Sp your spending didn't solve the problem, and earned you a figurative bigger rank number that no one cares about.

Guess what? Even if you spend, you will still meet another player who spends more than you. One of the most common trap that make players spend is facing a overgearded person in pvp, who clobbers you and make you feel like you need to spend to win him and progress. But there's practically not much difference playing at rank 100000 vs playing at rank 10. Enjoy PvP, farm your gears, and match up against other f2p PvP players. Spending in this game is only for PvP, and you will never win the PvP game unless you are the biggest whale, and that is never a static spending - expect to pay thousands every month to remain the top. Unlike other gachas which are more collection focused (i.e you have to spend money pulling for heroes, which can change your team building and abilities and gameplay experience) or games like Hearthstone (you have to pay to build different decks which adds additional gameplay options), you literally get 0 extra gameplay from spending money in Diablo since you are given access to the same heroes and abilities from the very start. So they are essentially whaling for a pixel that says 'rank 10 or rank 1'. The guy spending $10,000 experiences a short burst of adrenaline beating players who don't spend on the game, and then reaches the high ranks where the whales equally spends $10,000 and then their advantage is evened out. You can literally enjoy 100% of the game spending $0, as much as the guy who spends $10,000/month whaling on the game. The only way to win the game is to not to participate in the spending race at all. From shortening timers, to upgrading loots in dungeon to outright buying upgrades, everything lets you skip ahead of the crowd in order to 'progress'. Since many Diablo players are making the move from PC into mobile gaming, it's a timely point to remind that DI is designed as a gacha that is out to make you spend to 'feel' like you can compete to be better than others.

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