Trade = $2W is causing inflation not drop rates

I’m tired of streamers saying the drop rates are causing inflation. Do me a favor, streamers; just search buy D4 gold.

To paraphrase Yoda. Trade leads to real money; real money leads to botting, and botting leads to hyperinflation. If you need to have trading, do not ruin the game for those who do not want pay2win and a “D4JSP” real money market being the true endgame.

Please follow Last Epoch and create a trade guild and a self-found guild and heavily nerf all drop rates for trade and heavily buff all drop rates for self-found. Their system is a great concept to improve on. Each guild can play together, etc. However, with raids coming there will be gear checks to even group. Without this change, this game will go down the gutter of a pay2win play-wall shortly. You already have Diablo Immortal; we do not need a 3rd party clone.

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I absolutely detest streamers. Annoying lot. Ever since twitch became prominent, games have started to suck…

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You probably won’t need BiS gear or even to be max level to clear the new raid. If Blizzard actually makes it competitive like WoW raids, that’s dumbest decision of the year material right there.

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There is no raid coming, there won’t be gear checks, stop with this nonsense already.

We’re getting a co operative dungeon, that can likely be played solo with mercs and likely only requires 2 players (you and your merc or you and a friend).

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What about elden ring, witcher 3, monster hunter world/rise, Cyberpunk, etc.? Those games definitely don’t suck, and D4 also doesn’t suck. Else you wouldn’t post here in the forum, would you?

Stop watching streamers. Problem solved.

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inflation will always happen in seasonal games.

less players play over season → less good loot found and sold → more unspent gold accumulates for folks who still play → prices constantly grow. botters just adjust their gold prices (it’s cheaper and cheaper over season time).

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RMT won’t stop just because you stop watching the streamers :clown_face:

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Name a “co-operative” competitive blizzard game (or any really) that does not become gear checks. Gear check are unavoidable, you can close your eyes and pretend, but that does not remove reality.

That affects my game play in absolutely no way. Why should I or anyone ever care what others do.

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Yep and as botters lower prices, more players begin to purchase more and more and hyperinflation continues.

I disagree with some of your sentiment - As of right now D4 is essentially a single player or casual multiplayer game for 90% of the players. So the outside market has little impact on the experience.

With that said, yes, it’s be great for Blizzard to iterate off of the LE guild system. It is a great system with some clunkiness that could be smoothed out

Because the game is tuned around RMT champions. Streamers do RMT. Guess whose feedback Blizzard listens to?

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If prices are decreasing then that wouldn’t be inflation in pricing but deflation. You see prices declining at the lower and mid ranges while inflation is occurring on the high-end items is my observation from the short time I’ve been using diablo.trade

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Really? Items drop frequently if you just play the game. Drop rates have increased since release. If anything, they are completely ignoring the economy.

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You say that with a straight face when Pits were just tuned down in difficulty a week ago. Really?

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Same week they announced sorc nerfs, based entirely on the infinite flame shield build that is only possible if you RMT and buy perfectly-rolled gear.

didnt do any kind of rmt, did pretty fine this season. basically got everything done by week 2, now just farming and pushing when im in the mood for it.

People only bring up the rmt discussion because of their item jealousy and their inability to perform well in certain contents.

We arent talking about some esports here guys. calm down. This game is absolutely balanced for casuals by now. In my universe, if anyone wants to break the ToS by doing rmt, they should do that. Its their money they waste for stuff thats not the slightest bit needed.

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Sorc balance around ALL their defensive skill requirements to survive is a different discussion to me as it is a poor setup.

Blizzard has, to some degree, fixed the “triple shout meta” of Barbarians and need to do the same for “unholy defensive trinity” for Sorc.

My main class, Necro, is just Mist, lol

If you can only get those items via RMT, how did the original person get it that sold it?

RMT or not, something was shown to be broken.