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Diablo Immortal, which is open-to-play and free, was widely criticised at the time of its launch in June because of its diverse microtransactions and "pay-to-win" legendary gem system D2R Items. However, it reported that it made greater than 50 million during the first month. Blizzard has yet to address criticisms about how the game is monetized.

In addition, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra instead defending the game's monetization strategy in an interview. After a storm of criticism against Diablo Immortal, Blizzard has clarified that even though Diablo IV will have an in-game microtransaction store, it will be only for cosmetics. There will be no way to spend real money for the game's power.

"Well there are a lot of ways Diablo IV is an ode to all our faithful fans" Shely said. "We've really focused on this idea of returning back to the darkness. We know that when we release an Diablo game, players are expecting a lot in Diablo:R Diablo and earlier Diablo experiences they've experienced.

Therefore, we realize that we have a lot of things that really just need to be there. As we consider the classes we wanted to make sure that the types of experiences that players remembered fondly from earlier Diablo games would be available however, we also wanted to bring these into the most contemporary versions of them."

Some aspects of Diablo IV's classes, while not technically new but haven't been played in quite a while. The Rogue Returns from the first Diablo as a combination of Diablo's Amazon and Assassin classes. The Druid from Diablo also makes an appearance. The other classes - the Barbarian buy diablo 2 resurrected items, Sorceress, and Necromancer--have been in Diablo, III, and Diablo Immortal.