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Diablo 3 rated in South Korea, Real-Money AH removed to secure the rating in SK
- Thread starter crimsonheadGCN
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What exactly is better? instead of using blizzards trusted money transfer they will use shady goldsellers...
Shhh, if it isn't officially supported by the devs it clearly isn't a huge problem that has plagued the series since Diablo 1. It isn't like it is a big enough business to support massive numbers of spam bots to this very day.
What's better about it? Blizzard is just cutting out the middle man and giving people a guaranteed and safer way of doing something that they're already doing. It sounded weird to me at first as well, but after a while it's like "yeah, that's actually a pretty solid idea", especially with the choices you have to make to use the AH.
It'll be interesting to see if the SK servers are riddled with gold farming and it's all quiet on that front on the others.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Read the article. The classification board in SK will re-evaluate the game if they do decide to add it in later and then the game will be removed from being sold.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Did you read any of the posts prior to yours?
Interfectum
Member
Why read when you can troll?
Amount of people using 3rd party sites vs officially supported RMAH cant even be compared, the problem with RMAH will be bigger and there will be even more bots than there were in D2, also it diminishes importance of Gold Based AH, because better items will more likely be be put via RMAH, than GBAH.
So yeah, game without RMAH will probably be better, at least from items economy side.
Its not optional if You want to trade in Diablo 3.
I was joking about how the AH is the only reason for the DRM.
You realize gambling is like illegal in SK right? (It's also illegal in Japan but we're just talking about South Korea here.)
There's an real money auction and a game money auction. Optional feature.
That's my take on it as well.
Absolutely not.
It doesn't stop spam in EVE. It won't stop it here either.
Haunted
Member
Their arguments didn't convince me!
guilty as charged!
wait what
That's my take on it as well.
Thats not the point of the feature. The point is to allow the community a safe option for RMT. RMT is going to exist if Blizzard likes it not, they're just trying to make it into something that can be designed, implemented and managed on their end for quality control and income for further game support.
Will it expand the audience that participates in RMT? Definitely, because now there won't be people afraid to send credit card info to shady chinese sites. And who cares? Does it really bother anyone when people buy in game currency in FarmVille to speed up crop production?
Same. It'll be interesting to see how it works out, but I don't think it will be any better than the current system.
Comparing it to farmville is a stretch. You don't have PvP, you don't have competitive ladders etc. Diablo isn't a social game.
Interfectum
Member
Why does it matter if people buy their loot vs. get it in game?
It wont be, if better items will be put into only one of those AHs. Just think about it, You have awesome legendary item and have option to put into Gold Based AH or RMAH, where You can get money, what will You choose? Yeah, You can be stubborn and put it into Gold based AH, but You would be in minority, most player [like way over 90% probably] would choose RMAH.
Why does nobody think of the epeens - nobody ever thinks of the epeens...
I did not realize it was illegal. I merely thought they were re-rate it.
It doesn't matter if you play HC like a real boss.
items will cost more gold compared to sk as their supply is reduced by an external currency - nothing else will happen
So a system of ranking PvP in a game where the outcome heavily favors those that farm frequently for rare items is a good thing that we don't want to tarnish?
Cause trading will become exclusively trading for real money ONLY in no time.
Why would I want to trade an item I don't need when I just can put it on an official trade-for-money system and get real money for it ? (even if it is the tiniest amount)
Shady Korean farmers prevented some people from buying gold/items because it was shady, now that it will be official everything changes.
Stupidest thing ever.
Interfectum
Member
Uh that's not how a market works.
If the RMAH is flooded with shit items no one will be buying hardly anything. You'll be wasting your time posting items up there as they will just expire and go back to you.
And people will still want to make in-game gold for Diablo 3 so there will still be a lot of use on the in-game auction house.
because i would buy it for this "tiny" amount I got by selling a bit of gold - then i will repost it for a lot of gold...
rm and gold will balance out exactly - it won't matter for which currency you sell it regarding the rm equivalent of worth you will be getting for it
except gold is 100% useless - but then a gold only ah (like in sk) would be barren as well and koreans would use soj as a currency
StoppedInTracks
Member
So you can exchange in-game gold for RMAH credits? That'd be pretty cool.
Interfectum
Member
The only things that will truly sell on the RMAH will be very, very rare items. Some of you are way, way over-estimating the impact of this thing.
I would rather sell a epic item on the in-game AH for 10,000 gold than sell it on the RMAH for $1 (if it even sells for that much).
I would rather sell a epic item on the in-game AH for 10,000 gold than sell it on the RMAH for $1 (if it even sells for that much).
Interfectum
Member
Haha this too.
You are going to have people buying shit on the RMAH and immediately reposting it on the in-game AH for gold.
You act like in game gold won't have a corresponding real life monetary value. Also don't worry, considering people still buy shit for D2 for >$1, I'm sure that epic item will go for more than that dollar of yours.
How often do people trade items directly anyways? Oh wait, they didn't. They traded SoJs or whatever the current gold replacement was because gold was worthless in D2.
The gold AH fills this role fine.
Guess you missed it. Best Buy printed out a bunch of advertisements for their stores stating that Diablo 3 was dropping Feb. 1st with a countdown clock and everything. Gamestop and a few other online retails also updated their release dates to match Feb. 1st.
Blizzard has since denied it, but who knows what is really going on. There is a thread on it somewhere on GAF. I think Wario64 created it.