Blizzard's Diablo Immortal: Lose items you paid for if not logged in for a day

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by bitcharmer • 4 years ago

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blokhasie• 4 years ago

Genshin Impact, a popular PC/mobile/console game, has a similar purchase, https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Blessing_of_the_Welki...

Fairly sure it is done this way to induce anxiety to login every day.

panda88888• 4 years ago

Yup, it is to ensure daily engagement. Many other games have similar check-in based rewards, free or purchase-able.

kramerger• 4 years ago

If someone writes a bot to log in and out every day, would that count?

TowerTall• 4 years ago

Like the stackoverflow badge "Fanatic" you get for "Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days."

https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges

thatguy0900• 4 years ago

Warframe also used to have something similar, you can breed animals to act as companions and helpers during missions. If you didnt spend resources on them they would eventually degrade and die after 20 or so days

ModernMech• 4 years ago

I remember Fable 3 (or maybe it was 2?), where when you finally got ownership of the main city, you could start collecting taxes from the citizens which would accrue while you weren't playing. It meant that every time you played you'd get a notification on how much fake money you had passively gained.

This is like the opposite of that, where when you log in the game tells you how much real money you lost.

em-bee• 4 years ago

and there i avoided "buying" a house for in-game coins (no cash) in lord of the rings online because i'd risk losing it if i didn't play for half a year.

and sort of related, telegram deletes your account if you don't use it for a year (or less, but a year is the longest configurable time).

it's kind of reasonable, since they want to free up space used by dead accounts, but still short enough to introduce a small level of anxiety.

allarm• 4 years ago

If your friend’s Telegram account gets deleted you still have access to the whole chat history. Idk if it is possible to restore the deleted account though.

nokya• 4 years ago

My purchase process: 1. Browse Diablo immortal app on play store. 2. Read price: free (in-app purchases). 3. Return to whatever I was doing.

hypertele-Xii• 4 years ago

A game that punishes you for not playing does not respect your time.

A game that does not respect your time is not worth playing.

Blizzard's Diablo Immortal: Lose items you paid for if not logged in for a day

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