Players can put items they find into the auction house and you buy it with REAL MONEY. Activision has taken a hold of Blizzard, all the news on Diablo 3 has just been letdown after letdown. No mods, full DRM with no offline support, real money AH, and no LAN.
I honestly feel like I might just buy Torchlight 2, Diablo 2 was one of, if not my favorite game ever, and Diablo 3 is just turning out to be such a huge letdown.
Oh, and Blizzard charges you a fee to put items in the real money AH, regardless of whether or not they sell. And if they sell, they also put a fee on that. Why doesn’t Blizzard just change its name completely to Activision?
What rules ?
Blizzard legalize goldfarming but with their rules : they make it so disadvantageous for players to discourage them.
And not giving mod support is a way to prevent exploits.
I don’t care if this is in. I care about two things, and these are three reasons (of many) why im not buying D3:
No music by Matt Uelmen - The atmosphere he created with Diablo 1’s music was jaw dropping
no more STAT DISTRIBUTION. That’s right, one of the staples of Diablo’s character development is gone. They said that it was too confusing for players to have these 5 points to go into stats, and they didn’t like how players had builds, so now the game DOES IT FOR YOU. WTF.
Art direction - it’s been said before, but it’s still very important. I thought Diablo 1 was the best because even though D2 had more features Diablo 1 had much better atmosphere, and that had a lot to do with the superb music and art direction. Diablo 2 still retained some of this, although it was toned down (I loved the horror aspect of D1, so this was kind of disappointing for me :/)
Diablo 3’s environments look like the lovechild of WoW and Guild Wars.
Almost forgot, PvP is now done in arenas, no more open world PvP -that’s just stupid.
[COLOR=‘Orange’]tl:dr - Diablo 3 sucks because they are WoW-ifying it and taking out all the GOOD aspects of it’s predecessors
The AH is both gold and currency-based. You may go for one or the other. None of the items inside of the AH are sold exclusively (meaning players can still find everything in game with out spending a dime).
Players can make cash off of the items they sell inside of the AH, as said by here under “functionality”
Meaning for an additional fee you may attach something like a bank account to your Battle.net account and the proceeds will be forwarded to said account.
It’s not so much Activision it’s more along the lines of a good business decision, the consumer can make cash off of the useless items they find in game, and Blizzard gets apart of the proceeds as a fixed fee after the item is sold, and if you’ve passed your quota (I hope it’s not a fixed number per account creation, else their servers will be filled in no time, and maybe something like a monthly posting for each player, which the cap can be increased with some additional feature) you require some fee to list the item in the currency auction house.
It does multiple things, one of which is thinning out the third party bots that fill your screens in Diablo II. Another thing it does is allow the game to pay for itself many times over and allows players a way to gain cash off of their hard work in-game… for a fee if you are over your quota.
So no Activision is not making their nitch on Blizzard, more along the lines the players are steering the direction so to speak. I for one like this feature, it means money, quite a lot of it if you have a particularly valuable item that you’ve spent a lot of man hours hunting down but have no use for.
Not sure what’s wrong with selling stuff for real money? Valve does it and people are not complaining. Not to mention the fact that people have been selling game items for real money on auction portals like ebay and such. Now they just make it legal and secure.
Disregard what I posted earlier.
So basically it means that you can sell shit you find ingame for money? There’s no problem about that really, sans a big fucking impetus for duping. But that duping would now be a criminal liability since it’s now p.much equals directly swindling users for money. No loopholes anymore.
Which is really good. At least as long as they manage to keep the item turnover integral.
Or does Blizz introduce official vendors, aka making the cancer that is killing DII (now who am I fooling, already killed) official in D3? Because what we have now is a completely fubared virtual commodity circulation in a matter of 2 days after ladder reset.
Now here’s hoping that this system (if it is option 1) and the state of the art network code required for this makes it to D2: LOD as legacy support. Overly optimistic, but still.
^ It practically means that players using the currency-based AH can sell their crap for cash, it’s still up in the air I suspect Blizzard will have something in place to prevent the shit that plagues Diablo II at the moment (I hope, my confidence with them is slipping) anyway, you don’t have to buy anything, you can simply sell your un-needed crap if you don’t want it.
Essentially it will thin out the cancer that is plaguing most games, as for an official online store, I’m unsure, that may be later or it may not.
Read the subj. few moments ago. It looks good on paper.
But LOL at the video.
Wtf is this awkward PoP2008/WoW watercolor tribal bullshit in isometric perspective w/ crappy animations ported from wow and Diablo 2 soundboard put on top?
They did make it feel a tad faster though. And barb seems to look like barb, but
WHERE’S MY MIDIEVALZ?!
But hey it doesn’t look half as bad. Good job.
Or is it just me not giving a flying fuck anymore?
Take a wild guess, Mr. Lee.
I guess nobody fucking cares.
Oh well, back to Diablo II: Lord o… oh shit, wait… motherfuckers.
Blizzard, you can and will GFYS unless you do a proper legacy support for my honestly bought DII battle chest.
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