That's a lie.If you don't buy the $100 expansion, you wont get expansion content, bosses/new items or level cap increase.100% pay to win.
More stash space is pay for QoL/Fixes.And thinking about doing an "early access" for new legendary powers/gears is pay for power.
Holy $%^& people still on about this? They have clearly shown that D4 doesn't have any P2W...
"There's no buying powerful gear in this game! It's not P2W! But you can use real money to buy these gems which massively power up your character! Gems aren't gear though!" - Wyatt Cheng, guy who's now working on D4
they said the same thing about immortal
instead $70-$80USD cosmetics lol. Not even micro, just macro on a full priced game.
A classic Blizzard lie and misdirection. At least their competitors have the decency to say to your face what they want to do with you. Sure they do it with corporate spin language and try to justify it but they don't deny or hide it which is another layer of contempt beyond doing it for the players. EA might have been roundly mocked for their "sense of accomplishment" comment on paid for content in Star Wars but they owned what they were doing while Blizzard and their army of loyal fans will gas-light you and claim they're not doing it. At least when companies admit it we can confront what it is and have a discussion and in our own heads rationally weigh it, when they deny it and they have loyalists who go along with the gas-lighting instead of being able to discuss the actual issue we get bogged down in debates about whether it's even happening which is perhaps intentional.
How about pay for the game to be good ? Can we expect that ? No ?