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SeriousWB on 04 August 2011
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Ail said:
SeriousWB said:
Ail said:
Weigruf said:

If the items don't affect the challenge is ok with me. If they do, I won't play it religiously and maybe I won't buy it day one. I hate games that offer services like that, another reason I am not touching any free-to-play MMO out there.


It's not going to be much different from D2 where the game was plagued by third party sites selling ungodly items ( stuff you woudn't find playing the game hundreds of hours).

It's not like they are planning to sell items, they are offering a way for players to sell to each others....

It is going to be much different.  I can't fathom that some of you can't see a difference between third party sites selling items, being a shunned practice, and Blizzard endorsing and legitimising this to the mass market.  I find it messed up that gamers today seem fine with the idea of purchasing power; yes you're condoning this bullshit concept.


it might have been shunned but in practice every weapon with a half decent rune word you traded for after patch 1.10 was a dupe coming from some third party site., so in reality it was rampant. Heck pretty much every D2 class guide you find these days tells people to get gear they can not get legitimately by themselves in the game...

 

Seriously, how many of the people bitching here have played D2 on battlenet in the last 5 years ???? Before complaining, go see the reality..

I play D2 regularly thank you very much.  I find it funny that your only argument to this is botting.  If D3 hasn't overcome botting it will be exactly the same, nothing about this has anything to do with botting.  The difference as I keep trying to bash over your heads is that a myriad of people will be more inclined to purchase things.  The average, casual player will not go to a third party site to buy items.

@Vertigo-X: You're exactly the same, please pay attention.  If botting is still in D3, you will get exactly the same whispers.  Please do explain what at all the auction house alone does to combat botting.  Heck third party sites wouldn't need to close if their prices were that competitive.  It's like you have ants crawling through a hole in your wall and to try and fix this you demolish the wall.

Finally I reiterate, you guys are just condoning this nonsense of purchasing power.

Also to you guys more concerned about the lack of single player mode, the Blizzard VP was surprised there was backlash at all.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2011/08/04/blizzard-vp-surprised-over-fan-reaction-to-diablo-3-online-requirements/