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Quote from lorien1973

Why make it so complex?

Chat Filters:
Repeated phrases over and over again. Gold spammers never say it once in the same chat message, it's always 5+ times.
".com" in the chat message (with or without spaces)

It's absolutely stunning that blizzard doesn't have some very basic filters in place. It's kids stuff.

There's an easy work around for the first one, and a significant problem with the second one.

For the repeated messages: instead of a macro that spams the same line, make a macro that spams 5 different lines. Filter avoided.

For the filter for anything with .com in the line: why punish the regular players? I like to share links to funny/cool stuff with my friends while playing D3. Why should I be punished because of gold sellers?

That's why Blizzard haven't implemented your apparently simple fixes. All your proposed fixes do is fight the symptoms, not the cause. I'd much rather put up with the spam for a bit while Blizzard fix the underlying issue, rather than have Blizzard always be 1 step behind the spammers in an endless and pointless war that ends up punishing the regular players more than the spammers themselves.

If it is next week, we'd know about it already. Diablofans are pretty good with keeping us updated with the latest news.

Just keep an eye on the front page: you'll know when we will.

Just over 200 hours it seems (the majority on my Monk: 177 hours there), and I'm still enjoying it. Sure, I'm not playing all day every day, but I don't need to. I pace myself, don't burn myself out, and it works great.

Blizzard's one of those 'by gamers, for gamers' companies. I'd honestly be very surprised if he didn't play D3 himself. I mean sure, I doubt he's one of the uber hardcore types, but I bet he's enjoying the game at his own pace.

To put so much effort and dedication into creating something, you have to enjoy what you're doing. You have to truly believe in it and want to spend that much time on it. He has to be a gamer, and the only way to know if you're making a good game is if you make the game you'd want to play. It'd just be bizarre to think otherwise.

That's the unfortunate thing about playing public. You could maybe try reporting him to Blizzard, but I doubt they'll do much. You chose to drop the item and the 'thief' was then able to pick the item up through legitimate in-game methods, so technically speaking no thievery took place.

You're certainly not to blame (the victim never is, you didn't ask to be stolen from). It's a lesson learned, at the very least. Sorry that it happened to you.

Quote from Ramsey

Conspiracy, or simple logic.

One thing that cannot be argued with is the fact that many people just don't feel as much satisfaction grinding for items as they did in Diablo 2.

Do you think that could be attributed to the fact that you were 5-10 years younger, so were more easily amused? As a child (or teenager) it's a lot easier to get excited over something. As you get older that excitement falls away and you are entertained by different things.

If you look at the games with as objective an eye as possible, you'll realise there's more similarities than you'd think. If you liked the item hunt in D2 but don't in D3, even when the item hunt is functionally the same (with minor differences for the sake of streamlining or changes to make it more fun), then chances are it isn't the game that is at fault: it's you.

You're not forced to use the RMAH, or even the regular gold AH.

If you don't feel excitement when getting a legendary or identifying a rare item, that's not something Blizzard can fix. The problem lies in you (and while I say problem, it isn't really: it's just that your tastes have changed, so you do not find the same things exciting anymore. Which is fine). I know I feel excited when I see an ilevel 63 rare drop, just waiting to see if I get something awesome (got a couple of really nice items so far).

You don't need to farm for 8 hours a day. You only need to do that if you care about being number 1: if you don't, then you can go at your own pace. There's no rush, so stop feeling like there is. Again, those are your feelings, not any fault of Blizzard's.

Step away from the game. Take your time. Focus on yourself. You don't need to touch the AH if you don't want to, you can farm everything yourself. Everything will take a lot longer, but that seems to be what you want, so.

So no, there are no fixes for the game to address your problem. Because your problem 100% lies within yourself. Don't blame Blizzard because of your own attitude towards the game.

On a final note, you seriously left your family for 2 weeks to play D3? As in, left the house entirely and left your wife to deal with the kids by herself? I can understand taking a week or two off of work, but leaving your family? Get your priorities sorted out.

I like how basically the only argument supporting a gear swap button is 'it was in D2, so it should be in D3'. And even then, it actually wasn't in D2 (was just the weapon swap), so...

D3 has taken all it needs to from D2. Anything else it has improved on. Compared to D3, D2 is utter garbage. Taking stuff from D2 just because it was in D2 is a really, REALLY bad designing process.

110k?! How?! When I sold mine, I got just under 20k for each. =/ I guess I sold at a bad time! Probably before the drop rate was nerfed from rares/magic items...

Ah well.

Oh gods yes please. This would be incredibly helpful. Nice to see you prove that it's possible too!

Definitely post to the official forums, ask for feedback there. (though please don't be all 'blizz read this NOW' or anything) Hopefully we'll see an improvement to the AH soon!

Well done OP, pro stuff.

EDIT: I like how in usual polls, there's always at least 1-2 people voting against the majority. You'll never get a unanimous decision. But in this one? 42 votes say yes, 0 say no. Everyone (so far) wants more search fields. Here's to hoping we get them.

Quote from Sylkvass

and why is that a bad thing, you mean blizzard dont want it becauase they loose revenue from RMAH?

More that D2 is terrible compared to D3, that's why you won't see the majority of your ideas implemented.

Segregating the community by itself is also a bad idea: ideally you want everyone playing with everyone else. Splitting everyone up arbitrarily just means there's less people to play with, which creates the (possibly mistaken) notion that the game is doing badly so isn't worth playing. The only splits have been utterly necessary: region splits, and softcore/hardcore.

The thing is... All you're doing is placing some arbitrary line, saying 'this stuff is fine to do, but this stuff is TERRIBLE AND YOU'RE BAD FOR EVEN THINKING OF DOING IT'. While there are other people who really don't agree with you in the slightest.

Essentially, all the RMAH (and the AH in general) does is streamline what went on in D2 anyway. In the most basic of terms, the AH is an automatic trading service. Compare the two transaction examples below:

Regular trading

You advertise that you have an item, on forums or in-game or to your friends
You get an interested buyer and negotiate a price/worthy trade
You arrange a time and place to meet
You trade the items and/or gold (with the potential to be scammed by the other person)

End result: items and/or gold are traded between two people.

AH trading:

One person goes to the AH, places an item on there and dictates the price he thinks is worthwhile.
Another person goes to the AH, searches for the item she wants, decides whether the price is worth it and buys the item.

End result: items and gold are traded between two people.

The end results are exactly the same, but the AH was so much easier than 'face to face' trading.. The two separate parts to the transaction can also occur at different times, while a 'face to face' trade requires you to be online at the exact same time.

How on earth can you say one method is fine, while the other is terrible? They are, at the core, the same thing. Trading. Just two different methods of doing it.

I suppose the thing that everyone gets caught up on is Blizzard's cut. The thing that marks them out as greedy and evil people. You know, ignoring the whole, server maintenance costs, employee salaries, and the fact that A COMPANY IS MEANT TO MAKE A PROFIT. IT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF THEIR EXISTENCE.

Microtransactions are the future of gaming. They aren't automatically an evil thing. If handled incorrectly, sure, they're bad: however, if handled in the right way, they can enrich a gaming experience and make it even better. They also wouldn't need to use microtransactions if, y'know, people stopped pirating games. But that's another topic entirely.

In conclusion: stop demonising real money transactions in gaming. They're the future of gaming and you may as well get used to it, they really aren't going anywhere.

In other words... You want D2 back.

There's a reason why D3 isn't more like D2, I'm afraid.

'A better solution than Blizzards [sic] 5 for gear swapping'

Ok, great. Let's have a loo- HEY WAIT A MINUTE.

When an item is swapped with another item that has Magic Find as an affix, you will lose a stack of Nephalem Valor for every item with Magic Find as an affix swapped in within 3-5 minutes of the most recent item swapped

There's a whole class of solutions that interact with Nephalem Valor. For example, we could remove a stack of Nephalem Valor when you swap a piece of gear.

Dunno about you, but that sounds exactly the same. You've just gone into a bit more detail, which, y'know, Blizzard would do if they used this method.

Quote from ab0ve

I wish they would just let us play the game. People getting better drops is only better for the game and enjoyment. If I want to swap my gear let me. It's not like it's an exploit anyone can do it.

The thing with that is that there's a lot of people who don't like swapping gear, yet feel forced to for the sake of efficiency. If people are feeling forced to do something, then something needs to be changed.

You may have no problem with it, but there's a lot who do. And yes, the game is meant to be fun, not work: that's why the change is needed.

That's actually a pretty good idea. Maybe this could be how they bring the... Oh, what was she called, the third artisan... Sorceress? She basically enchanted your gear with stats. She could come back and enchant our gear with magic find and/or gold find, or maybe other stats too. Only optional stuff, not main stats, or else it'll feel necessary instead of a nice bonus.