I don't particularly need any of the questions answered. If there's an exploit abound I do what I assume most normal people would - I wouldn't exploit, risking my account. Especially considering the amount of games and time soaked into it.
I can answer one of your questions though. Transparency will not help anyone in this matter. You, me or any other player have absolutely 0 power over these sorts of decisions, so knowing the exact details is pointless, closing in on "just stirring things up", which is good for neither us, nor the company. And no, we're not reasonable adults. You really even think that? What, you don't visit the official forums? Facebook?
Is Valve transparent? Is Bioware? Nintendo?
Fallacy spotted.
Seriously, it doesn't matter how others act, you just used an argumentum ad populum.
Who cares man, sometimes you can judge the basis of validity on colleagues and peers actions. The fact is, they don't have to do anything. You're not a damn shareholder. This isnt a stock holders meeting. If Dorito's decided they were going to change the fucking cheese formula on their chips do you think they would have to have a press release about it if someone found out? The fact theyre doing anything about the snafu is better than nothing. The proof is truly in the pudding on this one, so when we get the AH back, then we can start to draw some conclusions about what damage has been done or what the state of the economy might really be like.
Yeah, because this poll isn't helping the situation at all.
What Blizzard doesn't need is people stirring up more trouble. Let them do their work. The freeze on gold trades indicates that they very well may be making targetted transaction rollbacks so as to un-do the gold injection but so as to also not punish people who have been playing the game for the last 24+ hours. You know, a win-win solution.
Telling me that I have to forefit close to 200 million XP as a result of an exploit that I never had any interactions with is EQUALLY as unacceptable to me as not rolling back the transactions is to you. If they contain it sufficiently they can manage to please us both - for that we should be happy.
But, for the love of God, don't make their jobs harder by acting like one of the Blizztrolls on the official forums.
Yeppers....
I'll state 3 truths, and anyone here is welcome to hold me to it.
1: Blizzard is addressing the violators directly today. There will be punitive action taken, along with the loss of whatever profit they made.
2: All gems sold will be given back to the selling parties and their profit from said transactions removed.
3: The economy will quickly re-stabilize and all will be back to normal very expeditiously. As a matter of fact, the suspension of so many of the games worst exploiters will provide an easement for the economy to stabilize even faster. By the time the guilty return, Radiants will be approx 20m a pop and gold will settle into it's proper cost per the RMAH.
I didn't see any literature regarding that, maybe I misunderstood what they're doing exactly, or perhaps, they have not said themselves exactly what they're doing.
Over the past month I got about $55 of self found loot, and about $150 (maybe a bit more) from flipping. And I was already really lucky on the self found part since that pretty much consisted of 2 good items (Str/Crit Mempo and High Dex/Vit Vile Ward). If I hadn't gotten those 2 items, my found items value would have been about $1.
During the first 3-4 or so months of Diablo 3, farming WAS worth it. Content was a little more challenging, so not everyone could do it. That meant:
1) Not everyone can do it
2) AH wasn't flooded with items
For me, the problem now is that everyone can farm items, which means: relative to other players, the drops I find aren't nearly as good anymore. And since there's a flood of items on the AH, a lot of them are regularly posted at ridiculously low easily flip-able prices.
So those 2 factors combined basically means that flipping is just more effective than farming. The only situation where farming would be a faster way for me to make gold again is when content is difficult enough that not everyone can do it at super speeds. As long as there is such a large amount of loot being found, there will be a constant supply of underpriced items on the AH.
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With that being said, I'm actually sure that I've found more than enough self-found items to have done MP10 on Barb, Monk, or DH had I kept all the items I've found. To me, I'd have to say the drops really aren't that bad. It's just that flipping is that much better. Also since I didn't keep and use my self found gear, I'd have to say the items I found and sold last month are worth like TWICE the total of the gear that I'm wearing. Which says a lot about how I don't even care about getting better gear because the content doesn't require better gear.
Farming in this game is just simply too easy and requires too little gear. Using a bit a strategy and ~85m worth of gear including gems, I've already gotten farming rates higher than many people that are wearing Billions of gold worth of gear. Which of course brings us to the point where it's pretty obvious that better gear doesn't do much in this game aside from showing off to friends.
That last part is extremely true. I was helping a friend out with gear the other day and every time I go to gear up or help someone gear I have to take 10 minutes of my day to explain to them that there is a magnificent diminishing returns effect on the price of gear and the amount of gains you actually get from it. That being said, that unfortunately generally segues into the whole "itemization is fucked, the foundation of the gameplay is skewed" discussion
She doesn't know what shes doing. She even says that she "got the account from her brother" and that shes "new to the game" however, she already has over €100 donated. It's just pathetic.
I love a mans desire for procreation but for fucks sake I really wish the ladies would stop streaming for male attention. I dont know who's to blame, the streamer for exploiting stupid hopeless men into donating money for stuff or the stupid people who are so hopeless they have to watch an attractive girl stream... You see this on basically any popular game at the moment.
I think the 5 stacks will feel a little more valuable in consideration to what we've heard about 1.09 so far. I think the over-abundance of bad rares and bad legendaries make a player feel that MF/GF is pretty worthless at the moment. Once itemization is addressed and the things we find will be a little more intrinsically valuable, the bonuses we already get will seem to be pretty awesome and definitely respectable.
Resistance and Armor are the only defensive sources that have diminishing returns. As far as I know the rest of the suppressive abilities in the game either apply a debuff to the monster that makes it deal less damage or a buff to the player/party so they can't be stacked in a outrageous way.
I'm unsure what you meant but I feel like you might be under the impression that getting for example 40% damage reduction from armor, 30% reduction from resistance and 30% reduction from some ability that you will end up taking 100% less damage which is false. One source first decreases the damage you take and converts it into X, then the next source decreases X into Y and finally the third decreases Y into Z which then gets subtracted from your health. So you can't reach a complete damage immunity but reduce it so significantly that even a small amount of life regen will keep you alive.
PS. Armor, Resistance and suppressive abilities (as long as the tooltip doesn't specify otherwise) all reduce both melee and elemental damage.
Technically, armor and resistances do NOT have diminishing returns. There are quite a few threads explaining this.
I could care less about typical profanity. The only words that bother me are ignorant dumb asses using pejorative terms like "nigger" "fag" "jew", basically any prejudice word. Surprisingly, you see that kind of talk often on B.net and I report that shit FAST. you can call me a mother fucker, or an ass hole, or whatever, but don't be callin' nobody racial slurs or prejudice remarks. I'm not saying you were using words like that, but I will say I'd be damn surprised if you got banned for telling someone to "fuck off" or something.
In your defense, I do agree that if theres a mature language filter those who are sensitive to such literature should utilize that tool (and its on by default) So the fact they turned it off, got upset, and reported you makes me a little sour. However, if you were speaking in the terms I said, well, you deserved it. I just don't see Blizzard banning someone for using typical profanity.
I'm sorry, maybe I'm the only one who thinks this whole thing is just irrational. Blizzard, in regards to Diablo 3, really aren't in a position to be pushing people away from one of - if not THE - most popular styles of play. I strongly encourage them to explore new avenues and give the Whirlwind/Run Like the wind build some competition and not a nerf. Look at all the synergies that go into that build. It's beautiful. Barbs need more flavors. If you sold 5 flavors of popsickles and one was the highest selling flavor, you wouldn't suddenly make it taste worse to sell the other flavors, you would fix the other flavors.
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Who cares man, sometimes you can judge the basis of validity on colleagues and peers actions. The fact is, they don't have to do anything. You're not a damn shareholder. This isnt a stock holders meeting. If Dorito's decided they were going to change the fucking cheese formula on their chips do you think they would have to have a press release about it if someone found out? The fact theyre doing anything about the snafu is better than nothing. The proof is truly in the pudding on this one, so when we get the AH back, then we can start to draw some conclusions about what damage has been done or what the state of the economy might really be like.
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I didn't see any literature regarding that, maybe I misunderstood what they're doing exactly, or perhaps, they have not said themselves exactly what they're doing.
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That last part is extremely true. I was helping a friend out with gear the other day and every time I go to gear up or help someone gear I have to take 10 minutes of my day to explain to them that there is a magnificent diminishing returns effect on the price of gear and the amount of gains you actually get from it. That being said, that unfortunately generally segues into the whole "itemization is fucked, the foundation of the gameplay is skewed" discussion
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Technically, armor and resistances do NOT have diminishing returns. There are quite a few threads explaining this.
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In your defense, I do agree that if theres a mature language filter those who are sensitive to such literature should utilize that tool (and its on by default) So the fact they turned it off, got upset, and reported you makes me a little sour. However, if you were speaking in the terms I said, well, you deserved it. I just don't see Blizzard banning someone for using typical profanity.
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