Blizzard's Diablo Immortal: Lose items you paid for if not logged in for a day

Genshin Impact, a popular PC/mobile/console game, has a similar purchase, https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Blessing_of_the_Welki...

Fairly sure it is done this way to induce anxiety to login every day.

I remember Fable 3 (or maybe it was 2?), where when you finally got ownership of the main city, you could start collecting taxes from the citizens which would accrue while you weren't playing. It meant that every time you played you'd get a notification on how much fake money you had passively gained.

This is like the opposite of that, where when you log in the game tells you how much real money you lost.

My purchase process: 1. Browse Diablo immortal app on play store. 2. Read price: free (in-app purchases). 3. Return to whatever I was doing.

and there i avoided "buying" a house for in-game coins (no cash) in lord of the rings online because i'd risk losing it if i didn't play for half a year.

and sort of related, telegram deletes your account if you don't use it for a year (or less, but a year is the longest configurable time).

it's kind of reasonable, since they want to free up space used by dead accounts, but still short enough to introduce a small level of anxiety.

A game that punishes you for not playing does not respect your time.

A game that does not respect your time is not worth playing.