Because blizzard has yet to release a lot of the details about battle.net 2.0 and its capabilities I'm not going to go crazy about this stuff.
First off PvP: I never saw D2 as a big PvP type game, yea duels were fun every now and then but with the way the diablo series plays, Blizzard would be hard pressed to provide a level of PvP like that of WoW. I could see no feasable way they could fit traditional PvP(groups vs groups) or WoWish PvP(battle grounds with objectives) in a "Hack n Slash" game such as diablo, I mean "OMFG NOOB LEARN TO GET THE FLAG" just doesn't sound like something from diablo now does it? An option in keeping with Diablo's "Hack n Slash" style and still incorporating PvP would be just an "open world" so to speak. As in a game hosted by blizzard(with no character limits), that anyone can join, that allows player to just run around and kill each other with no over all objective. But personally I think they should just implement a dueling system similar to WoWs, in which both players have to agree to the duel and neither die or loses items. This would solve the problem we have all had with people joining games and going hostile with everyone and laughing as everyone quits the game.
Secondly the trading system: Make gold the standard form of currency. I REPEAT, MAKE GOLD THE STANDARD FORM OF CURRENCY. We all know how horrible trading was in d2, and how it it took hours to get anything you wanted, so I wont go into all that. A gold system in diablo would still be as flawed as d2's system unless there was some way to easily sell your items for gold. I can only see two ways blizzard could make selling easier one is a horrible idea(IMO) and the second totally depends on what battle.net 2 can do. The first is basically what Knight online does, you set up a little table with all your crap on it and a bubble over your head saying what you are selling. They could do this with just a large open area server with no limit on the amount of people in the game, aka a horrible idea(but totally doable). The 2nd part totally depends on if battle.net has a mail system, if it does you could totally do a normal auction house. If you can picture the diablo2 battle.net chat channel and games tab(which im sure you can;)), they could have a similar setup in d3 but with an auction house tab in the lobby, that is very similar to WoWs auction house where you throw up the item with a set buy out price. This would allow players to just throw up the item and go join a game or get off. With how blizzard is doing the battle.net 2.0 servers, this auction house will be for the entire server (aka the US/Europe server etc).
The only problem I see with this auction house like this, is the entire server will be using one AH, and that's A LOT of people(think well over 250,000 people)! So unless blizzard comes out with some sort of sub-server to each realm, I don't see the auction house style of trade system working without being a huge load on blizzard's servers. But the old style of trading like in d2 would be just as bad if not worse. So blizzard has their hands quite full in the trading department.
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First off PvP: I never saw D2 as a big PvP type game, yea duels were fun every now and then but with the way the diablo series plays, Blizzard would be hard pressed to provide a level of PvP like that of WoW. I could see no feasable way they could fit traditional PvP(groups vs groups) or WoWish PvP(battle grounds with objectives) in a "Hack n Slash" game such as diablo, I mean "OMFG NOOB LEARN TO GET THE FLAG" just doesn't sound like something from diablo now does it? An option in keeping with Diablo's "Hack n Slash" style and still incorporating PvP would be just an "open world" so to speak. As in a game hosted by blizzard(with no character limits), that anyone can join, that allows player to just run around and kill each other with no over all objective. But personally I think they should just implement a dueling system similar to WoWs, in which both players have to agree to the duel and neither die or loses items. This would solve the problem we have all had with people joining games and going hostile with everyone and laughing as everyone quits the game.
Secondly the trading system: Make gold the standard form of currency. I REPEAT, MAKE GOLD THE STANDARD FORM OF CURRENCY. We all know how horrible trading was in d2, and how it it took hours to get anything you wanted, so I wont go into all that. A gold system in diablo would still be as flawed as d2's system unless there was some way to easily sell your items for gold. I can only see two ways blizzard could make selling easier one is a horrible idea(IMO) and the second totally depends on what battle.net 2 can do. The first is basically what Knight online does, you set up a little table with all your crap on it and a bubble over your head saying what you are selling. They could do this with just a large open area server with no limit on the amount of people in the game, aka a horrible idea(but totally doable). The 2nd part totally depends on if battle.net has a mail system, if it does you could totally do a normal auction house. If you can picture the diablo2 battle.net chat channel and games tab(which im sure you can;)), they could have a similar setup in d3 but with an auction house tab in the lobby, that is very similar to WoWs auction house where you throw up the item with a set buy out price. This would allow players to just throw up the item and go join a game or get off. With how blizzard is doing the battle.net 2.0 servers, this auction house will be for the entire server (aka the US/Europe server etc).
The only problem I see with this auction house like this, is the entire server will be using one AH, and that's A LOT of people(think well over 250,000 people)! So unless blizzard comes out with some sort of sub-server to each realm, I don't see the auction house style of trade system working without being a huge load on blizzard's servers. But the old style of trading like in d2 would be just as bad if not worse. So blizzard has their hands quite full in the trading department.