Our colleague Maurice Weber is a confirmed Diablo fan and is currently playing Diablo 4 extensively. Just in time for the release, he has started a new channel on YouTube and has directly addressed the most discussed point of the game: the shop.
Who is the journalist?
- Maurice Weber started as an editor at GameStar and is now a full-time streamer on Twitch with his own channel.
- One of his absolute favorite games is the Diablo series, where he especially relies on the Necromancer to have others fight for him.
- After the big talk about Diablo 4 before the release, our colleague is now discussing the topic that occupies him the most.
We are following the release of Diablo 4 live.
What does Maurice say? To begin with: the streamer is excited about Diablo 4 and enjoys playing. Those who watched over the weekend know that Maurice has played a lot and invested much time in the game.
Nevertheless, he sees some points of criticism, primarily regarding the shop. In a new video on YouTube, which even appeared in the general trends of the platform, he talks about monetization.
Diablo 4 offers a shop with absurdly expensive skins, and Maurice finds it somewhat sad that we have gotten used to this. 25 euros for a skin and 8 euros for a bundle with an emote is just too much.
However, he admits that all this is at least completely optional and Blizzard is keeping its promise not to introduce Pay2Win: “The shop does not ruin the game, and for that, one should be grateful these days.”
Maurice has started a new channel on YouTube, where videos with opinions and analyses of games will regularly appear. We have included the first video about the shop here for you:
“The shop is bad, and that’s kind of good”
The shop only offers cosmetic content, such as skins and emotes for your character, mount skins, or armor for horses. All of this is purely optional. Not only because it is not relevant for gameplay, but also because there are strong, free alternatives:
- Here’s how to find free skins and armor for your mount
- Diablo 4 sells cool armors in the shop, but the most beautiful ones you can get for free
Many fans are now also exchanging ideas on Reddit and say: the skins that can be obtained for free far outshine everything from the shop. In the different areas of Diablo 4, you also get thematically appropriate transmog.
While playing at the release on Twitch, Maurice also mentioned that it is somehow good if the shop is too expensive and not necessarily good. That way, fewer people would use it, and it might counteract the trend a bit – unlike me:
The only danger Maurice sees is with the battle pass and the seasons. Here, there should be the option to get gameplay-relevant rewards from the free path. However, how exactly that will work is still not definitively clear.
Even if the criticism may sound harsh, Diablo 4 is currently receiving extremely good feedback, both from Maurice and the majority of the community:
Thousands of fans love the co-op mode in Diablo 4: “It’s just so perfect”
