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They said feedback has changed since Beta.... there's an obvious reason for this. In beta, you have a more intelligent population, aware of game mechanics and balancing for long-term playability. In the current population, let's just say the bar is lowered.

Many of you have stated that there needs to be more to the game than just the item hunt, and we agree completely.

Sales mean nothing if the game doesn’t live on in all of our hearts, and standing by our games is what Blizzard does. Patch 1.0.4 is a step in the right direction, but we have no illusions that our work is done.

'players 8' command -- ... to allow players to make up their own minds about how hard or how easy is right for them.

^^

Everything we want to hear is being said. I really, really hope this follows through to actual implementation. It's been said before.

On a side note, the structure of this statement makes it incredibly clear how the PR liason helped craft this mission statement. It's pretty textbook. (Acknowledge mistake, supply defense, supply personal emotional background shifting the aggressor into a defender, address a desire to solve issues without locking into real answers, and finally, come full circle and repeat the apology and thematic statement) There's nothing wrong with this, everyone in a corporate or political setting does it. It's just funny that we've socially come far enough to see through the process :).

All in all, a needed communication. It wouldn't have sat right to let 1.0.4 sweep the incident under the rug. Thanks for talking to us and keep it going!

In my experience prices aren't lower - item quality is higher. There's a difference. Reading through these pages, it seems that a (albeit brief) nostalgia for what things were worth have clouded people's judgement of their current value.

I have no problems whatsoever selling items in the 6-digit, 7-digit and 8-digit ranges. So long as you're competent and understand how to correctly price 4-6 affix items despite the 3-filter limit, you shouldn't have to relist often. I've only had to repost maybe 10% of my listings. The rest sells.

In the last few days I've sold two 30m items, four items in the teens and at least eight 6-8m items. The rest of my 10-slot listings are generally in the 100-500k range and turnover a couple times a day. I only mention this to illustrate things are selling at every player's economic level.

I save up an entire inventory (2.5 tabs plus my characters inventory = ~110 items) of 62 and 63 items before identifying them. This will generally result in 15 to 20 items that I think will sell. This causes a backup for my AH slots of a day at most. The throughput has remained steady in my experience.

I'd be more than happy to help people price their items if they're looking for some guidance. I've done some youtube videos this week and will continue to do more. I understand it's a little daunting at first, but the 'know how' will pay for itself if you dedicate a little time to learn the ins and outs of D3's economy. (GamingandTheory on youtube)

+ xp gear will be dwarfed by the amount of damage you're sacrificing in wearing it. Not to mention it's a very small amount at higher levels.

Rubies are going to be amazing because 31% is always 31% but +200 at 60 is not the same as +200 at level 5.

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Who the HELL brought this BOGUS A#! world of warcraft feature into diablo 3....

Bul-Kathos Wedding band...... it takes TWO!!! to be in a marriage! maybe i want to wear the other freaking ring? Can't duel wield the Legendaries and there going to be fixing to suck compaired to rares. But i guess with blizzard they want items to be on the AH so they'll force any reason on us to sell items.

lmfao love it when people get mad and have no actual argument and instead revert to 'blizz wants us to use the AH!!!!'

Firstly, I know, I'm a crazy person. I have rapid cycling BiPolar and am Manic right now, so I apologise if this seems... erratic (I like to think of myself as a slightly saner Mordin Solus when I'm like this, if you read this in his voice, I would approve):

Early after launch, someone asked for a fourth search slot, and a blue responded that they were running out of UI space to add a fourth. I was looking at the search tab, and felt that the UI there could be improved. I've helped a few people with their games (I'm a games writer and journalist by trade), and so gotten along with a lot of devs and artists, all of which have explained to me the use of keeping things 'tidy' and to make sure that everything matches to the best of ability.

I'll just show you the picture, easier that way:



Now the picture on the left is Blizzards current setup. As you can see the gaps between fields are all over the place in size, there is barely any standardisation between them. This allows me to add an additional field for searching, while almost maintaining the same 'free space'

Interestingly, I would also edit the individual search fields. I would move the red box down 1 pixel, then shorten the box entirely by 1 pixel, so that way both top and bottom of the search field match (See purple, 7px/6px). It looks like there is a pixel of space extra there for that button, so shouldn't be hard. That would actually give them MORE space.

They could also instead of making it 15/5 make it 20/5, but that would run them into a space defecit of 7 pixels. these pixels could be taken from the very top and bottom if required, since these need less space, and the difference would be barely perceptable. With the additional search box and search box tweaks it's an 1 pixel space increase, even at 20/5.

To give you a rough look at how the two search tabs would look side by side.... (left side is nicer looking due to double save on right side)



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