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Quote from: jrgp on September 30, 2010, 03:36:50 pmOnly anime shows I've felt any interest in over the years are Pokemon (original TV series) and various hentai.so clearly jgrp is a goddamn anime connoisseur. his opinion might as well be law here.
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Nice article; well written, thought through, articulate. I just don't agree at all. The RMAH idea holds a number of serious issues for me. Issues that could potentially make me not wanna play the game. I'd be luying if I said I won't be trying it out, because I definitely will regardless, but I might not hang around. The fact that ingame trading in diablo 3 is not gonna be item2item. One of THE best things about Diablo 2 was the trading aspect of it. As soon as you'd completed the game a couple of times, and gotten yourself some fair items, you turned to trading. It became a new game in itself, and it was always a laugh to trade your newly found items into something else, and then see if you could get something that was worth more in the first place. With the currency being gold(or especially with it being real money) this idea gets utterly destroyed. Yes, you can argue that you can still do this with gold/real money, but it's never gonna be the same. Especially since it's a matter of time before a site comes up that diagrams the selling price of every item in the game on an average curve, and so the trading system will be mechanized and lifeless. You also spoke of goldfarming, which, in my opinion, is one of the biggest 'Blizz, you haven't thought this through'ish aspects of the AH idea. Blizzard said that the marked and currency value will be set by the community, i.e us. While that is undeniable, there is no way in hell we'll be able to compete with the goldfarmers. The value on everything from items to gold is gonna plummet, because the chinese can afford to underbit everyone almost regardless of the price. If you look at item sites today, highrunes go for less than €1, and it's still profitable for them. We are gonna reach a point where selling your items isn't worth the trouble, rendering the RMAH pointless in the first place. Also, reading through the transcript, I noticed people kept asking the very obvious question of why you wouldn't always just put your items on the RMAH as opposed to the gold oriented one.. after all, most of us would rather make real cash than ingame gold, right? Blizzard's response to this was that you are going to need ingame gold to advance in the game, and so you'll need to put stuff up on the gold related AH as well. But here's the thing, not really. I reckon that if I make €10 off of selling an item, I can get more gold for that if I go to a chinese goldfarming site, than if I buy it off of the gold AH. Look at WoW today, how effin cheap is gold on farmsites? So for all their hard work here, blizzard is NOT shutting down the profitable farm sites, and the RMAH will not be a properly community controlled economic flow of currency. Another thing here, and I know people might think it's a little vaginal of me, is ethics. The current system not only encourages botting, goldfarming, duping, hacking and scamming, but it practically applauds it. We get spammed with fake phishing e-mails all the time, and the ingame chat is just a mess as well; "Cheapest gold on the net, save 50% now!" or "Wow, I tried this site and it's AWESOME!". Most people see this and they think, "Nope, no way I'm doing that". However, now people are gonna be accustomed to pay for things like this, and with Blizzard's concent, it'll be worse of a problem than it has ever been before. Scamming is another thing.. How many of us have seen "This is an official GM, I need your pass to bla bla.." in WoW? Well if you've glanced at the chat for even a second, you must've seen it. If you look at most of the other great titles Blizzard's put out there in the past, it's obvious that people will do anything for a set of pixels with some beneficial sideeffects. How many of us have been scammed in WoW/Diablo? Most of us have probably scammed others as well.. it's a huuge thing. People are always coming up with new ways to get ahold of other people's items, and now that we're adding actual money to the equation, it won't exactly be a decreasing factor, will it? I remember playing D2 a lot, and I would make some pretty awesome friends.. some of them I knew for years, and one of them I still talk to occationally, 7 or 8 years later. There was something cool about getting to know people to the point where you trusted them enough to hold your windforce while you muled, or you allowed them to enter your account to borrow an item when you were offline.. People became more than just casual acqaintences, they became actual friends. Now though, that trust is already broken in advance. There is no way I'm letting anyone borrow anything from me, 'cause there are already plenty of examples of people scamming friends for much less than actual money. Which sorta brings me to my next point.. sorta.. Blizzard's done a lot to promote socializing and teamplay within Diablo 3, which I think is awesome. They've promoted easy access drop-in play mechanics, the individual looting system that makes you not wanna rip somebodys head off when they steal an item just in front of you, you can talk to your friends in other blizzard games from within the main screen, stuff like that. All ideas that are truly great. Until they added actual money. Imagine downing an unbelievably hard boss, and all you get for it is some mediocre items, while someone in the party finds a super unique item, that sells for, say €100.. You should just be happy for him/her, but that's not how the world really works, is it? I'm the kind of asshole that would get extremely envious, and it could potentially ruin my experience of the game. But even if you aren't as petty as me, there's always gonna be that notion of envy, and no matter how you put it, that's gonna be a negative aspect as well. All in all I'm really not a fan of the recent AH idea, and I do believe it's extremely counter productive. As I said earlier, I'm still gonna at least try the game out, 'cause there's no way I'm turning my back on this after what feels like an eternety of hyping and waiting. I have no doubt it's still gonna be a good game, but I feel like "good" is a compromize when it could've been "awesome". Again, really nice article, Phrozen. Well done mate. My 2 cents..
Any diablo 2 veteran worth his salt should know what i'm about to reference: D2jsp. Haven't heard of it?
and you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
the new auction house is a brilliant move, both for the player and the company. we won't have to fear the chance of getting scammed on d2jsp and the company gets its extra pay while (supposedly) eating on the 3rd party cash harvesting systems. d2jsp is what makes all the difference here, they're like one of the largest and most active gaming forums around and the rate at which people 'contribute' to the cause has made diablo 2 in its entirety more or less paytowin
Quote from: Ymies on August 06, 2011, 02:49:57 amthe new auction house is a brilliant move, both for the player and the company. we won't have to fear the chance of getting scammed on d2jsp and the company gets its extra pay while (supposedly) eating on the 3rd party cash harvesting systems. d2jsp is what makes all the difference here, they're like one of the largest and most active gaming forums around and the rate at which people 'contribute' to the cause has made diablo 2 in its entirety more or less paytowinAnd the RMAH defeats this how?
