In Diablo 2 Resurrected "s case, there"s the usage of legendary crests (which can be bought or earned) to increase the chance of a five-star gem appearing in endgame dungeons. While it"s not completely traditional in its way of presenting (most gacha are performed through "rolling" on a time-limited banner) it is still playing randomness in a similar manner. In many ways D2R Items is the case that gamers are using the Diablo franchise was building towards these kinds of mechanics since its beginning as Maddy Myers wrote a few weeks in the past.
Diablo 2 Resurrected also, in clear terms, draws direct inspiration from a "feeding" method that Japanese, Korean, and Chinese mobile games have normalized for over a decade. "Feeding" is the process of increasing the stats, attributes, or rarity of an item , by receiving a duplicate drop. The duplicates are fed to an item of similar rarity, which increases the overall stats for the item. In general, five copies are required as a standard for maxing the character or item.
My first introduction to "feeding" was through Fate/Grand Order, which was first made available from Japan in July 2015 and grossed a total of $4 billion dollars around the world in 2019. To create a character that was the best it can possibly be I needed copies of each. And when a particular advertisement came along I spent upward of 300 euros to purchase the 5-star character that I had been looking for for years. But I didn"t get the identical copies I needed for this character"s full potential. The rates for the highest-rated 5-star characters in the range of one percent, it"s not a surprise that I failed to get a copy of the character when I was in the game (which I have since uninstalled). In July 2021, Fate/Grand Order was the seventh highest-grossing mobile game of all time, and was ranked after Konami"s Puzzle & Dragons, which may be of interest, since it is also a gacha-based game.
In a GDC 2021 talk, Genshin Impact developer Hoyoverse (previously Mihoyo) outright admitted that the way it created characters was to generate the highest amount of money from its audience. In the case of Raiden Shogun and Kokomi character reruns in March 2022 alone netted the company more than $33 million in revenue.
The moment was immortalized through humorous memes and mockery, the majority of which was rooted in disappointing expectations of the public: Fans who attended BlizzCon 2018 had hoped for "Diablo 2 Resurrected" announcements. However, it was also a result of buy D2R Items an unease about mobile games in the West, where adoption of smartphones as gaming platforms is much slower than the majority parts of the planet.
