Brevik and the factions within the D2 community

[MicroRNA-1507]

@TOPCommander-1945

The way I understood the personal loot demands was that whatever is dropping now, should drop for every player individually, which would ruin the market and get everyone geared in 1 day.

The way you understand it is not what we have described.

@MicroRNA-1507

This is a widely held misconception about personal loot. The way it works is:

Global multiplayer loot game has X total drops and Y players.
In the similar, personal loot game, each player receives X/Y drops. The total drops are X which is identical to the global loot game.

As an example (using averages and ignoring the standard deviation of a binomial distribution):

A global loot game with 4 players drops 40 items total. The personal loot game with 4 players will drop 10 items per player on average (ignoring the complication of the standard deviation). Both games drop 40 items.

@Geezer-11142

I think as it stands, the only way personal loot should ever happen, is if after D2R has millions of hours played, and we can see how much influence pickit has going forward.

The original Diablo 2 had millions and millions of hours played in the first few years. Since its inception and in the early days, one of the biggest complaints was FFA loot in public multiplayer games. The problems were many fold. One of the big issues was how toxic public games would frequently get because some took the game a little too seriously. Other issues included bots/hacks.