In Diablo 4, you can now buy skins for your portals, but Blizzard has overdone it with the price and annoyed the players.
What’s with the portals? When you use the fast travel in Diablo 4, you travel back and forth between the various waypoints using a portal. These portals are usually blue. However, Blizzard has now introduced a cosmetic package that contains skins for exactly these portals.
With the package, you get access to five different portals in different colors. However, these portals are each tied to a specific class.
- the green portal is for the necromancer
- the purple-pink portal is for the hunter
- the yellow portal is for the druid
- the blue portal is for the wizard
- the red portal is for the barbarian
The package costs 29.99 euros and includes not only the five portals but also 1,000 platinum, which is the premium currency of Diablo 4. For 1,000 platinum, you would have to pay 9.99 euros in the D4 shop if you wanted to buy the currency without portal skins.
Players complain about the prices of portal skins
What does the community say? The players of Diablo 4 have often complained about the prices Blizzard charges for cosmetic content, and the new portal skin package is also criticized.
Many players on Reddit find the price far too high, even though you receive 1,000 platinum with a theoretical value of 9.99 euros when purchasing – especially since the skins are tied to a class.
- “Diablo 4 is a AAA title that already costs 60-100 dollars. And these portals are cool, but they should be included in the game by default, for free.”
- “Since Blizzard realized they can make more money with cosmetic items in-game, the quality of their games has rapidly declined.”
- “I probably would have bought them if they weren’t class-bound, so I could switch between them from time to time. But like this? No.”
Some players also look comparatively at other games like Palworld and Path of Exile to emphasize their confusion over the high prices.
- “They have the prices of Path of Exile but without F2P or fun.”
- “For that, you can buy Palworld.”
- “Considering what you get for 70 dollars in D4 and 70 in PoE [Path of Exile], it’s clear that D4 is the real champion of bullshit.”
In general, you can buy several really high-quality games for 30 euros. On Steam, alongside Palworld, you can also find Hades or Grim Dawn.
For just a few euros more, you can also buy Last Epoch, which is considered one of the biggest competitors of Diablo 4 and will leave Early Access on February 21.
Read more about Last Epoch here: New competition for Diablo 4 on Steam is already a hit before release – But that worries some players
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