You’re hitting the progression wall precisely, because you don’t have inherent damage from skill points.
In D2 those made sure you can still progress, even if you’re playing naked.
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Trial and error with a consumer product is not how any business runs. That is how lawsuits happen.
Notice how nobody agrees?
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OK Koolio, people are beating around the bush a little about your opinion, so I’ll lay it out crystal clear. Everyone is entitled to opinions, but the respected opinions are those grounded in actual facts, not fantasies. You’ve been pretty much told why AH failed, on SOOOOO many levels, yet you’re not getting it and continue to cling to an opinion that’s just hot air. LET IT GO !!!
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i do what i want and you don’t get to tell me what to do…lmao i think its hilarious you guys get so worked up about it must be [Removed] for any of you to accept that its been and will always be they worked with it once and they will possibly work with it again once they sort out the details.
Truthfully speaking, I actually feel sorry for people like you who want it back, when it’s clear that Blizzard has no intention to actually bring the AH back, at least not in the way that most of you would want it to return.
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I think some type of trading post would be OK… Each item has a weeklong window that it can be traded before it becomes bound to account. You can post an item with an ISO message. Any who are interested offer their item(s) in trade, they are temporarily removed from inventory until the trade is accepted or rejected. Upon completion of any trade, all items in the trade are immediately bound to account.
Even then, people would still find a way to exploit. It’d be back to 3rd party selling websites. The timeframe would be really tight though, and of course with bind on account after the completed trade eliminates the ability to flip items for profit.
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That works for Blizzard too.
They’ve told you that the AHs are not coming back.
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You should stop that. It’s not working out for you.
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^^ It’s comments like this that start trolling flame wars in forums. ^^
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I made $250 off of the AH, more than paying for anything D3 related in the end. I still consider it a definitive failure though, since it was core to the philosophy that thoroughly ruined vanilla across the board. And I ultimately hated it almost as much as I do loot boxes.
To further iterate on this, Blizzard made sure to steer clear of the legal morass when they brought out their WoW Token, which can be bought in-game with gold for game time (30 days) or real money from the website in exchange for gold (you buy the token, get the gold, which comes from another player ultimately whom gets the 30 day game time from the token). In that sense, the AH functions as an exchange, not a means of manking real life money.
There’s pretty much zero chance of Blizzard ever going into the real money bit with an auction house ever again. Even with just the legal aspects that go with it, the perception issues alone would likely kill a game faster than legal would.
Sadly, loot boxes were born out of the industry looking for ways around that legal morass, only to have created a new morass in the process, along with even more hated mechanics of course. Very few players actually like Gacha systems.
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The problem was the low drop items.
But everything is solved simply-the item’s drop remains the same and the auction works. Buying things for money is necessary for people who do not have the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the game. Having 30 minutes a day to play with the same path as now, it will be much easier for me to buy item than to farming it for a couple of hours.
And add an in-game store where you can sell clothes for real money, but with lower characteristics, 10% lower than that of the farmed one. And you will buy items and farm better ones later.
Even if legendary items are not tradeable, the rare items are tradeable, and Blizzard said that they are planning to make Yellow and Blue items remain competitive in the slot, so people will just buy the perfect rolled Yellow, and then use the legendary consumable to make it BiS.
Honestly, IF Blizzard had a GOLD ONLY auction house it would still be around, even though there would be people actively against it. It’s still in WoW, right? Granted it’s in a more socialist form vs. what it was originally, but it’s still there.
The REAL MONEY auction house is what nearly killed D3. That was a bad idea. That was Blizzard trying to make D3 into an active money maker. All that did was cause kids to dual wield their parent’s credit cards and others to play it like a daily stock market vs. playing the game.
However, I am relieved that it is gone. To me it wasn’t Diablo, it was World of Warcraft. I took a break from WoW to play D3, not to play WoW in another form. Yes, I used it. Most the time I did, the item I was looking for was either sold at a price I was farming for or it was just too dang expensive. So, I just ended up playing the game anyway. Of course I ended up with a ton of gold I couldn’t use when the auction house went away. That was a bummer.
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I hope they don’t, at least not a real-money one.
In-game currency should be worth something though (one of my biggest griefs of D2).
The thing with D3 is once you got the loot the game was over, so AH didn’t work so well there. Here’s to D4 being more AH-compatible.
i think its fair to say the least that if i put my time and energy into it to gain any loot i have a simple sense of ownership of that item or loot therefor if i put some effort into it i earned it and should have the right to sell it as my own personal item or trade as too, if i desired to. and being that gold could be sellable it would allow players the opportunity to farm the auction house to work on builds and for those that don’t have the amount of time on there hands to play often allowing an equal experience of gameplay for both hardcore players and the light players. yet as to what exploiting goes for any game out there has exploits it is near impossible to remove all exploits from any game now a days with how some people are.
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You don’t and it isn’t. Digital items are the property of Activision Blizzard Inc. and ownership is non transferrable. You can use them only as long as Blizzard allows it in ways they allow. The terms of service you agreed to say so. They also have no cash value. You can give any reason you like for wanting it but the fact is it’s not legally possible and never will be. No matter who you convince on the forums it won’t matter because the lawyers don’t read them and won’t be moved. You might as well ask for the sun to rise in the west.
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the take of what i said is a sense of ownership there for its matter of perspective and not a matter of what a prerogative is.
I guess this just boils down to the fact that overall gaming experience for us matters more than your perceived right to make, or try to make, money from playing. They need not cater to you.
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i may need to have you all bare in mind haters are gonna hate…such is life.