I'm getting fed upp with all this RMAH conspiracy nonsense crap...
It's easy to write everyone off as a consiparacist or tin-foil hatter, but think about it for a second; the RMAH is Blizzard's recurring revenue model for DIII. Recurring revenue is a desirable business model, they want to make as much money off of DIII as they can. There is nothing wrong with this, it makes perfect business sense.
However, when Blizzard says things like "item drops are not balanced around the RMAH" I just don't buy it. I don't think they are some evil entity with the sole intention of changing the game in any way that best suits the RMAH regardless of what negative affect it may have on gameplay (that would be a conspiracy theory), but do you honestly think it doesn't factor into the decision making process at all?
They built this feature for a reason, they're not going to make changes to the game that make it undesirable or irrelevant.
The game would NOT be fun if amazing items were not very rare.. every time I see someone type this comment your making (dont get me wrong, I see where your coming from, I just don't agree) I feel like the one saying it just isn't understanding the game. People talking about the item drops being ballanced around the RMAH are just making to big a blanket statement. The items in the LAST, HARDEST difficulty, inferno, need to be rare otherwise the game would become pointless very fast. (Everyone would have BiS gear within 50 hours of play time, and then everyone else would have it because all of those items would be on the AH, and then there would be no point to playing)
if they made a game with GAH/RMAH but made it so that it is absolutely not required then we can qualify that as a bad design, can we not?
Really?
REALLY?
Your just reaching out of sheer desperation now? An added unessential feature for player convenience is now considered "bad design"?
By this retarded leap in logic, Achievements are "bad design", Ladders in D2 were "Bad Design", Gathering Ears in D2 is "Bad Design", Trading windows is "Bad design"? (I could go on, but all of these features I have mentioned are NOT REQUIRED)
there is blizzards 15% cut on commodities which will probably be sold a lot more than items
1) No. Isn't that what most of the AH-haters want? It to be "optional?" Isn't the major argument against the AH that it's mandatory? So if being mandatory is "bad" and being optional is "bad design" what exactly do you want? To that extent it sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining. I miss the trading aspect of D2, but I have grown to accept that the GAH is not much more than a streamlined interface where gold is the base currency instead of SoJs. To me it's just not that big of a deal.
2) RMAH commodities aren't live yet, are they? The 15% (instead of a $1 per transaction) fee, as I understand it, is because the commodities (on both GAH and RMAH) don't really operate on a single transaction from the seller's perspective. I may be wrong, as I don't understand the inner workings of the comodities trades, but I don't really think the 15% on commodities is an outright ploy to line pockets. In fact, I really think the RMAH isn't that great of a money-making scheme to begin with. But, like I said in another thread.. given the choice of auction fees going to a 3rd party (eBay, D2JSP, etc.) or going directly to Blizzard, I'd much rather them go directly to Blizzard. Fees going to D2JSP certainly don't help along the gaming products that I enjoy.
I quit reading when I saw the first use of the word force.
Get a dictionary, OP (and the rest of you whiners who keep saying you're "forced" to do things in this game).
Also, who leaves their family for 2 weeks for a release? I should have quit reading at that point.
Like I said I'm not a native English speaker. What word should I use when I "feel" I'm being forced to do something.
I'm probably not the only one that did some drastic measures when the game came out. I asked my fiance if she was okay with it and see was, don't think I left my family 100% of that time I was at the LAN with close friends. I'm not that deuce. Se visit us at the LAN made fun of us being such nerds and I went home in the meanwhile.
If you don't "feel" the same as I do, I'm happy for you, not everyone can feel the same way.
I quit reading when I saw the first use of the word force.
Get a dictionary, OP (and the rest of you whiners who keep saying you're "forced" to do things in this game).
Also, who leaves their family for 2 weeks for a release? I should have quit reading at that point.
Like I said I'm not a native English speaker. What word should I use when I "feel" I'm being forced to do something.
I'm probably not the only one that did some drastic measures when the game came out. I asked my fiance if she was okay with it and see was, don't think I left my family 100% of that time I was at the LAN with close friends. I'm not that deuce. Se visit us at the LAN made fun of us being such nerds and I went home in the meanwhile.
If you don't "feel" the same as I do, I'm happy for you, not everyone can feel the same way.
There is no other word for it - you can't even "feel" forced. You either are, or you aren't. In the case of Diablo, there are absolutely no consequences for ignoring the RMAH, or the GAH, or anything else you don't want to do.
You won't be sued, you won't be banned, you won't be hacked, prices won't triple for you, your cat won't catch on fire, nothing. Absolutely nothing negative will come as a result of ignoring features of the game you wish to ignore. That choice is the exact opposite of "forced.
I'm sorry, snowhammer, but I completely disagree with you. I played D2 for 10 years, the overwhelming majority of it spent in SP or small LAN/tcp ip games, and let me tell you this: I saw many of the good items in D2, and I didn't need to trade, didn't need to go to D2JSP, and didn't need to grind 8 hours a day. The exception to this were the very top high runes; i never saw those, but they were way too rare. What I'm saying is that getting your own upgrades in D3 (totally ignoring the AH) takes WAY longer than in D2. You tried to make it sound like it's not like that, but it is. You can add to that the fact that items in D2 were way more inspired. In D3, all you're hoping for is "bigger numbers". You want gear with more Dex that you already have, with more Vit than you already have, more crit, etc. In D2 there were loads of items, especially Sets and Uniques, but also Rares, that had affixes that were DIFFERENT. Not just "oh, cool, these boots have 50 str more than my current ones, so technically they're an upgrade, hurray". The items in D3 are lacking in the 'flavour' and 'variety' department, i don't think anyone can argue with that.
AS a D2 vainilla and Lod Classic i gotta say, that D3 lacks in various aspects. First, there were 99 levels... Yes for some people that wasn't important, but for some it was, and it was fun to do so, while you were also finding out new gear. It was a long way back in the days to achieve max level, and while so, you would find lots of amazing stuff, maybe you didnt find godly items, but the affixes, and mods on D2 made a lot of rares much more interesting than the itemization. Blues weren't boring, i did even see people using White weapons! Mercs > Followers. But the main thing is the AH. It takes out the mistery of finding some of the best stuff by your own, or by some mysterious merchant (aka another player trading an awesome/godly/great) piece of gear that upgrades you. The game is less social, involves less time talking with others, AH ruins it, cause when you finally get to find something you think it might be decent, and you could get some profit from it, there is 100+ persons that already posted some similar item likes yours, and way undercuting the real value those items have. Its like, nowdays ppl only pays for semi-perfect, perfect rolled items, the rest are worthless, and you gotta drop them into the trash can.. That's not fun, along with the RNG that makes you barely see any Leg/Set drop until you're 60 (for a lot of us) and spent 200+ hours....
PS: Atm i have found about 20+ sets/legs that are crap, and went into the trash can. I didn't get a single jewel pattern yet, and i've spent about 400+ hours already... 200 of those hours with 255% base mf.. (No swapping gear)
I'm getting fed upp with all this RMAH conspiracy nonsense crap...
Yea it's pretty funny that Blizzard is 'forcing' everyone to use the AH. I haven't bought or sold a single thing on the RMAH, and only have used the GAH a little, and i'm having a blast farming inferno and leveling other alts. Ya'll need to settle down =D
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The game would NOT be fun if amazing items were not very rare.. every time I see someone type this comment your making (dont get me wrong, I see where your coming from, I just don't agree) I feel like the one saying it just isn't understanding the game. People talking about the item drops being ballanced around the RMAH are just making to big a blanket statement. The items in the LAST, HARDEST difficulty, inferno, need to be rare otherwise the game would become pointless very fast. (Everyone would have BiS gear within 50 hours of play time, and then everyone else would have it because all of those items would be on the AH, and then there would be no point to playing)
Really?
REALLY?
Your just reaching out of sheer desperation now? An added unessential feature for player convenience is now considered "bad design"?
By this retarded leap in logic, Achievements are "bad design", Ladders in D2 were "Bad Design", Gathering Ears in D2 is "Bad Design", Trading windows is "Bad design"? (I could go on, but all of these features I have mentioned are NOT REQUIRED)
1) No. Isn't that what most of the AH-haters want? It to be "optional?" Isn't the major argument against the AH that it's mandatory? So if being mandatory is "bad" and being optional is "bad design" what exactly do you want? To that extent it sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining. I miss the trading aspect of D2, but I have grown to accept that the GAH is not much more than a streamlined interface where gold is the base currency instead of SoJs. To me it's just not that big of a deal.
2) RMAH commodities aren't live yet, are they? The 15% (instead of a $1 per transaction) fee, as I understand it, is because the commodities (on both GAH and RMAH) don't really operate on a single transaction from the seller's perspective. I may be wrong, as I don't understand the inner workings of the comodities trades, but I don't really think the 15% on commodities is an outright ploy to line pockets. In fact, I really think the RMAH isn't that great of a money-making scheme to begin with. But, like I said in another thread.. given the choice of auction fees going to a 3rd party (eBay, D2JSP, etc.) or going directly to Blizzard, I'd much rather them go directly to Blizzard. Fees going to D2JSP certainly don't help along the gaming products that I enjoy.
Like I said I'm not a native English speaker. What word should I use when I "feel" I'm being forced to do something.
I'm probably not the only one that did some drastic measures when the game came out. I asked my fiance if she was okay with it and see was, don't think I left my family 100% of that time I was at the LAN with close friends. I'm not that deuce. Se visit us at the LAN made fun of us being such nerds and I went home in the meanwhile.
If you don't "feel" the same as I do, I'm happy for you, not everyone can feel the same way.
There is no other word for it - you can't even "feel" forced. You either are, or you aren't. In the case of Diablo, there are absolutely no consequences for ignoring the RMAH, or the GAH, or anything else you don't want to do.
You won't be sued, you won't be banned, you won't be hacked, prices won't triple for you, your cat won't catch on fire, nothing. Absolutely nothing negative will come as a result of ignoring features of the game you wish to ignore. That choice is the exact opposite of "forced.
This!
PS: Atm i have found about 20+ sets/legs that are crap, and went into the trash can. I didn't get a single jewel pattern yet, and i've spent about 400+ hours already... 200 of those hours with 255% base mf.. (No swapping gear)
Yea it's pretty funny that Blizzard is 'forcing' everyone to use the AH. I haven't bought or sold a single thing on the RMAH, and only have used the GAH a little, and i'm having a blast farming inferno and leveling other alts. Ya'll need to settle down =D