Anyone playing Diablo Immortal?

[CelticHound]

[Edit to add a summary] 
I think that - if you have the will power to not click the "$" buttons - Diablo Immortal is a nice, easy game worth playing through.
- The game is only pay-to-win on the PvP side. (And that's where things get ugly.)
- The  plot is perhaps at a D3 level. (Remember Azmodan's posturing in Act 3 of D3, well, now there is Skarn...)
- They are extending the plot-line as time goes on. There is "Bride of Hell" stuff I haven't played (yet?).
- The ease of completing things (daily bounty missions, temporary events like hungering moon, the battle pass) made me feel like a winner.
- I didn't like the feeling that I had to play every day or I would fall behind. (Even though "behind" only matters for PvP.)

I've stopped playing Diablo Immortal... again.

The first time was a combination of toxic community on the server and me getting recruited into one of the top PvP clans on the server. It turns out that being in a top PvP clan is like having a 2nd job, and I didn't need that.

The second time I stopped was because min-maxing as a free-to-play player was taking up all my waking hours and I'm too autistic to simply back off.  
(The min-maxing involved generating platinum for myself to get/upgrade legendary gems - figuring out multi-boxing, making three accounts of 5 alts so each alt could earn 300 platinum a day then doing sell-high/buy-low with my main character in the marketplace.)
[End summary]

I admit it, I got bored in Path of Exile and tried the PC beta for Diablo Immortal.
(Definitely a beta - I've had the game client crash on me a fair amount. On the plus side, I'd been able to restart it, log in and find myself able to pick up where I left off.)

I've spent no money, so far. (But if I decide to keep playing, I might do the $5 monthly battle pass at some point.)
And what's going to cause me to stop playing is not the P2W, but the MMO-ness of it.

I actually enjoy the game play. It's a lot like Diablo 3, and the lack of power compared to P2W players doesn't bother me.
But after Normal difficulty, a number of activities - dungeons, lairs (mini-dungeons), raids, etc - start to require groups of 2, 4 or 8 characters to enter.
So I'm really wishing there were some people I knew playing.

[Boro]

steering well clear of it. Don't have much of a stomach for mmo-ification anymore.

[KingOfPain]

Hmm, no one even talked about Diablo Immortal here. I guess you find it worth $60 a year on top of whatever else a person can get suck into. Maybe I should check it out sometimes. It's free download/trail, right?

[CelticHound]

Hmm, no one even talked about Diablo Immortal here. I guess you find it worth $60 a year on top of whatever else a person can get suck into. Maybe I should check it out sometimes. It's free download/trail, right?

I think that downloading it and playing it through the campaign as free-to-play is worth the price. 
As free-to-play you can see pretty much all the content. (There is one raid boss who I doubt I'll ever be powerful enough to try.)
And as a variant-scum, having the P2W players being more powerful should not cause trauma. 

They have monthly "seasons" and buying the upgraded battle pass for the month gives you more resources as you progress though the season. It's not a subscription, which I'd run away from. I'd only do it for months where I expected to be a heavy player, and because I'd like to throw some money their way if I'm enjoying the game. Otherwise, I have no problem with ignoring the "$$$" buttons, and as I said, so far I'm still free-to-play. But I might also stop playing it before spending any money.

As for the game itself, I am enjoying it, but I wanted a break from the complexity of Path of Exile.
There are two quest dungeons in the campaign that I liked - Tomb of Fahir and Kikuras Rapids.
In some aspects it's like D3 simplified for mobile.
For example, if you thought the legendary items in D3 were mostly boring, it's more so here - almost everything is just incremental levels of power and P2W players can simply stack more power.

Knowing you, KoP - and I still remember breaking a cracked sash for one of your characters - it's a light diversion to see the content, but not much more than that.

I think Path of Exile would interest you more. It's free to play - the most P2W thing is that you can buy more stash tabs, but you can get around that by making additional accounts and muling.
The reason I think you'd like it is that grinding gear games regularly gets blind-sided by some player figuring out a skill/item combo that breaks the game.
On the other hand, the game is all about items, so naked characters are probably not a thing.

[KingOfPain]

I think PoE caught me at a time when I was trying to curb my gaming. I took one look at the skill tree and said I am not going to invest that much time to figure that thing out

Once in awhile when I log on Bnet. I see Occhi playing. Talked to him a month ago to try and locate Sirian, cus Gris was going that way and wanted to visit. I see Dr. Disaster on mobile, so maybe he is playing DI.

[CelticHound]

I took one look at the [PoE] skill tree and said I am not going to invest that much time to figure that thing out

As a PoE player since closed beta, I have to say that was a wise life-decision on your part. 

Once in awhile when I log on Bnet. I see Occhi playing. Talked to him a month ago to try and locate Sirian, cus Gris was going that way and wanted to visit. I see Dr. Disaster on mobile, so maybe he is playing DI.

Ooh - next time you see him, say hi to Occhi for me.

Sirian is still around? The last time I looked for his warpcore site, I had to go to the way-back machine.
(It was because Chris Wilson of Grinding Gear gave an interview about PoE to D2.net, and he mentioned reading about a sorceress killing diablo with the beginning fireball staff...)