I was looking forward to spending about 100 DKK a month on in-game purchases for Diablo IV, but right now it seems like buying some amounts of the
Platinum is not working as intended. Or so I assume.
I assume the “The more you buy, the more you save” concept is what is supposed to be the design. Instead, I see the opposite, incentivizing the consumer to carefully calculate which of the purchases has the best conversion rate.
To demonstrate, look at this screenshot of the Battle.Net apps shop’s Diablo IV Platinum: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AlGPhlt3Xp0ftIB3C6jLNV958pgVZQ (Expires 02.09.23)
From my calculations, 1000 platinum is more expensive than 500 Platinum per euro cent.
Example
In the following example I can save 0,01 EUR by buying the 500 Platinum pack twice instead of buying the 1.000 Platinum pack once:
500 is 4,99 EUR x2 = 9,98
1000 is 9,99
Plese, tell me that I am wrong and that this is a horrible logical conversion mistake.
it’s not a mistake, blizzard is just dumb. We should boycott the store.
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Money talks, true.
The developers created an truly remarkable experience and from what I hear, even their early access launch went off without a queue. A look into the historie of Blizzard and I do not think that has happened in more than a decade!
I want to reward them for such a feat of strength. Not boycott them for it 
For me Blizzard simply became a bunch of greedy bastards. One skin for more than 25% of Digital Deluxe price? Are you nuts?! I’m from Central Europe and here this makes a lot of money - monthly salary in my area is about 700€. Also it’s stupid that all prices are showing only in € and not in local currency.
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The store isn’t that good, imo there is nothing even worth buying. You can find better stuff in game and the armor looks even worse then what you can find in new world store.
Did they even try? The only thing that might be worth it is the “add-on” bundle that gives you 100 platinum for free.
Just wanted to point out that the UK shop has the 1000 platinum piece set as the best… The 10000 platinum piece set is £1.09 more than 10x1000 set… so the “1500” free, is not so free.
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The local currency is a PC thing… If you use the Xbox- or PlayStation-platform, they use the local currency. So, this one is more down to platform politics, I think.
I had wondered about the + “free” Platinum tiers, but since I did not end up buying any of those, I did not look further into it.
This system is so weird.
I cannot fathom how this makes any sense.
So far it feels like Greed designed it to increase their gold drop rate but give as little as possible back, not to reward a higher investment. If that is true, then it is an insult to anyone with enough mind to run the numbers before grabbing their wallets.
I will try to push harder for a public statement about it, if I can.
And yes, considering the items bought are digital-only and very limited in their use, the real money:Platinum ratio(?) is absurdly high. €99.99 for 11.500 Platinum (of which you can buy approx. 5 in-game packs for) WHAT!? I mean… €99.99 was the price for the entire game in Ultimate Edition!
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