I mean why would any “goldfarmer company” farm diablo items for blizzard-only-money. the “worst” thing they could do with their money is pay for their gruntlings wow-subcriptions…

For those who feel bad or gets upset by the thought of beeing “beaten” or “outgeared” by some one who has brought all their gear for real money, I agree to a certain point. But we must remember that isnt something new either…

If if you automatically go around and think “that guy brought gold for money, or that one is ebay” you would not have been able enjoy online games the last decade, so I dont undertand why you wold think D3 was different to begin with. If you play WoW chances are quite high someone in your guild has brought gold, leveling, or items for real money atleast once and I dont think you can honestly say that that player has ruined your game fun / experience. No offence tough, I still dont support buying things with real money(its quite lame imo). I just think its something we have to accept and its somewhat better that its legalized than happening unsafe in the shadows.

Regarding the last discussion point regarding offline/online play, I think this is something we have to get used to in the future. It is a effective vay to limit cheating and piracy. And who are we to blame in the end? Next time you download a game , remember why theese online requirements are getting more and more common. (Not that I think you download games but ya get the point . Anyway thanks for a good reading and see atleast some of you in D3.
// Silver

I heard that hey might release the Auction House for testing puproses in the beta! Im looking forward to it!

Best regards,
Alex
Diablo 3 barbarian skills

Truth is this auction house is going to push in a whole new world into an already huge universe. It’s going to be extremely awesome to see what the future holds.

From what I’ve read there won’t be a cash out mechanism, so people won’t be able to earn money in any real sense, beyond covering their blizzard expenditures, like wow subs. If I can’t put money in my actual bank account by selling items I’ll be much less likely to sell things instead of using them myself.

I think the end result of the RMAH will be what the poster above said about high-level runes – the player will have a choice between spending time (gold) or money when pursuing highest-level equipment. To me, that seems like an improvement over the old model, where cheating, 3rd party sites, or massive time investment were the only ways to get very rare items.

Also, online-only doesn’t mean multiplayer-only; you can still create a closed game and play exactly as if you were offline. I can see how this would still be a negative for some people, particularly if your internet connection was unreliable, but from my experience with SC2 it’s not that intrusive to log in before playing.

I don’t want to sound like a Blizzard fanatic but if they handle the RMAH properly it shouldn’t interfere with people who just want to play the game, and will in fact make for more liquid and accessible markets for players who want to max out their gear. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if the implementation matches our best hopes or worst fears.

a) they are legitimizing gold-selling so any rich scrub can become more powerful than me in seconds;

b) they are making it online-only, without making it a proper MMORPG;

c) they are making it purely PvE game and balancing around PvE only.

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No, I’m not going to buy that.

Online game without PvP is like an expensive car without suitable roads to drive it on.

Online game that promotes items-for-cash is like a racing event where you must bring your own car and any car is allowed. If you don’t have the money to buy a better car than your competition – your problem.

Have fun. I’ll await for Torchlight development.

My knowledge of how the supply of these items is maintained is outdated, but the main methods in the past have been botting and item duping. Botting will easily get you banned, and if you found a good bot online, chances are Blizzard did too and will get you eventually. Also, dupe methods are highly guarded secrets so you won’t find any to employ unless you discover a method yourself as most of the methods posted online (again, back when I played several years ago) were either bogus or patched. (I don’t know if there are dupe methods that still work today, but with as broken as D2 is I would be shocked if there isn’t).

The point is, high runes were simply inaccessible for me since the drop rate was SOOOO STUUUPPID-LOW, I didn’t have a dupe method, didn’t have a bot and little desire to learn how to run one, and didn’t know anyone that had these things to help gear me up. So for $5, I get 20 high runes and totally pimp out my character OR, do seemingly endless and fruitless Baal runs and maybe get 1 high rune after 2-3 weeks? The choice was easy. Not to mention, playing Diablo was my hobby. I can think of a lot more expensive hobbies to sink money into, so it really is far from a waste of money as far as supporting hobbies goes.