Maxroll has just announced that it's discontinuing its Diablo 4 branch

Diablo 4 Gold was originally supposed to be the first major game by Activision Blizzard on mobile phones, only for the game to be subject to scrutiny and criticism for its excessive monetization plan. The revelation that it could take hundreds of thousands of dollars to max out their characters has made headlines immediately, and it doesn't seem like the controversy has ended not yet. In particular, Maxroll has just announced that it's discontinuing its Diablo 4 branch, an unprecedented decision for one of the most popular and well-established RPG guide websites that exist on the Internet. The official announcement explaining this decision explains that Maxroll's community is the main aspect of the mission for the team and the company is not able to continue to produce Diablo 4 guides in good faith.

The stories of streamers spending thousands of dollars for Diablo 4 only to never receive the loot they need to advance in the game are becoming more common as more and more players are battling Diablo 4's difficulty levels at the end. As expected, this is one of the main reasons Maxroll has made the decision to end its guides to the game, however it's not the only one. According to Maxroll, there are several major issues with Diablo 4 at this time such as its economic structure the community's disappointment with the game's general unsatisfying gameplay.

Maxroll clarified that it's not a matter of money at this point and stated the Activision Blizzard would need to change Diablo 4's mechanics of pay-to-win, and the announcement by the company said that "[theydon't see a solution" unless the game undergoes major changes with regard to this aspect. Maxroll's staff of Diablo 4 specialists had more than 10.000 hours studying the game over the course of the past two years, and the company felt that it had to walk away from the project in order ensure that it was doing the right thing for its community.

Although it was initially estimated that it would only take about $100.000 for players to fully equip their characters within the game, additional findings revealed that it would require more than $500.000 to the maximum level of a character in Diablo 4. This reveal came about as players were able to unlock a few of the game's most obscure features like the so-called Awakening that opens many more gem slots the player to equip.

It's increasingly unlikely that Activision Blizzard will revamp Diablo 4 to make it less aggressive game as time goes on. In fact, the major concern of the community right now concerns about whether Diablo 4 could have the same issues as cheap Diablo 4 Gold since the company revealed that its new flagship RPG would function as more of a game-as-a service, instead of an individual standalone release.