AC1 had no professional gold farmers though, Mithan. Or if there were any, it was insignificant (never got a single Pyreal selling advertisement in AC1 during all the years I played).
That's a huge difference.

 

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This is just a choice you have.

D3 isn't like an mmo in competitiveness, so who cares if Billy Joe Jim Bob sells the Twin Swords of Pwnage to someone? It does not impact your or my game play at all.

I never intended to play D3 outside of my "circle of friends", so I don't care what people do on the AH, i won't be going there anyway, as always, the fun of D3 is getting the loot, if i can just buy it, will kill the game 'early' for me.

And let there be gold farmers, it's not like this is a 'global' game, if you don't let them into your games, they can't possibly bother you.

 

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Good idea on Blizzard's part, it will work good for them when it comes to gaining money from a game without monthly fees. Curbing outside cash sales is a smart choice for them also.

Not very good for the players who are casual and want to take part in trading. It's going to screw with the value of items having RL cash involved.

I do agree with Thericia's points though. If you are playing by yourself or with other people you know, it's not going to impact you much at all. All the items do is help you kill mobs and get loot quicker, which is essentially the point of the game.

 

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I've got bad news for you. Microtransactions are going to be in almost every game starting pretty soon, a lot of them are already incorporating it into games that didn't need it before. If you don't like it, you might as well just stick to games out now.


Also, comparing D2 to D3. Lawl.

 

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Crap like this just encourages people to bot. It is already insanely easy to get away with it in WOW. It was insanely easy to get away with it in D2. Who says it will be any harder in D3?

Good thing.. Bad thing?

Buy game, bot, profit?

 

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Yes, but most are restricting it to cosmetic/fluff. Both SWTOR and GW2 won't have micro transactions for gear like Diablo 3 has. They will be for stuff like customizing your appearance, pets, etc...
In Diablo, it's basically a real life money based AH. Your performance in the game will no longer be linked to your time invested playing, or your skill, but on the depth of your wallet, and the size of your stupidity investing insane amounts of money into a video game, too.



"Lawl" all you like. It's still a 2.5D fixed camera graphics game like 10+ years ago. For immersion, it's just not good enough in the age of DX11 and almost realistic 3D graphics. Stylized graphics like WoW or SW:TOR are fine, but fixed camera "look down from 45°" stuff without ever seeing the sky or landscape is past for me. Of course, it's only my opinion and my perception of "immersion".

 

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It may be true that bots are going to be encouraged and used anyway, but this way Blizzard gets a piece of the pie in most cases. Not a bad thing for them.

 

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There is no need to give a flying flip about anything in this quote, it's largely still a "single player" game or a "small group" game.

So if me and my group are out getting our gear and having fun, why do i give to squirts of urine, if you or anyone else is spending real life cash on stuff?

Honestly, WHO CARES?

 

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Blizzard's ongoing greed and looking to bilk players out of extra cash beyond the money they make and have made from their wildly successful games is getting old. Just make games and stop with the bull.

I find it hard to believe that Bliz won't sell enough copies of D3 to pay for development and make disgusting profits. Do they really need to come up with ways to milk their customers for more, and is it worth delaying production to include garbage like this in that game? It's a freaking action RPG...it doesn't need this garbage.

Torchlight 2 will probably be out before D3, with about 1/10 the dev time, and will have online co-op, and will probably be as good a game. Or at least I hope so, because maybe waiting for D3 isn't worth doing.

 

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ohh torchlight 2!!! can't wait for that one either!

 

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