- Real Money AH
- Gold-based AH
- Will use both
- Won't use the AH at all
If you need more information on the Auction House System, you can check out PhrozenDragon's recent post. In last weeks' poll, we wanted to know what you all thought about Cooldowns, and it seems like the majority of you trust Blizzard's judgement with the 2-minute CD, as a whopping 45% of the votes went to it (with 1-minute coming in second, with 30% of the vote).
And this time around in the DiabloCast, we were allowed to talk about the Press Event! That in mind, we some pretty awesome PvP discussion (sorry!), as well as some talk on the new Rune and Skill systems, and what we expect from the Beta. If you missed the nineteenth episode, you can check it out here. Otherwise, the twentieth episode covered the following topics:
- Diablo 3 Press Event Visit
- The Auction House Explained
- Runic Revision?
- Skill Points Removal Fuels Game Controversy
- Activision/Blizzard's August Financial Conference Call
- It Ends with Diablo
- More Beta Buildup
If you've missed any previous episodes, check the archive!
The interesting thing is that most of the buyers are likely to be people who wouldn't be coming to a fansite of a game well before its release. Even if everyone who said they plan to only, or mostly, sell were being truthful (or at least accurate), there is still a massive pool of buyers to be had.
edit: grama ez da beist
why is everyone so sensitive lately?!
I just remembered my early D2 days trying to trade items in the chat channel spamming a summarized list of my items and waiting for someone to whisper with an offer. Or may entering games with the "TRADE" title and waiting for ages for someone with gear that interested me to appear and make offers that normally weren't good for me at all. All the games "ITEM X FT" that I had to rush into before someone took the item.
The AH in D3 may not be perfect, but it will be awesome nonetheless.
I am not against the RMAH, but I prefer to enjoy the game and not take half the game away from myself by buying gear.
I will buy and sell as well, not only in the sense of attempting to "play the market" but also looking to cheap deals to speed up the gaming process.
If there is low demand for spending real $$ (which I honestly doubt) while there will be insanely high supply (because people are simply claiming that they will only sell, which I also highly doubt) then I will only be happier to spend $1 to get millions of gold/items that'll take years of farming to acquire.
I believe that the people who spend $$ to buy in game items are not the minority, it is just they tend to hide in the shadows, or are simply hypocrites.
I believe the true minority are those that will never use the auctionhouse due to some principles. For those of you claim to be one of those people, I would like to know who you are, what you stand for, and hopefully track you for an update 1-2-8 years down the line after release.
This is ultimately the reason why many claim to not like the RMAH. People are easily tempted, the weak-willed majority are simply too afraid that legitimizing the system will only serve to break them, however they will rarely admit that fact.
Why cant people simply admit that the reason why they feel that the RMAH should not be legitimized is because gaming is used as a fantasy tool to escape from the harsh reality of our capitalistic society?
I have a feeling everyone will adopt this method.
EDIT: I should probably take this time to talk about how to design a poll for future reference. Poll options should be exclusive and exhaustive. Exclusive means that it should be impossible for multiple poll options to be true simultaneously. So, a choice of option A would totally exclude options B, C, and D. Exhaustive means that all possibilities must be accounted for. Here's an example:
Do you like the taste of chocolate?
A) Yes
No
C) I've never tasted chocolate
The poll options are exclusive - it's only possible for a person to fall within one of these categories. The options are also exhaustive - it's impossible for a person not to be described by one of these categories.
A poll must follow those two principles in order to draw any statistically valid conclusions (which is the whole point a poll). Obviously, the other consideration is to the set for which you can apply those conclusions to, but that's another topic.
Pvp wasn't supported in D2 except that you could kill other players. The way I look at it D3 already has way more features in place than d2 had and besides D2 was very competitive even without those features so I wouldn't just yet let this get to you pvpers I don't see anything wrong with the current system in place. They can only improve on this in the long run. Also don't worry about what gear someone has jay and bashiok have already explained that matchmaking will definately differentiate by ur gear.
So these are just a few of my own thoughts of why people shouldn't be raging so much.
the people complaining about d3 are forgetting everything that was wrong with d2. d3 is fixing the things that were wrong and keeping the things that were right. but people fear change like cavemen feared fire. i do wish pvp had a ladder or ranking and such but those things will probably be done by 3rd party sites along with tournaments.
IMO RMAH won't be broken unless blizzard lets botting,hacking, duping etc run rampant like in d2. *coughdailyitemauditspleasecough*
There's plenty to do - a blue post (or a few) have stated that they are open to feedback on gameplay, systems, and potential bugs/exploits found.
I don't look at the beta as a way to get a quick fix, but as an opportunity to give feedback with potential to make it better for everyone.
D2 beta became more than just Act 1. Maybe the public beta stress test was limited to that act only, but the testing worth getting your name mentioned in the credits eventually went through Big D.
Use the time your given wisely.
@gabbzy, there will be tons of buyers. we are the minority not the majority. the majority of players will be noobs who do buy in game items with money cause it's easier.
Your wrong... there will be plenty buyers.... Why?
1. Casual player that works full time job that has no time to farm gears for pve or pvp.
2. Buy low/Sell High people
3. People that sold stuff... uses that money to buy other stuff without cashing out.
4. People are desperate.
5. Rich Kids
etc....