Diablo III's Auction House

[Baresark]

I love how so many people are bitching about this. It isn't an MMO, you can always play offline. Plus pretty much every weapon has a level and stat requirement. What's so different from this and someone having a high level alt and feeding good items to their lower level character? Just because someone has a job/life and can't play until level 99 shouldn't be a severe handicap. You aren't really buying power as much as saving time grinding for items, which frankly, not everyone has time for.

Once the game gets old enough, the economy will balance out anyhow. It's not like people are going to get rich trying to sell items that thousands of other people have already found. I think this option is leagues better than before. Anyone else remember all the hacked shit that went on in the previous Diablo games? Yeah, I'm good on all that.

That is the same reasoning as to why it should be ok for gold farming and sales in WoW? And you can still use this to purchase more rare equipment for your character at the level they are at. The people who don't/can't participate will be at a disadvantage, and the game world will be out of balance. And, you can't play offline, you are always online with the system they have in place for this game.

Also, I'm getting sick of watching ads for the captcha. I know you want revenue, but fuck off.

Diablo isn't the same as WoW in terms of content. WoW is a literally a PVP based game. Horde vs Alliance. Diablo is primarily co-op or PVE game, with optional PVP content. Also, are you sure they completely removed single player? Every other Diablo game has had a single player component, granted you couldn't use that character online, but whatever. From what I understand, it's always online, but there is still a single player option, this is probably to prevent hacking.

My only issue with this is that it disturbes PVP balance, which isn't a major deal to me. Some people may have more of a problem with it, but if they care enough, they'll find time to farm their gear. Honestly, if someone wanted to get their epic sword of awesomeness +10 without this system, they'd just buy it online or find a way to hack it. This doesn't change a whole lot in my opinion, it just helps the sheep do it easier and safer.

The single player is intact, but it requires a constant internet connection, like AC2. This has a lot of people very upset. But, it's really just a single player game with a PVP component, and some co-op for good measure.

 

[fundayz]

Hurry up and start a boycott already, people stopped caring about your white knighting a while ago.

Why would I start a boycott? I don't care whether people buy the game or not, I care about my gameplay experience, which the RMAH is going to affect.




oh I almost forgot, so do you think it's okay that money=power in diablo 3 or not? Yes or no, not a hard question.

 

[Nesco Nomen]

OK you guys, it's official:

Best Paladin in the world fiercely supports Real money AH [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pc53tFAo1g#t=1m45s]


Maybe close thread now?

 

[Azure Sky]

Hurry up and start a boycott already, people stopped caring about your white knighting a while ago.

Why would I start a boycott? I don't care whether people buy the game or not, I care about my gameplay experience, which the RMAH is going to affect.




oh I almost forgot, so do you think it's okay that money=power in diablo 3 or not? Yes or no, not a hard question.

So you care if other people buy it or not? Make up your mind.

Still not going to waste my time with a detailed answer for you. keep waiting. =3

 

[Azure Sky]

OK you guys, it's official:

Best Paladin in the world fiercely supports Real money AH [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pc53tFAo1g#t=1m45s]

Maybe close thread now?

Smart guy, quite insightful.

 

[Yumore]

They fight so hard to combat gold shopping in WoW that I think this is a very smart move. They'll make money for giving away data rights and they'll basically neutralize any sort of money website for Diablo 3. In the end, just another way for blizzard to make money and instead of being one of these "World of Warcraft is systematically robbing everyone who plays it" people, I've actually played the game enough to realize "Yes it is expensive, Yes the people are jerks but it's all worth it for the quality I get from a game that would have self destructed if it were in the hands of people who didn't do the kind of maintenance that they do on the game."

In conclusion, they handled WoW well and since Diablo 3 is looking more and more like blizzards next big social life replacement device I think by this point they know what they're doing.

 

[fundayz]

Hurry up and start a boycott already, people stopped caring about your white knighting a while ago.

Why would I start a boycott? I don't care whether people buy the game or not, I care about MY gameplay experience, which the RMAH is going to affect.

oh I almost forgot, so do you think it's okay that money=power in diablo 3 or not? Yes or no, not a hard question.

So you care if other people buy it or not? Make up your mind.

Still not going to waste my time with a detailed answer for you. keep waiting. =3

When have I EVER said or implied that I cared if people bought the game or not? You are just making up stuff now.

And how on earth is "yes" or "no" a detailed answer? You are definitely afraid of answering.

 

[Azure Sky]

Hurry up and start a boycott already, people stopped caring about your white knighting a while ago.

Why would I start a boycott? I don't care whether people buy the game or not, I care about MY gameplay experience, which the RMAH is going to affect.

oh I almost forgot, so do you think it's okay that money=power in diablo 3 or not? Yes or no, not a hard question.

So you care if other people buy it or not? Make up your mind.

Still not going to waste my time with a detailed answer for you. keep waiting. =3

When have I EVER said or implied that I cared if people bought the game or not? You are just making up stuff now.

And how on earth is "yes" or "no" a detailed answer? You are definitely afraid of answering.

Keep on thinking that *Pats on head*

Side note, anyone interested in the beta and stuff, Blizz have changed their beta opt-in software.
Remember to update. =3

 

[Aeonknight]

would that at some point that people will be able to give money for gold?
And thus make gold a non-efficient way to trade AGAIN has it was in Diablo 2

1) Player A buy really rare item for 10$ in the RM AH
2) Player A put the really rare item on the gold AH
3) Player A eventually get 10k gold for it
4) ????
5) Profit! (Player then now have 10k gold for the price of 10$)

those are just random number but I think some people will do that.
I really think it not a good idea.

Don't forget the part where chinese sweatshops step in and overrun the economy, effectively pushing legit players out.

Supporters of this system, I say to you "Enjoy being undercut by a few dollars and not being refunded your listing fee by Blizzard!"

 

[Nesco Nomen]

Don't forget the part where chinese sweatshops step in and overrun the economy, effectively pushing legit players out.

Supporters of this system, I say to you "Enjoy being undercut by a few dollars and not being refunded your listing fee by Blizzard!"

And how exactly will Chinese players be able to stop "legit players" from trading to each other?

Harro Prease much??

 

[PandaPoster]

Blizzard said it would work with a unknown third party for cashing out....Yay, hopefully the money in the game will stabilize the gold count so it doesn't go crazy like on WoW