Anyway, HAPPY INFOZ!!
For those of you disappointed with the currency based AH, realize that Blizzard only created this feature because a large about of the player based wanted it, and shows that through their actions. A huge percentage of people used sketchy third party sites to buy items, and often ended up getting scammed. There was also a lot of personal information leaks, corrupt site leaders, and unreliable serves just to name a few troubles. These third party sites could also raise prices as much as they wanted claiming superior delivery than one another, or non-duped items which more often than not turned out to be false. Point being if players didn't use these methods to acquire items, Blizzard would have not created a currency AH.
Since the reality is it's here to stay, look on the bright side! There are a lot of great things that will come from this!
- Blizzard will not be selling items in the AH: There will not be a never ending supply of bot farmed items as there was with third party sites. Nor will Blizzard create items to sell over the AH. *Also with the revenue Blizzard will make from this, I'd say it's safe to assume a lot of it will go to maintaining the game. Be it patches, cheat detection, expansions, and more.
- No more, or very little of third party site purchases: Since the community will determine the value to items, it'll likely be much cheaper to buy items in the currency AH than via untrustworthy third party sites.
- You don't have to spend money!: The street goes both ways, if you choose to use the currency AH you can sell items to make money, than use that money to buy items. Optimally you become both a producer and a consumer to break even. Hell look at America right now, we're in the hole because all we do is consume.. Don't be like us..
- The player base will determine market prices!: At first I'm pretty sure prices will be pretty random as players figure out what they're willing to accept, and pay for certain items. After some time has passed the economy will stabilize and item values will be pretty general, changing for variable stats obviously. Point being though it's up to us, not some greedy botting third party site managers who will make the prices.
I could keep listing good things about the currency AH, but I suggest you read through the entire FAQ, for it lists pretty much everything you need to know to put your mind at ease. As Don did, I also raged for a few minutes. Mostly because I didn't read through everything before forming my opinion. After I had, I realized if Blizzard didn't do this, even without bots, third party sites would have still managed to find and sell items through straight farming. I'm sure these sites will still try, but I doubt they'll be able to compete with the convince of the in-game AH.
Will there still be players who buy a leveled character, buy the best gear, and don't work at all for their experience? Sure, this would happen anyway through their party sites! Sadly this is something that will happen to matter what. I'd bet though it wouldn't be cheap, and that the percentage of people who do this will be very, very small.
All and all I'm really looking forward to this feature, and feel that if used smartly it will not only not require any money input, but could potentially produce some profit, be it e-balance for Blizzard stuff, or some cash you can say you got from pwning at D3! Cheer up guys, sit back and give it some thought after reading the FAQ, I bet it'll begin to grow on your.
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Let me correct you on that.
"Cause that would be Frustrating."
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A very interesting read, explains the fundamentals of games these days and what rule set they rely on for there games which could lead to there downfall or uprising depending on how they implement it and the attention they grab.
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- Childish design and graphics, the characters felt cartoonish and bulky like the characters off the movie "The Incredibles".
- Loot was horrible when finding different loot that had nothing to do with my class, continuously.
- Having to put points into stats that are worth nothing to my class to wear a piece of gear that was made for the class I played.
- The skills felt bland, boring, and unskillful --- The skills trees were boring aswell and I just threw points in without thinking about it.
- Pet AI was horrible - My pet got stuck alot and there was no way to call it back to me to help me fight.
- Quests were boring and the storyline felt bland and didn't keep my attention long enough to read the whole story, so I just skipped through quest text and continued doing what I was told to do for the quests.
Overall the game didn't keep my attention long enough. I really hope I don't feel the same way about Diablo 3.I'm happy I got the $3 deal that happened with steam because a extra $12 would of went to a waste.
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Hotkeys will be 1-7 I believe?
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With a SSD when you click on a program, it pops it up literally a second or less after clicking it.
The only benefit to gaming is loading times for example going to a new zone in WoW or getting inside and out of doors in New Vegas, they load alot faster compared to a HDD.
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