In the case of Diablo Immortal there's the usage

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It's not just evident in the use of money to buy items as well as gacha mechanics and information about drop rates in more difficult items. Gacha is the act of using game currency Diablo IV Gold, whether it's free or acquired via an in-game store, to acquire something random: pieces of equipment, in the case Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, or characters in the ever-popular (and ever-lasting) Fate/Grand Order or Genshin Impact.

In the case of Diablo Immortal there's the usage of legendary crests (which can be obtained or bought) to increase the odds of a five-star gem appearing in the dungeons at the end of the game. Although not all that traditional in its way of presenting (most gachas are played out by "rolling" on a limited-time banner) Players are playing with randomness in the same way. In many ways, the Diablo franchise has been working towards these sorts of mechanics since its beginnings according to a piece Maddy Myers wrote a few weeks in the past.

Diablo Immortal also, in no uncertain terms, pulls direct inspiration from an "feeding" technique that many Japanese, Korean, and Chinese mobile games have normalized for over 10 years. "Feeding" involves raising the attributes, stats, or rarity of an item by getting a duplicate of a drop. The duplicates then feed to an item with similar rarity to boost the overall stats for the item. Generally there are five copies as industry standard to max out a character or item.

My first exposure to "feeding" was in Fate/Grand Order, which was first launched by Japan in July of 2015. It made a profit of $4 billion dollars across the globe in 2019. To ensure that a character is the very best it can possibly be I needed duplicates of every character. When a particular advertisement came along, I ended up dropping over 300 euros to purchase the 5-star character I had coveted since the beginning of time. However, I wasn't able to get the duplicates I needed to be able to appreciate this character's full potential. The rates for the most popular 5-star characters currently hovering around 1%, it was not a surprise that I failed to obtain a duplicate of the character during my time playing the game (which I have since uninstalled). As of July 20, 2021, Fate/Grand Order was the seventh most popular mobile game to be sold all time. It was just next to Konami's Puzzle & Dragons, which is, as I mentioned, is also a gacha-based game cheap Diablo 4 Gold.

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