Being able to use real money to purchase in game power is unfair. It allows people with more disposable income to gain an advantage over other players. Particularly with ladder coming out soon, and with people competing for position on that ladder, being able to buy valuable upgrades to speed up their grind causes an obvious imbalance in fairness. This isn’t really disputable.
Early on during ladder this isn’t as much of an issue, because these items will not have been found yet. As time passes, these GG items and high runes are found and get sold. The players willing to pay for an advantage, or who have already accrued wealth in FG, will be able to use this external edge to gain an in game advantage.
Money dont equate to No 1 race on ladder
i was No 2 ranked in the 98 list 7 years ago
what win the race is whoever has an absurd amount of time to play at the start of the race…let alone that your in good health to be able to manage 36 hours gaming session in a row…class choice and character was build with smart and not stupid choices…dedication to restlessly run lvling up room
there also another huge contributing factor…can you get a full restless team that consist of the following to run Chaos Sanc spam ?
1 Hammerdin with Conc Aura
2 Hammerdin with Conviction Aura(aura get to affect wider range if both Conv pally dont stay too near each other)
the Conc hammerdin has to stand between both to provide Conc aura to both
1 Necromancer that can apply Amp or Lower Resists curse
4 Lightning Sorc blasting all around the Conv pallys at sickening speed
room host toss tp at river immediatly so those loading in a lil slower get to walk with him right away without having to go to wp(River exp is just as good as Chaos Sanc exp)…Sorc teleporting to Chaos Sanc entrance is optionnal but does help a lil to dodge the river maze that walking has to deal with
EDIT: lessening it to 3 Light sorc is also fine if Barb is wanted for Survival ;)…3 will still blast stuff at high speed with mobs loosing -212% resists XD
A blanket assumption with no basis. Just because you did it without using the website one time in the far off past, doesn’t mean others haven’t gotten higher than you in any seasons prior or thereafter, with the use of d2jsp. It certainly won’t stop them from trying to get an edge in the upcoming ladder seasons either.
You know who has a lot of spare time and are generally in good health to do whatever they want? People with enough money to burn thousands of dollars casually, on a website that sells the best gear, once it becomes available on ladder.
All I’m saying is that while the website is technically legal, its existence provides an opportunity for less fair gameplay methods. With the upcoming ladder, it will undoubtedly delegitimize the placing of several players, not that I particularly care. I don’t usually participate in ladder. There are people that may take issue with that though, and I understand their reasoning for it.
i never used d2jsp at all…not even once…and the only reason i stayed at no 2 spot ? i lost dedication to keep going for the final push(Burnt out)
ya overestimate money big time…group composition and dedication matter way way more than what money gonna get them
well if you ever leveled a char up pass 95 you should know how brutal the last 4 lvl are to do…money ain’t going to give ya any bits of dedication to push that last 4…the best money gonna get someone who has no complete dedication is like top 100-200 at best…and it also wont net you a group composition if you dont fish for a team composition that obliterate everything(even in junk gear)
i think you dont realize how BROKEN the CONVICTION AURA is…it enable the absurd 1 shotting everything even in scrap gear to casters teamate
Money and dedication will win out against pure dedication. If they have better gear than you to clear things faster, and have the same composition, there’s no reason why they can’t outpace you.
Money doesn’t cover everything its true, but if you’re dedicated and you have the money to shore up any holes or inconveniences, its an overwhelming edge against others.
wont win out vs pure dedication…the time invest mean everything
a 8 sec faster chaos sanc(they should not net more benefit than that from top end gear vs a fully well built team)…800 second for 100 run(approx 12 mins save a day) wont beat someone that invest at least 1 hour more of gameplay per day
well i’am ending the arguing here…weither ur convince or not
Because it says it is against the rules right in the TOS. Why is it you people love to say something but yet never get your facts correct before saying them.
Try reading the ToS it instead of putting stupid replies like 3rd party sites don’t impact the game or saying it’s not against the tos.
And how would they get rid of d2jsp? Do you realize d2jsp is a private website not affiliated in any form with blizzard and so blizzard has no legal bearing on it? It’s like asking mcdonalds to close the burger king. If you can’t grasp such fundamentals, no wonder you have no idea how d2jsp works.
it’s all about money
But it’s not. This tired argument is meaningless because it’s extremely expensive to buy d2 items by buying forum gold for real money. People who want to rmt will use much cheaper websites.
I still don’t know the real reason behind people being against d2jsp. They’re like anti vaxxers, very confused.
This will probably be my last reply to this thread (simply because reading the same incessant comments is no longer amusing). So here we go…
For those that keep preaching “…it’s against ToS…” the ToS does not say purchasing a virtual currency from a non-affiliated (3rd party) site is against ToS rules/regs period. When someone purchases said currency from said non-affiliated (3rd party) site, that currency is then used to aquire goods and services offered by said non-affiliated site. Services offered cover a gambit of different games, and yes, facilitating TRADES for D2 is one of them, but not all of them.
People can cry and complain all they want, but those complaints are nothing more then emotionally driven opinions with zero actual basis in facts.
Always remember, facts don’t care about your feelings.
^ Very much agree here. I have tried trading in-game. Then you can use the trade forums here and get their b-tag and then just have to wait until you are both logged on and can trade. Can take minutes. Can take hours. Can take weeks to where the buyer forgets and ended up getting it another way.
Just a thought …