
And while lower-quality crests can be earned in-game for free, these premium Legendary Crests can only be purchased via the in-game store. But you don’t know what you’ll get before buying or doing the dungeon, which basically makes these blind loot boxes that are locked until you play through an activity to open them. These crests guarantee that rarer, better gems and items will drop as rewards for finishing a Rift dungeon. For example, Legendary Crests cost real money and can augment loot drops from Rift dungeons, activities which are free to access and play. But you can also spend cash to unlock more than just fancy outfits or weapon skins.

You can buy cosmetics, sure, and most folks today are ok with or at least have made their peace with in-game cosmetics that are purely decorative. Some of the included microtransactions are so bad that they violated two countries’ loot box and in-game gambling laws, preventing Diablo Immortal’s release in those nations. But it’s also filled to the brim with ways to spend money that aren’t present in past Diablo titles. Let’s not beat around the corrupted blood bush: Diablo Immortal is a free-to-play action RPG dungeon crawler built for phones ( but coming to PC too) that looks and plays a lot like Diablo 3.
