Auction House? No, not really. It actually in a sense made the game fun and almost addictive once you start. Playing and buying stuff on the auction house was addictive and actually fun. I don't see what removing it accomplished. The game had more than one thing to do and people actually spent hours upon end watching and using the Auction House and then the same amount of time playing and testing their gear in the game.
Kadala and Rift it Forward? BINGO, that's your answer. People are gearing their character completely out in one day just by farming Rift Fragments and exchanging it for blood shards which you can gamble on specific items.
Either way, the longevity of Diablo 3 didn't change, if anything removing the Auction House and adding BoA is what ruined the longevity.
The game is actually way to restrictive compared to others. The only way to trade or give away your gear you don't want is to find it in a group and give it or trade it within two hours. There is currently no way to sell your gear to other players.
Not sure what the point of this bait'n'switch thread is, given that your other thread on the subject is still going... and it's not like polls on trading haven't been done before either. /grumble
Exactly what Catalept said... except for the poll (which is pointless in this discussion, we want arguments and not click counters) your post fits nicely into the other thread. Please don't make a new thread if there's already a thread going on in which your post fits just nicely. Especially since you created the thread yourself. Locked. Keep the discussion focused in one thread, please.
Kadala and Rift it Forward? BINGO, that's your answer. People are gearing their character completely out in one day just by farming Rift Fragments and exchanging it for blood shards which you can gamble on specific items.
Either way, the longevity of Diablo 3 didn't change, if anything removing the Auction House and adding BoA is what ruined the longevity.
The game is actually way to restrictive compared to others. The only way to trade or give away your gear you don't want is to find it in a group and give it or trade it within two hours. There is currently no way to sell your gear to other players.