated the 10 million download figure that the game has touched.
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