there should be a option when you start create a new character to not have access to AH, but access to game lobbies with custom names
I would have chosen such an option in a heartbeat. I think Blizzard was extremely bullish with trying to ensure that the RMAH made a decent chunk of money in the first few months of this game being out. This included making sure every player had access to it and that drop rates were low enough for the first few weeks or months so that prices remained high. This is an understandable fiscal strategy, though it obviously rubbed plenty of gamers the wrong way.
You understand that putting more items on the market would've given Blizzard MORE money, right?
They get 1 dollar PER TRANSACTION. More people are able to afford $4 items than $250 items.
You haven't noticed the hits killing you from 90 yards away? You haven't noticed the animation lag, you haven't noticed the level 50-58 item drops in Inferno, where you can't even possibly need gear that low a level? The scaling is swayed to support the AH, instead of making a fun game that people want to play and farm gear, they made it more like work, tedious tasks that have little reward because you're working for someone else's profit... The replay-ability of Diablo 3 is next to zero, half of what made Diablo 2 fun was being able to play it BACKWARDS, go to any point and run in any direction, no limits, and the gear, it was all good, you could actually kill with white gear and not get killed in ONE shot ... so the only thing that really changed (other than a majority of the real development staff jumping off a sinking ship) was the AH, and the need to feed the greed of a new corporate slave master ... This game sucks, Torchlight 2 is going to be what this game should have been. Twenty+ hours into playing Torchlight 1 and I see so very many similarities to Diablo 3, things that look stolen from Torchlight and slightly modified for Diablo 3, all of course to suit the RMAH, which in itself sucks because of how limited the search features, and the sorting features, and the functionality of the entire AH sytem to begin with, the # of complaints warrants an investigation into wire fraud ... BROKEN is BROKEN, fix it or start dishing out refunds ....
I used a ton of mid 50s items on my barb when I clearing A1. I clear a3 now and I'm still using an ilvl 59 set of bracers. L2play?
I'm para 550 but I'm Marauder build so not the super fastest clearer. Could use a few more people to blaze through a rift.
Larias#1756
Done!
done!!
I've gotten two legendary crafting items from goblins and 2 legendary items from white mobs. Then another ~20 or so legendaries from elites.
You understand that putting more items on the market would've given Blizzard MORE money, right?
They get 1 dollar PER TRANSACTION. More people are able to afford $4 items than $250 items.
I used a ton of mid 50s items on my barb when I clearing A1. I clear a3 now and I'm still using an ilvl 59 set of bracers. L2play?
Larias#1756