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"I hope they can find another solution other than the two you suggest,

Maybe im wrong but i do think that the main issue for Non -AHers is the inability to progress without excessive grinding."

If you dont want grinding... You sir are playing the wrong game. Diablo is 1 big none needed gear grind. And sup with "the ah requirement to progress" its been shown and proven a gazillion times you can complete inferno in absolutely crapper items. Because you want the finest shinies in every slot, but without having to invest the hours to do so. In order for that to happen, imagine how the drop rates would be? everyone would be running around in BiS gear in a month. Its supose to take years of hard work to get the finest gear, either via 5 million act 3 runs or via trading.

I personally wouldnt be playing this game if they removed the RMAH, i enjoy having the chance to be rewarded with real money, for either my dedicated farming or clever moves trading. Its a genious move in my oppinion by blizzard introducing the rmah, it really makes the game more exiting.

I'm only paragon lvl 37, yet i enjoy doing runs. I love the game for its posibilities in economic matters. Im currently at 1.6b gold and 4380 made on rmah. Both numbers are increasing daily. I LOVE it. Blizzard managed to inside of a good game, create an awesome economic game. People who talk about the game is not rewarding. My paypal account says otherwise :=) And yes it can be about luck, finding that 250 euro item. But ive not been that lucky yet. I made my fortune by being clever on ah, doing my research - a little example: Who do you think grabed 40+ close to perfect SoJ's (28-30% elite dmg) with the good class affix for less than 2 mill each? Moi. They already increased to 50m and i reckon they will increase to over 100m each in 1.0.5 when people realise its going to be the BiS ring for farming ubbers and keyholders on mp10 for pretty much guaranteed drop rate. Yes now they "suck" because elites doesnt have much hp. But say hallo to 30% elite dmg when stuff got 150+Million hp. Ladies and gentlemen, we got a new BiS ring incoming and those of us who were clever already stockpiled our new Fortune. Did i mention how rewarding this game can be? You take the effort to learn the know how, you take the effort being on top of things and it gets rewarded with real money.

I think the issue we got in todays gaming world, is the average age of players have rocket dropped to new lows. And thats why we see in each and every game how the *QQ ruins everything over time. Just look at what happent to wow. Everything is being casualized and it make games worse. Before you flame me to death, its just a little personel theory ive had : p

If beating inferno was the end game your post would be relevent. But it isn't, the end game is being the biggest badass possible.

I am not saying that they should give us gear, and if you have played the PTR you would know, they aren't, the increased droprates are not crazy amazing UNLESS you are on MP10 para 100, in which case I bet you get a very nice increase in drop rates.

I can clear a1 on mp4, in about 3 hours, and I mean clear clear, I kill every white mob. It is not meant to be effecient, I just have fun doing so, I get to do this twice a week, once on sat and once on sun. I would say on average I see 1-2 legendaries per clear, most drop from white mobs. This is a very nice contrast to live servers, wher in a3 in my runs, I see a legendary once a week.

Now people are saying this will be giving free loot, but out of all the legendaries i have found, only 1 is worth anything, and even then it didnt roll super amazing stats, a nats ring, no cc or cd on it though, just 90 some dex and a socket, big deal but I dont have one on my monk so ill keep it incase i get the boots for the set bonus. I have found some very nice rares which i would sell on live, and even 3 that were upgrades. I havent found an upgrade on live for 3 weeks. I am part of the majority, the casual players who want this game to succeed, and I believe these changes are a step in the right direction.

TL:DR The end game is of course the grind, but on live the grind is not as rewarding for the casuals as it should be, this patch is a good step for everyone.

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@Huminator: please don't take this personally, I really don't mean to offend you, but, to me, your views represent exactly what's wrong with this game, and gaming in general, nowadays. To say that you wouldn't play this game if you weren't 'getting paid'....I don't know, it just confuses the hell out of me that there are people that only have dollar/euro/pound signs in their eyes. Naive? Maybe. But it lets me sleep at night.

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I don't like the AH for a very simple reason - I like playing more than I like browsing. But even more than I like playing I like being effective. When being effective and having fun conflict with each other that's where the games becomes much less fun. Even Blizzard themselves said that a good game is one where being effective and having fun go hand in hand rather than conflict with each other, and I very much support this claim. Unfortunately, their design decisions don't implement this philosophy very well, and the changes they implement every patch don't bring them any closer, either.

The game is still cool and way better than any alternative out there, but is quite a big disappointment in the aspect of "having fun vs being effective" rather than "having fun being effective".

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Bliz is a terrible company. They are not looking to please their customers at all. So a few of you complain... you're like 0.001% of their economy. They just don't care.

Its not blizzards fault people are stupid and get scammed. Blame the stupid people who keep scammer in business rather than blaming blizzard.

Its more than getting scammed.

people get scammed because the system is so easy to exploit in the first place.

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Bliz is a terrible company. They are not looking to please their customers at all. So a few of you complain... you're like 0.001% of their economy. They just don't care.