Anytime we have a purchase, we want to make sure it's a good value. So we're doing things to make sure the game is fun for everyone. And I will say that I was in a top Dark House in the Shadows, I kept up with World Paragon, I was competitive in PvP, I would often get the MVP ranking. There were a few of us on the team that did that because we wanted to see what the experience was like. 'Going back, I played the beta without spending a dollar.

Speaking to GameSpot, the game's senior game designer Scott Burgess denied any form of pay-to-win mechanics in the game, claiming that they made it to the beta's highest PvP ranks without spending anything:

Reports from players on the subreddit and on YouTube suggest that was definitely the case in the beta. Those concepts are still intact in the new game, but the rate at which you normally receive upgrades and upgrade materials could be skewed toward getting you to pay up. All of Diablo Immortal's microtransactions (expertly explained here) touch on the aspects of the series that used to be all about how you use your time and the risk/reward of attempting higher level dungeons.

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