Diablo Immortal: Asmongold quits game, calls it "garbage"

Noted Twitch streamer Asmongold has quit Diablo Immortal and has explained exactly why.

The YouTube and Twitch star has over 1 million subscribers on the former platform and he has been playing the game since its release.

Diablo Immortal, of course, has come under heavy criticism for its aggressive monetisation and microtransactions.

The game, developed by Blizzard, actually has the developers’ lowest-ever Metacritic user score, with a score of just 0.5 from 4,875 ratings.

We have reported just how remarkably monetised the game is, with one streamer spending over £5,000 and failing to receive a single Legendary Gem, which is the best Gem one can receive in the game.

Asmongold has, naturally, criticised the monetisation in the game but he has also maintained that he is not actually quitting because of that.

He said that the game was a “predatory” example of pay-to-win games, which is littered with “enticing deals” that are intended to force people to spend money.

However, he maintains that the main reason he is quitting is because of the “garbage” gameplay.

As per his YouTube video, he said: “Diablo Immortal is garbage. It’s garbage with or without pay to win. They have put in no effort to make the game innovative, to change its design, or to make it anything more than what it was.

“It’s brought in hardly any new ideas except for the ideas that came from the monetization department. The fights themselves are one-dimensional garbage. The raid bosses are somehow even worse. The rifts are repetitive and not dynamic at all.”

Asmongold also claims that the developers have not made an attempt to truly innovate after the release of Diablo 3 in 2012, a decade ago.

He said: “We’ve gone from killing the end boss of an act to