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- Bridge_Burner
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Member for 14 years, 2 months, and 24 days
Last active Tue, Jun, 5 2012 19:48:22
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Mar 21, 2012
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Nephalem Valor BuffI think this is a great idea and it really covers off everyones objectives. We are killing more which expands the end game content, more loot drops for us which everyone wants. A nice little addition ofr both of us is well is the implications for the RMAH. More good loot drops = more items for sale of high quality on the RMAH = Lower prices because there is more supply on the market. This also makes Blizzard happy because it can potentially mean more trades on the RMAHPosted in: News -
Oct 5, 2011
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Beta Key ContestHere is my submission!Posted in: News
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Jun 17, 2011
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Diablo 3's StoryWell done! This is just building the anticipation even more, if it already wasn't driving me crazy haha! The progression seems to make sense and deffinitaly made me aware of things I wasn't before, thanks!Posted in: News
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Jul 20, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on How Soon is Soon™Here's hoping that we find out a lot in October. Great article Scyber!! From a business standpoint it makes sense why we have so little new information. They have to drum up as much interest in blizzcon as possible. Its not just about diablo but all their other stuff as well. The more they can get any fan interested in the convention, the greater the chance fans will buy other products right now. You could say its the clam before the storm right now.Posted in: News
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Apr 5, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Diablo II Urban LegendsA superstition I had way back when I was playing a lot and had my mf characters around 2002 was to never make a town portal on the same level as a boss. So for example I always did meph runs and I would set my tp on the durance level 2, never level 3. Don't know if that ever acctually did anything though! hahaPosted in: News
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Mar 10, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on The Past, the Present, and the FutureI don't know if I'm crazy about the new resource systems. I liked the trademark mana, but hey I'm open to it. Knowing blizzard they will do it well. I love the fact that they went back to the tetris style inventory. I hate being able to carry like 20 weapons and armor at a time, just seems rediculous hahaPosted in: News
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Mar 3, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Diablo III, Featuring BoEPosted in: NewsQuote from "sylvainh2o" »Remember in Diablo2 by example when someone would put his name on a personnal item and then nobody wanted to buy it from him or at a fraction of the price? Well now we won't even be able to sell most of our items anymore so no more trading almost and this is supposed to help Diablo3 economy??? .
This isn't really applicable because its just completely different. The reason no one would want it is because there were so many other ones available so why take one that was personalized? Also I think you may be confused as to how many items will be BoE. Blizzard came out and said it would only be the elite high end items.
Quote from "sylvainh2o" »What if like everyone else i use items that at some point gets useless because i level up and then i would like to trade them to someone that needs it... Oh now i won't be able because it is now bounded to my character so all i can do is sell it to store or just delete it
Again you won't really have a problem with out-leveling BoE items as they will be the best ones you can get, can't go up from there
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Mar 2, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Diablo III, Featuring BoEPosted in: NewsQuote from "Gulliver" »This is my first post so be gentle please
I'm from Finland btw.
First of all welcome!
Quote from "Zhar" »And naw, that would probably be pretty bad for the economy, because said cap would have to be constantly adjusted with the amount of players and accounts, else the highest items would reach a ridiculous price, and thus, instead of having an oversaturated economy, we'd have an undersupplied economy.
Zhar got it right, plus I think that would take away an element to the game. Even though I probably will never find a certain item, If I know for a fact I won't then I won't even try to do mf runs ect. As much as doing Meph runs over and over.... and over again sucks, I'll admit there is always that excitment when the drop comes! -
Mar 2, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Diablo III, Featuring BoELike Bashiok said BOE is not a magic bullet, just one of the many aspects to control an economy. I think BOE is a great idea and I am glad they are having it. Its going to make it harder and take more skill. People will have to learn how to play with what they have more. There will be less "cookie cutter" builds as well as in every WW barb has to have THIS weapon ect ect. I just think it will force characters to be a bit more diverse.Posted in: News
As far as the economy, if you took it in school and actually understood it you won't be arguing on how this will kill it. Its going to fix prices and not have them fluctuate like crazy. What is the number one risk to currency? Inflation. How do you cause hyper inflation, de-value a currency and destroy it? Flood the market with the currency. That’s why countries, for example Canada, have a central bank. They fix how much currency is floating around in the market in order to keep the value some what stable. Take Vietnam. A while back they built a bunch of infrastructure. To pay for it they just began printing money and devalued the absolute crap out of it. Now the Dong is so low its really not even worth dirt. I know this is long and there are many more factors that go into currency valuation but this is just simple short example to try and demonstrate supply and demand.
Supply and demand is the basis of economics. What I was trying to show with the example is if you can control the supply you can fix prices somewhat. The demand for high level items will always be high of course, so fix the supply as well, you fix the price. There will be a little fluctuation of course but that’s what you want. BOE will help control this supply. Again it won't be a magical fix but its a step in the right direction for sure. I think we are all taking the D2 economy as well and applying the changes to that to see what the effect will be. This is just simply flawed. The D3 economy will be completely different and my guess is it won't be an item based economy. Expect a shift to the gold standard; it’s the easiest thing for them to manipulate the levels of in the game.
Again, I apologize for making this post long but I want to give one more example of the effects of controlling supply to kind of drive the point home. Everyone remembers when oil prices per barrel went crazy, up into the $150 per barrel at one point. There are a lot of reasons why this happened and that will be WAY to long to go into but for arguments sake let’s say it was completely because the supply and demand was out of whack. Again before I get some people trying to pick that apart I know that’s not the only reason why, again, arguments sake. Anyways the Saudi Arabians came out and said they wanted, and felt, oil should be at around $75 a barrel. Check the prices I believe it’s at around $78 today. It took a while to come to that level and there were fluctuations as with any open market but look at a 12 month chart and you can see it come up and level off around $75 for around the last 4 months. How did they do this? Controlled supply. When your one of the largest oil producing nations you can do this.
BOE is just one of the engines Blizzard is going to use to accomplish these ends. As I said before my bet is we are moving to a monetary standard so controlling the supply of the items will fix the monetary value of the item. Now, to control inflation of the actual monetary unit we will use there will be many gold sinks the game that they have already talked about. Same basic principles apply to that. So now Blizzard will control all supply and therefore fix prices and demand. Demand moves as an adverse function of supply (forgot to mention this). As one increase the other decrease and visa versa. Fix one you basically fix the other.
So, in my opinion, bravo :thumbsup: Blizzard your head is on the right track and you are well on your way to making a much more viable economy! God I can’t wait for this game haha.
(Wish this would have happened in university could have used this for the beginnings of a paper :P) -
Feb 14, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on Sanctuary Through Rose-Colored LensesWait, so you mean it was a fake article??? Awww damn it I was so excited to spread love in sanctuary it would have been my first class! Haha seriously though awesome Scyber, Happy V-day everyone!Posted in: News
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Feb 11, 2010
Bridge_Burner posted a message on The Lighter Side - Storms and FingersPosted in: NewsQuote from "emilemil1" »Sounds like something you would say about Chuck Norris ^^
When The Female Monk does push-ups, she isn't pushing herself up, she is pushing Sanctuary down. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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To me an aura is permanent, not something that is a short burst. Maybe they wanted to stay away from that to avoid too much similarity to the Paladin, or maybe it would make them > then others in a party situation due to the constant buffs. Who knows but either way I'm sure it will work out, just release the damn beta already so we can see a light at the end of the tunnel haha
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I've been lurking around the site big time for a while haha, but its time to post again. This deff got me interested, and hello to everyone again I'm back
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I digress haha, so, what would be the best monsters for me to mf? Right now I'm just doing Mephy runs
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I'll trade you the taser I have for one of your pool sticks?
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