D4 trading - why it needs to be limited or not at all

[StrikerJolt-1840]

@StuRedman-2654

The traders’ favorite lie. You can’t be self found with abysmal drop rates the traders cry for so they can make profit.

@StrikerJolt-1840

This is why Diablo 2 was unaffected by trading. They didn’t design the game around trading, they designed the game and added in trading as an extra feature.

They didn’t intend for trading to be that big and that much of successful and to think otherwise would give them WAY too much credit.

Again, build a game first then we discuss whether or not to add trading, but if the game itself is designed without trading then trading is added as an extra feature. Then trading itself didn’t effect the game.

As for the drop rate discussion. The reason why Diablo and Classic was as popular and successful is because they didn’t shower you with loot and they didn’t make loot a mandatory thing.

You don’t need full epic gear to do raiding in Classic WoW. You could beat the raid without the perfect gear. The perfect gear only made it easier.

This called “Gear checking” where you do need gear to pass content and I don’t like that.

@StrikerJolt-1840

But again, and I’m gonna really hone in on this point.

To make the assumptions that the Diablo developers while designing knew the exact out come, predicted, designed, on purpose the trading and expected the out come on which happened is insane.

They had no idea that trading in Diablo 2 would be a massive hit. They just put into the game because thought it would be cool.

To act as if the developers mastermind the entire trading community frenzy that was Diablo 2 is sheer fantasy and delusional.