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Ah, you're one of those people who know better than the Lead Designer I quoted earlier at BlizzCon. Thanks for letting me know.Odlus said:
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I've changed my mind. What's really wrong is those people who see one sentence, which isn't my own, and then come to their own completely misguided conclusions. Generally those who can't be bothered to read forward.Hammeroj said:
Damn, I've been trying to do that for years. Luckily I only played in the beginning areas.Draech said:
I... what? There was tons of stuff that was supposed to be for parties of high level characters in D2, it just ended up being soloable due to glitch items and paladins being fucktartedly powerful.CriticKitten said:Hm, gotta say I oppose this idea. Not only does "Inferno" lack that nice ring to it that "Hell" did (implying that playing in this mode would be Hell....for you), but it's also more proof that the game has "abandoned its roots" in a sense. This sounds like a desperate cry from Blizzard developers, saying: "Please just let us make an MMO! How many MMO features do we have to add before you'll get it?!?!"
]The game's hardest mode will sport monsters that are higher-leveled than you with unique features to make them difficult, obligating you to run with other expert players in a co-op fashion, and very rare loot that will require multiple runs to get it to drop.
Sound familiar yet? It should, it's pretty much Endgame Content 101 for MMOs.
It's a shame that the game has drifted so far from its roots that it's getting hard to remember that D3 was originally announced as a primarily single-player game that would just have more PvP support than before. Too bad the developers seem to have forgotten that promise a long time ago. It makes me sadface, because I no longer have any reason to buy this game if it's just going to be an MMO....I have other, far more anticipated titles in that category.
It seems to me that they are trying real hard to throw balance out the window. -_-Inkidu said:
All that quote proves is that you're not very good at reading. He didn't say Diablo 3 was a PvP game, he said it was going to support PvP better than the previous versions which it will. That doesn't make it a PvP game like you originally claimed and it doesn't change that they've never had any plans on it being "balanced."The_root_of_all_evil said:
I would disagree, you should get better rewards for doing harder work. But these rewards should be soulbound, and prevented from entering the auction economy(which will never happen)The_root_of_all_evil said:
To me this translates to we know that Diablo III isn't an MMO but we want to milk it's auction house for as long as possible so we added a super crazy hard mode.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/events/diablo3-announcement/index.html#auction:auction-faqCallate said:
They only get a flat amount off of each auction not a percentage, Blizzard gets the same amount off of auctions whether the item sells for $1 or $100. If they really wanted to milk their playerbase dry through the AH, rare drops (meaning they'll show up on the AH less often) wouldn't be a very good way.
Then quote the part saying they're going to charge a percentage off the winning bid, because the word percentage doesn't even appear in the FAQ. They specifically said they're going to charge a flat amount for posting auctions and they'll charge another flat amount when it sells. You know, exactly what I quoted:Hammeroj said:
And your point about "economics" has nothing to do with the point I was making. If Blizzard wanted to milk their playerbase dry with this system, they would need to do it with items that players need a ton of, so much that they would want to buy a lot of them from players which would let Blizzard dip into that flat fee more often. Rare, expensive items that won't drop often (and thus won't appear on the AH as often) aren't a good way to make money off of their AH when they're only charging a flat fee.
