In the case of Diablo 2 Resurrected it's the use of Legendary Crests (which can be earned or purchased) to increase the odds of a gem that has a 5-star rating appearing in endgame dungeons. While not entirely conventional in its presentation (most gachas involve "rolling" in a limited-time banner) the players are engaged in the D2R Items same kind of randomness similar to. In many ways this, it's like the Diablo franchise was working towards these kinds of mechanics since its inception in the words of Maddy Myers wrote a few weeks back.

Diablo 2 Resurrected also, in simple terms, draws direct inspiration from an "feeding" method that a lot of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese mobile games have normalized for more than 10 years. "Feeding" means increasing the attributes, stats, or the rarity of an item by making duplicates of a drop. The duplicates then feed to an item of the same rarity in order to increase the stats overall of that item. Generally five copies are needed as the industry norm to max out a character or item.

My first introduction to "feeding" was through Fate/Grand Order, which was originally published to Japan in July of 2015 and grossed a total of $4 billion dollars worldwide in 2019. To ensure that a character is the very best it can be I needed duplicates of every character. If a certain banner came along I paid up to 300 euros in order for the character I'd coveted for years. However, I was unable to obtain the replicas I needed for this character's full potential. Since the rate for the top five-star characters hovering around one percent, it's no surprise I never managed to get a copy of the character during my time using the game (which I've since uninstalled). At the time of writing, Fate/Grand Order was the seventh most popular mobile game to be sold the past, and was placed in front of Konami's Puzzle and Dragons. The latter could be added to the list because it is also a gacha game.

During the GDC 2021 presentation, Genshin Impact developer Hoyoverse (previously Mihoyo) outright admitted that the way it created characters was focused on generating most money possible from its audiences. The Raiden Shogun and Kokomi character reruns in March 2022 alone netted the company over $33 million in revenues.

The event was immortalized in memes and mockery, much of which was rooted in disappointed fans' expectations: Fans attending BlizzCon 2018 were expecting "Diablo 2 Resurrected" announcements. But it also stemmed from a lingering stigma around mobile games in the West, where adoption of smartphones as gaming platforms is much slower than the rest of the world.

Since then, "Diablo 2 Resurrected" has increased its popularity, since alpha and beta tests showed the game was an incredibly full-on, timeless Diablo experience. (It was also a factor in the fact that Blizzard decided to bring this game on PC.) This Diablo series is one of the most influential in modern game design, and has a reputation for introducing gameplay loops that focus on acquiring randomized "loot" to help your character become more powerful. "Diablo 2," released in the last few months and updated, established the gameplay loop, whereas "Diablo 3," which Cheng was also working on, simplified and enhanced it.

While the events of 2018 were tough for Cheng and his team, Cheng said it only strengthened their determination to prove "Immortal" a game worthy to be part of the Diablo series, and its free-to-play launch on mobile devices brings the series to its largest possible audience to date. The game is scheduled to launch on June 2.

Cheng's enthusiasm about the project was evident in a recent interview. "I do believe that 'Diablo: Immortal' is going to alter a lot of people's views on what they think of as the mobile version of a game," Cheng told The Washington Post. "That was one of our goals since the beginning. Let's set the bar higher for what we can offer players from the mobile games."

"I have three kids and they're all teenagers, and they aren't able to make the cheap D2R Items same distinction between consoles, computers or mobile," Cheng said. "They enjoy gaming on a variety of platforms."