Different from regular Diablo IV Gold titles, Diablo Immortal occasionally just abruptly stops the story in its tracks, and will not allow you to continue until you meet an arbitrary level threshold. This shouldn't be too bad in the event that the game restricts your options to earn significant amounts XP every day. After a handful of time-limited quests and dungeons, the choices are pretty similar to "run the same dungeons over and over again" and "buy your own Battle Pass."
(It is interesting that the game strongly recommends buying the Battle Pass as an efficient way to increase your level.)
This is, of course that's where the whole predatory F2P nonsense kicks in. The game features five or six currencies, and it's at all clear which you can earn, or what you'll need to purchase. Battle Pass Battle Pass costs between $5 and $15, depending on how many cosmetics you're interested in -- however, there are two other "daily rewards" subscriptions which cost either $10 or $20, depending on the amount you want. If you're interested in earning every reward the game can offer you, you're looking at just $45 at the start.
Premium currency packs range between $1 to $100. There are also "bundles," which feel like a lot of money, even according to F2P standards. When you have completed each major plot dungeon and complete the game, it will give you a set of items in exchange for a reward -- with the caveat that you must purchase the bundle. The bundles start at a fair $1 for each bundle, but they quickly increase up to $20. As of the writing time, if I bought every bundle that the game had to offer I'd be spending about $46.The art direction used in Diablo 4, which leans heavily on inspiration from ancient or Old Masters paintings, applies to character creation as well. While there are various options for green-hued hairstyles or vivid body paint, custom character designs in Diablo 4 look grounded and realistic , not as though they've appeared in an episode of Monster Factory, or out of an episode of Saints Row cutscene.
There are a myriad of different skin and hair colors including, in the pre-release game we played this weekend, we had four feminine and Diablo 4 Gold four masculine faces per class.(The game doesn't appear to use gender-specific descriptors of its characters, to be honest.)
