You do make me think about the story though. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm also torn.
You know there will be a SC2-esque cliffhanger. They said there are already plans for an expansion.
You do make me think about the story though. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm also torn.
I'm not a huge Diablo 2 fan, but the D3 beta was pretty decent, minus Error 37 or whatever it was.
This real money auction house is going to fuck peoples lives up more than any game before it. People will drop out of college, quit jobs and neglect friendships all in a chase to farm rare drops to sell. And the future addition of PVP (as far as I know?) will only make this worse.
Blizzard is going to make another fortune.
I'm not a huge Diablo 2 fan, but the D3 beta was pretty decent, minus Error 37 or whatever it was.
This real money auction house is going to fuck peoples lives up more than any game before it. People will drop out of college, quit jobs and neglect friendships all in a chase to farm rare drops to sell. And the future addition of PVP (as far as I know?) will only make this worse.
Blizzard is going to make another fortune.
I'm not a huge Diablo 2 fan, but the D3 beta was pretty decent, minus Error 37 or whatever it was.
This real money auction house is going to fuck peoples lives up more than any game before it. People will drop out of college, quit jobs and neglect friendships all in a chase to farm rare drops to sell. And the future addition of PVP (as far as I know?) will only make this worse.
Blizzard is going to make another fortune.
You realise that this is not some big new never-seen-before development, right? People were selling items and accounts for real money in D2 as well. Your post is a hugeeeee over exaggeration.
You realise that this is not some big new never-seen-before development, right? People were selling items and accounts for real money in D2 as well. Your post is a hugeeeee over exaggeration.
I think it will definitely have an impact. The idea that "oh, everyone was doing this anyway therefore it has 0 impact" is incorrect. Legalization will definitely affect how people work with the system.
However, I think it might have a net positive impact; we will see ourselves of course. Trading was by far the most fun I had in D2, and I'm really excited to see what happens.
I'm well aware of D2JSP and other similar sites. This is slightly more accessible, and done on the massive Blizzard scale.
I do agree that the $250 cap is a good idea.
Flair is a reddit feature, where in a given subreddit you can put a piece of "flair" next to your posts (think tag + avatar from GAF). r/diablo has predefined flair for each of the classes, that you can pick from.
Presumably people are choosing their flair based on their favorite class and they are making a graph of that.
Yes. Less hackings, less viruses, less stolen credit cards. A huge amount of the CS problems in WoW are either self-inflicted (people going to super shady websites and not admitting it) or incentivized by the virgin market for virtual items. Even without malicious programs, there's the simple matter of people getting scammed and duped trying to do illicit trades (which happened all the time in D2, including to friends of mine falling for simple social engineering phishing).What do you think would be the net positive impact? Less people getting gipped from shady dealings and an actual market place with true competition and supply/demand factors?
EDIT: That's what I would think at least.
When D2 launched, people freely sold items on ebay, even well after LoD had launched. It was actually really easy, if definitely not as streamlined and accessible as the current system. A friend of mine made a good $500 just selling a handful of uniques in high school, and I sold 2 decent items for $35 ish each.
80% unlock on reveal site.
Dev diary 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J-zZRhgnnRM
So there will be no items in the auction house less than $1. What is the lowest possible profit people are willing to make? Sell an item for $2, and collect...what... 85 cents after the 15% fee and the $1 fee? Or is the 15% taken before the $1 fee for even less profit?
The RMAH won't have any items less than some full games on the App Store
Found this about Paypal's ebay fees:
"PayPal fees mainly apply to sellers, who pay a 2.9% transaction fee on the total sale amount plus a $0.30 fee per transaction"
Sooo.....we're being hammered for an additional 12.1%
Unless you want to cash out a commodity, in which case you're getting dinged for 27.1% over what you'd pay in fees at Ebay.
What does 80% unlock mean?
I expect the RMAH will be rapidly dominated by bots. $0.10 an item is a ton of money when you're living in rural Russia or China and selling a few hundred items a day. I just hope Blizzard has somehow improved their bot detection - they were completely incapable of stopping them in D2. I also hope they are pro-active. It would be possible for Blizzard to try to angle the bots and only shut down their accounts, when busted, once they try to cash out. So Blizzard gets to pocket 100% of their profits, but the economy and thrill of the hunt gets screwed up in the mean time as top tier items start going for $1.25.
I'm also concerned about what bots will do to the gold auction house. If it ends up being the case that you can buy millions of gold for $1.50 or whatever on the RMAH then that inflation is going to leak into the gold auction house and players who are not willing to spend real money buying game gold/items will have a very difficult time participating in even the gold auction house. Although I suppose there will be an equilibrium established anyhow. If you find a rare item and inflation is 181245829174% then you'll still be able to sell that item for an obscene amount of gold. The only thing that will change is that actual gold you pick up during the game will have close to 0 value.
I'm really curious to see how this all works out. Is the site hosted RMAH unprecedented?
I'm really curious to see how this all works out. Is the site hosted RMAH unprecedented?
They said you'll be able to do all 5 again eventually (if you missed them the first time).Damn i missed the first 4 class sigil unlocks
Damn i missed the first 4 class sigil unlocks
Is anyone else concerned that Diablo 3 and Mists of Pandora aren't on the list of Blizzard titles you can purchase? As far as I know you've been able to load money into Blizz Bucks for awhile so I can't see why you couldn't use it to purchase Diablo 3.
The only interest I would have in accumulating money would be to save up for the Diablo expansion so I'm hoping they don't put some BS lag between release and when it is available for purchase with Blizz Bucks. If that's the case I'm probably better off just selling on the gold AH until I can dump a whole bunch on the RMAH for a single PayPal payout.
They've thought ahead of you: The additional 15% commodities fee (assuming they count gold as a commodity) is going to gouge anyone that tries that. They win either way.
I expect the RMAH will be rapidly dominated by bots. $0.10 an item is a ton of money when you're living in rural Russia or China and selling a few hundred items a day. I just hope Blizzard has somehow improved their bot detection - they were completely incapable of stopping them in D2. I also hope they are pro-active. It would be possible for Blizzard to try to angle the bots and only shut down their accounts, when busted, once they try to cash out. So Blizzard gets to pocket 100% of their profits, but the economy and thrill of the hunt gets screwed up in the mean time as top tier items start going for $1.25.
I'm also concerned about what bots will do to the gold auction house. If it ends up being the case that you can buy millions of gold for $1.50 or whatever on the RMAH then that inflation is going to leak into the gold auction house and players who are not willing to spend real money buying game gold/items will have a very difficult time participating in even the gold auction house. Although I suppose there will be an equilibrium established anyhow. If you find a rare item and inflation is 181245829174% then you'll still be able to sell that item for an obscene amount of gold. The only thing that will change is that actual gold you pick up during the game will have close to 0 value.
I'm really curious to see how this all works out. Is the site hosted RMAH unprecedented?
There is no "gold based economy". Both economies are linked.
They said you'll be able to do all 5 again eventually (if you missed them the first time).
They'll be available again before launch.
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They are, but if I get rares and I only sell them on the RMAH, I've opted out of the gold economy. No matter how much gold someone has, they can't have my item. If gold inflates to the point where it's worthless (like it did in D2), people won't use the gold auction house.
They sell the gold and buy your item, they'll take a hit in efficiency but it's super easy to do.
Gold is freely tradeable between the two economies.
So I went to the main Diablo 3 site to look at the new info posted about the RMAH when this screen showed up. It's for the Darkness Falls, Heroes Rise site. At the bottom of the page, it shows each classes reveal date as well as the final release date, but there is space for one more at the bottom of the page.
Did they say that they had more to reveal? Anyone know what this is supposed to be for?
Really, really not a fan of having to use a contract cell phone to be able transfer RMAH money to paypal.
Pre-paid won't work, neither will googlevoice (what I use) for their SMS mobile alert thing.
There is no "gold based economy". Both economies are linked.
Really, really not a fan of having to use a contract cell phone to be able transfer RMAH money to paypal.
Pre-paid won't work, neither will googlevoice (what I use) for their SMS mobile alert thing.
Wait, what? How do they know what is or isn't a contract phone number? Why do carriers even release that kind of information?
Well, although I don't know exactly how blizzard or whomever knows that you are using a pre-paid phone or a googlevoice account for your text messages. I do know that it is easily done, and automatic.Wait, what? How do they know what is or isn't a contract phone number? Why do carriers even release that kind of information?
I have a question.
If I'm playing on Hardcore mode, and I'm using my Tyrael wings from the CE, and I die, do I lose my Tyrael wings?
You do make me think about the story though. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm also torn.
Take Skyrim for example. I could not have sunk 250hours into that game if I weren't playing solo, as I like to explore and read and experience the story. Having 3 other people along for the ride will be bags of fun, but will be a hassle to slow down and enjoy the story.
But then again, it depends on how Blizzard designed it. There may be a lot more 'on the run' story (like the lore) and ingame cutscenes like (beta spoiler)) so it may be a moot point.Leoric's ghostly death