I feel having a loot display (outside voluntarily linking the item) sort of defeats the purpose of having personalized loot, let alone the RMAH. You know people are just going to whine about how you're being selfish because you want to sell it, rather than give it to them because "it's an upgrade for my alt". This can also lead to people blacklisting you, because you upset them.
If I get an item, I shouldn't be berated or influenced into making a choice whether to keep it or trade it. Personally, I think not showing the loot prevents a lot of unneeded drama and whining.
I don't see why this would happen. I would never give up something that is an upgrade for someone's alt since that doesn't even make sense to do. Plus they can't know its an upgrade to their alt to begin with, since the legendary won't be identified so you can't even see the stats on it when it drops.
Not everyone is logical. This wouldn't likely be an issue in a private game but anything in the game that is bad enough that people can only avoid it by not playing public games is just asking for the inevitable illogical people to annoy you. It doesn't matter that you may have the option to boot, it's another annoyance to police. If someone wants people to know that badly that they got a great item, I'm sure nothing would stop them from spamming channels with the item link (even WITH this feature enabled).
Let's consider that Legendaries will not be more powerful than perfectly randomized Rares by design...so it's cooler to get a perfect Rare but it wouldn't feasible for them to detect that you've looted a perfect one for your current build.
The most important reasons have already been covered.
Actually what pisses me off is how much in detail Blizzard would go into for something so small of a detail while other major controversies don't always get the attention like this.
Lol, so if im into F&F beta, streaming and sharing all the info I aquire (no NDA), press/media is useless then.
What's the point in press, if by the time they are allowed to cover the beta, i'll get all info on my little site and gather all cream?
Exactly. <_<
Well the main selling point is these are all amateur videos, you'll be seeing VERY in depth videos all at 1080p with every class when DFans gets into press beta along with Force narrating.
Are you insinuating that every single person who isn't press and has access to the beta can't make high quality videos that rival "press" videos? Because if you are not then there isn't a ton of incentive when someone else can do it right now. The beta is brand new so good videos take time...and possibly less time than it will take for Blizzard to let press get involved. Frankly it was just dumb not to include press in this F&F beta if they were not going to include a NDA.
-Wizard appears to be the highest dps at low levels.
-It looks like it's hard to die as the witch doctor, your zombie dogs don't die very quickly and you can spam some spells forever with high mana regen at lower levels
-and the barbarian looks like he will be very gear-dependent(go figure, because melee weapon based characters that are meant to tank damage have never been gear-dependent before, EVER!!)
-Haven't seen much demon hunter, but they seem kinda slow dps before they get AOE spells.
-Monk is similar to barb, sorta. I doubt they get any worse (compared to other classes) as levels unlock new skills/abilities/gear. Once you have enough gear your efficiency exponentially increases. That's just how melee's and weapon damage based classes are folks.
Most games don't scale caster abilities with weapon damage. D3 does. It's not going to be quite as dramatic with the differences between caster and melee gear scaling.
Ok, backing off my previous sentiment. Enable it by default on private games (with the option to disable), disable it enforced (no option to turn on) for Public games. We don't need to start segregating the community by having to filter public games by that option.
wow 3 years for Diablo expansion? The WoW expansions have to amount to a hell of a lot more work and I don't think any of them took that long. I know he said "within 3 years" but really it should have read 2.
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Not everyone is logical. This wouldn't likely be an issue in a private game but anything in the game that is bad enough that people can only avoid it by not playing public games is just asking for the inevitable illogical people to annoy you. It doesn't matter that you may have the option to boot, it's another annoyance to police. If someone wants people to know that badly that they got a great item, I'm sure nothing would stop them from spamming channels with the item link (even WITH this feature enabled).
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The most important reasons have already been covered.
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Awesome post. Awesome sig.
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Are you insinuating that every single person who isn't press and has access to the beta can't make high quality videos that rival "press" videos? Because if you are not then there isn't a ton of incentive when someone else can do it right now. The beta is brand new so good videos take time...and possibly less time than it will take for Blizzard to let press get involved. Frankly it was just dumb not to include press in this F&F beta if they were not going to include a NDA.
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Most games don't scale caster abilities with weapon damage. D3 does. It's not going to be quite as dramatic with the differences between caster and melee gear scaling.
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