Diablo 3 Beta Preview Released, Buy Items With Real Money Revealed

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SeriousWB said:

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/

my argument is duping not botting.

The gear that those sites sell does not come from botting, no amount of botting is going to provide you with an infinite amount of Zod runes or uber powerfull rune words . Especially when you look at the price those guys are selling...( dirt cheap compared to the time it would take you to actually farm the items...).
What blizzard will provide compared to those sites is the knowledge that every item sold through Blizzard auction will most likely be legit...

The other difference is that those sites sell stuff that is unatainable for 99.99% of the players whereas on Blizzard auction you will purchase something that was obtained in game by another player so something actually attainable...

 

So basically you do not like a change that will most likely have no impact on you if you decide not to purchase anything ?

And do not take the casual for dumb people just because they are casual. You would be surprised at the amount of Wow players that have purchased in game stuff with real money and Wow does not provide any auction mechanism for this. People know this stuff exist and they know where to look.

Anyway I don't get why this bothers you, I have played MMORPG for over  10 years of my life, there has always been players buying in game stuff for money and it has never bothered me. I've never purchased anything and in one game I actually sold a load of in game cash for real cash ( Star Wars Galaxy) .