My thoughts about personal vs shared loot

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@Zax-11538

Players will be scared to create open games because there will be many players who will just join to grab free items. You can argue that players can do it even now, but they have to get close to actualy get the items.

This is not how personal loot works. To get personal loot, the character needs to be in close proximity to the killed monster. If you are NOT in close proximity, a personal loot character gets nothing.

In contrast in D2 currently with FFA, you can get to the monster kill location after the fact and get all uncollected gear. This makes FFA games worse in terms of “free items”.

@Zax-11538

considering you would have to be in same room/map where kill is done , people will be exploting that, joining game to just get free loot and it will be pretty much guaranteed. Lvl 40 naked hardcore character can just use portal and stand in the corner of the room, not risking anything and then just picking up loot, having even chance to get more then players actualy fighting.

Again see the point above. If you are standing in the room in close proximity, your character in hardcore is at risk irrespective of the loot system.

@Zax-11538

then just picking up loot, having even chance to get more then players actualy fighting.

This is potentially worse in FFA. At most they leecher gets a binomial distribution of loot. In FFA, they can get all or a disproportionately high share.

@StormReaver-1628

That only works when the community is separated.

This is not true. See:
Realm vs Game Loot Options - General Discussion - Diablo 3 Forums (blizzard.com)

@StormReaver-1628

community can take the easy route.

Total drops are the same in personal and global loot games. In 8 player personal loot game, each player see only on average one-eighth (12.5% of total drops +/- binomial probability variance). In a FFA game, players see 100% of the drops. Due to player stratification, it will be difficult to gear up in personal loot games. Therefore, a compelling case can be made for personal loot being more difficult and FFA less so.