There's nothing to complain about the gameplay, which is instantaneous in Diablo Immortal. Fighting the demonic hordes can be satisfying. There's plenty of diversity in character classes, abilities and potential builds. There's a lot of interesting items to hunt for. Structurally, though, the game isn't without its flaws.

Diablo Immortal doesn't cost anything to play, although after the first few hours, I was wanting it to. I would have much rather paid a single, flat fee to play at my own speed and not being continuously bombarded with (surprisingly expensive) microtransactions in every single turn. Diablo Immortal is by no by any means as good as free-to play games get, but every single F2P mechanism is actually detrimental to the game, rather than improve it.

The first is that there's no need to pay for Diablo Immortal's game if you're not interested in it. You'll still be able experience the full story and find lots of loot, and engage in all the activities. And for the first 20-30 levels of character, you may not even be aware of the things you're missing.

After a couple of hours in your game experience, everything slows down quite a bit, and then the F2P grind starts to take over. (This occurs about the time that you begin to feel truly invested in the game. Picture that.) Different from regular Diablo games, Diablo Immortal occasionally just stops the plot dead in its tracks and won't let you continue unless you meet an arbitrary level threshold. It's not too bad in the event that the game restricts the way you make significant amounts of XP each day. After a few hours of time-limited tasks, your options are pretty similar to "run identical dungeons and over again" instead of "buy the Battle Pass."