NameIsRobertPaulson said:Diablo has always been about you and your party finding great gear, either to bargain with or use. The way D3 has been configured, you will NEVER find the top pieces of gear in the game. They will be RMAH exclusive.Loop Stricken said:The entire game is about getting better gear. That's Diablo in a nutshell. If you don't want to buy it, stack magic find and farm for whatever counts as legendaries.Dexter111 said:They're entire game system is built around getting people to use the RMAH for equipment, they removed all the stats and skills so there won't be any "imba builds" they can't control and the only way your character can get "better" in the game is through better equipment.Loop Stricken said:And whom exactly are you affecting by that? You're making your own game easier and... that's it.
Seeing as the hardest difficulty is with monsters starting above the max. character level that seems to be the most likely way to "progress" in the end-game.
And as far as PvP goes, so what? If the person beating you bought their gear, then so be it. It hasn't been generated out of the aether by real money; it's dropped for someone actually playing the game. If the guy currently showing you what your bowels look like from the inside wasn't using that weapon, maybe it'd be the guy who originally found it. Such a massive difference.
I find that the only people who really complain about entirely optional features are the ones who will crack under the pressure of being perceived as being worse than those who use it. Big effin' deal.
In Diablo 2, out of about 170 legendary pieces of equipment, and about 90 rune words, only a handful of them are useful in the hardest difficulty. I can name all of them off the top of my head. Everything else is so much trash.
My friends and I spent about 300 hours in Hell difficulty farming for items. Of that list, we found 2 items and 1 rune. THAT'S IT. And now the drops are being manipulated to drive up the value of the most important items because it's an easy way to sucker people like you into paying MONEY.
And as far as internet goes, my internet dies every hour or so, and I need to reset the router. Makes playing a game like D3 (which you usually play for hours straight) REALLY REALLY HARD.
Fairly sure if its not dropped in game it wont be appearing on the RMAH as thats the domain of the players only, blizzard is selling nafe all on it just creaming a heafty fee on it.