Hello,
I don't post on these forums much though I've been a Diablo 2 player off and on over the corse of 6-7 years roughly. Going from the bottom of the economy through the top(minority). All I've seen is post after post as I've read through blue posts etc of people bashing the RMAH. The top end of the economy was not done in game for Diablo 2. Rather on a website called d2jsp. This website promoted buying "forum gold" with RL money then trading that FG for items to other players. Is this not the same thing? How many people boycotted D2jsp when they actually learned the system set in place and had all of that at their disposal? Reguardless, it was still a minority of the game. 95% of public characters had no idea was d2jsp was. I'm assuming now that the game is at a specific poin almost everyone would know about it and use it. I haven't played in quite some time. In 1.08/1.09 duped items ran rampant. Most people traded for these items in game (not buying them) with their own items. Most not knowing that they'd disapear. These items ran the economy of Diablo 2.
My point in this post is that the RMAH is just giving a legit way of what is already happening. People complaining about this are ignorant. Why would blizzard (being a good gaming company) allow ways for you to be scammed? They're giving players what they're already doing wether admiting to or not players "ebay" their items. This simply takes away scaming because Blizzard is giving you a secure way of doing this. Who are you going to trust with your money more? Blizzard who made the game or joe shmoe down the road who runs a website? I'm not saying I'll use the RMAH whihc I may use it once in a blue moon to sell / buy. I'll more then likely never put more then an initial 10$ into my account and plan on making money before spending money (E-Balance). People did similar things with d2jsp. They'd start and buy 100fg or w/e to get them going then they'd trade their items for FG.
How many people on d2jsp cried that they were scamed? You'd have to spend time finding a moderator for any bigger trade and even then you'd have to trust that person. IF the trade was big enough I'm sure they'd take the items as well. Njaguar the host of d2jsp would have to promote these "moderators" based on what he's been told from other players etc. I'm sure they've run into multiple instances where moderators kept the items IE: Ending with players out items. With the RMAH this CANT happen.
Furthermore, Blizzard is a COMPANY. They need to make profit off of a game consistently for them to continue to run that game, pump money back into it. How can you pay employee's to do something when your "losing" money on? Look at the timeline gaps for "content" patches for Diablo 2. Players should welcome the RMAH and use it if its going to push content patches / server matinence etc. The Diablo 2 scene ran rampant etc because why would Blizzard dump money into the game when they aren't making money off of it. Box Sales aren't enough its not a static form of income and can be very sparatic. They didn't do updates frequently to combat hacks / mods etc because there was no point for them to do so. You can't justify paying an employee to do something that costs you money if your not making money.
Also, love posters like Firce or whatever bashing people with valid opinions. At the end of the day an opinion is a opinion wether wrong or not most of them are still valid and worth conisideration. Simply calling people names because your frustrated because the point your trying to prove isn't getting accross is ignorant. If the game frustrates you that much and the changes they are doing frustrate you that much simply stop posting and don't buy the game. 1 Person's word doesn't matter. Yes there is conflictions to the RMAH etc but until the full game is in your hands and your playing it and its fully operational/being tested you have no idea what your talking about. They can continuously try to tell you in text what your looking at but is endgame even tested yet? Do you kno the drop rates of rares / legendaries / set items / good items from artisans? No you don't. We don't, only they do. The people creating the game having the entire thing infront of them would kno better then any of us to an extent. Everyones view is different.
/endrant
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*Couple of hours later*
Hmm guess I'll make a new char cause its a VIDEO GAME.... yup play for fun, who woulda thunk it. What happens if your playing and suddenly a tree takes out your power and you die, do you blame blizzard? God? Your misfortune? Shit happens deal move on, its just a game....
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Nah sexual favours gets you betas
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Your math may be exaggerated but you are right. Killing things faster is optimal. You kinda shoot your self in the foot at the end, higher MF isn't much better than increased chance of dropping items.
Higher MF will allow for a better chance of finding quality items and other items by a ridiculously small chance. Example 0.000012321453% * 22% = crap all. Remember any specific magical item in D2 was way less than a 1% chance to drop.
Higher chance of finding an item applies the same rates finding an item but probably of lesser quality but since the numbers are so low it doesn't really matter.
In the end killing things quicker is your best option.
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By the way it was me who shit in your cornflakes this morning.
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Whats the problem again? A class is never played the same throughout the life line of a video games there are bound to be changes.
Balancing = revamping skills, this can also be known as content change during patching. This doesn't delay anything and its not drastic.
EDIT: Sloppy typing
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Don't feel secure, don't use the internet. There is risk to everything but as the previous posts state, if your educated, with separate accounts with authenticators you'll probably be fine.
Never had a problem with paypal and all transactions are within blizzards systems not paypal, that's for the cash out.
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My favourite logic!! I was drunk so I didn't pee in a toilet, I pee'd outside... soon I'm going to pee on your rug then on your head muwhahahaha! There is no stopping me!!!!