Personally, i will not, because i'll not be buying the game on release (will wait price to drops a little and see the rewieves) but i know a group of people who are preparing for that, and will hire programmers to do bots for them, depending if it's worth it.
well i know it can be done when d2 first i had a friend that paid for a full pond and deck in his back yard by selling items on ebay and such. When it first came out all item were worth something to somebody and i feel the same for d3 cuse all items in d3 will have random properties making them that much more unique. blizz has done some changes to kind of push you back from being able to get great items at the beginning of the game like no pages of training until nightmare so you cannot craft at the beginning of the game and taking out breaking down white items to also slow the process down. i still think theres money to be made it will just take longer. Remember this is a game and everyone whats the best gear and well they will buy it if they have to.
i didnt mean that you cannot craft at the beginning you can but you can upgrade them until nightmare and the item you can craft at the beginning arnt going to be worth any value thats all
I for one will not be using the RMAH. The whole notion of spending real money to obtain virtual stuff is beyond my understanding. Seems like a lot of people will use it tough, and therefore the prices will stay low, so nobody will get rich selling stuff. Only ones getting rich will be Activision shareholders
Ya...while the notion of getting "rich" may not be there...there's def a chance to make money each week, especially during the first...say 3 months or so. The fact that people will buy in game currency and gear has already been proved from past games (WoW and D2). Once I hit nightmare, I'm confident I can make 20-40/week from only 3-4 hours a day. It's simple economics.
Playing 8 hours a day will net a nice amount of items, but only people in eastern europe and asia who make fake account on EU/US servers will make anything of it, trying to match the prices they can put up while still making a living, will be impossible for us if we want to "get rich"
No I have no delusions about making any sort of real income from the game. I'm planning on just treating real cash like SoJs used to be in D2, I'll use the money I can make from stuff I don't need to trade for other items that I am interested in.
I'm not planning to make money. If I make some money in game I'll spend it on items that I need, unlike the items I sold. Having a job is a good enough source of income.
I would love to be able to play the RMAH but I ain't good at even playing the WoW market. Plus I wont sell any items till I have no further need for them. My characters will have higher priority over selling. And I only feel like selling legendaries because that will always be a seller.
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There will be groups setup to be gold and item farmers who will make money from it. I doubt the average player will make more than enough to pay for their game habit. Either way there will always be lazy people who want the top gear for no effort and will pay for it so someone will make some $$. Just won't be me and that's fine, I'd rather have a life.
I'd imagine that hardcore farming would still only make you a little money. Definitely not enough to sustain yourself on lol. And to the people saying they'll be botting to make money, blizz is going to be cracking down on that bigtime. They're not going to stand for people botting to make RL money.
If i get even remotely lucky..(which in the past Diablo games isn't the case) and I get those rare items that people seem to have the extra cash for, that might be the only time I ever use the RMAH. Other than that, I don't plan to touch it at all.
I'm just thinking to the items in Diablo2 if I would've paid for any of them and how much. For the fairly rare runes perhaps I might have considered paying a few dollars ($10-15) for them (Vex++) and then for things like unique shako or the some of the other rare pieces to the elite sets. Then I have to consider how often I found one of those items I might have thought of buying and I can't help but think that at best I'd make $10/day once the RMAH kinda settles into a balanced economy. I figure in the first few weeks/month or so there will be oportunities to make perhaps $60/day but I'd be guessing. For myself with a career I'd probably think long and hard about selling a great item I just found early after release. Who knows maybe I'm way off but I doubt anyone is getting rich off the RMAH. I guess the shift in the gaming industry is to sell these downloadable content patch updates that people buy on Steam etc for $2.99-$15 so maybe there is a high percentage of people willing to drop money on a game at a regular rate. I plan on spending the majority of my playtime in Hardcore so I guess its pretty much moot.
If I end up playing this game as much as I played Diablo 2 (which is likely!), I don't see why I shouldn't at least give it a shot. I like money though.
I do not think I will become rich. An extra 50-100 dollars a week or so would help a lot. With the economy the way it is now any buck helps lol. Plus depends on luck if you will make a lot of money or not.
Very few people will get "rich" on the RMAH. I also wonder if the removal of the listing fee will help or hinder this process. With a listing fee people would think twice before putting something up at an over-inflated price hoping to find someone willing to pay that amount. Right now we can only make guesses on how this will play out in the wild
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Are you one of these people?
How will you feel, after grinding inferno for a month and not finding anything of value?
Ya...while the notion of getting "rich" may not be there...there's def a chance to make money each week, especially during the first...say 3 months or so. The fact that people will buy in game currency and gear has already been proved from past games (WoW and D2). Once I hit nightmare, I'm confident I can make 20-40/week from only 3-4 hours a day. It's simple economics.
Also no RMAH in HC, besides I just wanna have fun in the game and randomly sell stuff that I don't need.
RIP: Demon Hunter: lvl 50 | Barb: lvl 60 (plvl 5) | Monk: lvl12 & lvl70 (plvl 200)
I'd love to eventually make the money I paid for the game back. That's honestly my only goal.