Several European Countries to Miss Diablo Immortal Over Lootbox Regulations

Thursday will see Blizzard’s most ambitious take on the MMO genre—taking it to the mobile platform exclusively, with “Diablo Immortal.” The game is being launched as “free to play,” and like most titles built on this business-model, you buy in-game items to improve your gameplay, some of these are lootboxes. Blizzard decided to not release the game in countries with laws against lootboxes. This would mean that gamers in The Netherlands and Belgium would miss the game, Blizzard will not release or support the game for players from these countries. Even if they manage to install the game somehow (eg: using a VPN), Blizzard says it cannot guarantee that such players won’t be banned from the game (because even playing the game would be illegal).