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    Quote Originally Posted by Thas View Post
    Found this on Diablofans.com, has some more info on it aswell. It made me cry even more:



    But here's the big bomb:
    great.. diablo now became big business instead of a fun game where you hunt loot yourself or with a group.
    it probably will still be fun but i predict the replay vallue of this game just dropped like a sack of shit with this move.

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    stupid shit man.

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    With the amount of gear sales that went on with Diablo 2, no one should be surprised that Blizzard did this. At least now they can control who gets what money.

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    lol on the other side, im a genius if it comes to making money trough auction houses in games so maybe ill get rich in real life now :P

    here's a vid if u dont like reading all the stuff up

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    so every player will have his own CS. Dont like this fact...sure its good that
    you can earn money too but this shouldnt be like that. Its a game and not
    a software to earn money...what the fuc k happened to Blizz
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    well, Blizzard literally added a potential job for the hardcore gamers and lazy people alike....

    if what i see is true, then a person can make hundreds of dollars in a day depending on his/her luck and market-play.

    shame on you blizzard, shame on you.....smh.

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    "People see rock and roll and youth culture and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture..."

    Slightly out of context, but this reminded me of that.

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    EuroGamer also reports This
    Pardo further confirmed that the game will only be playable online. This, he said, was due to the deep integration of Battle.net online features and the desire for all player characters to be persistent and able to move seamlessly between solo and co-op play, as well as to prevent cheating and improve security
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-01-diablo-iii-has-real-money-auction-house

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    It's not really a bad idea, you could still buy items for Diablo 2, it was just that you had to do it illegally and potentially be scammed. I have no desire to pay money for in-game items, but I know that others do, and they would have done so with, or without, the real money feature. I do think that more people will be using it since it is legitimized, and I don't like the idea of being able to pay-to-win at all, but I think it is the lesser of two evils compared to the constant annoyance of spambots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pok View Post
    It's not really a bad idea, you could still buy items for Diablo 2, it was just that you had to do it illegally and potentially be scammed. I have no desire to pay money for in-game items, but I know that others do, and they would have done so with, or without, the real money feature. I do think that more people will be using it since it is legitimized, and I don't like the idea of being able to pay-to-win at all, but I think it is the lesser of two evils compared to the constant annoyance of spambots.
    Agreed. And also with the auction house, there is demand/supply, so if a lot of people farm items trying to make cash the price will lower anyway.

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    It's actually great, there's like ZERO economy left in D2 right now and it's been like that for years because everyone used forum gold (FG) on d2jsp anyways and I hated it because I spent more time sitting on their site looking for people to buy my crap so I could buy the crap that I needed than actually playing the game. Also a large majority of people who used that site purchased FG to buy their gears so D2 has been buy 2 win for a looooong time.

    I just hope with D3 blizzard does a better job of keeping it bot free.

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    Only thing I don't feel comfortable with is that you can buy items with real money? I sure hope they won't be some overpowered things. [Randomized stats/enchantments is fine with me]

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    Quote Originally Posted by silent420 View Post
    But now that this is coming, i'm pretty sure most of that is gone. No reason for me to just give all my stuff out in D3 anymore when i quit and I'm pretty sure alot of others would feel the same when you can make a quick buck by just selling all your items for money. Don't know if it want to buy the game anymore.
    No. Not really.

    With this, run-of-the-mill items will probably be 10 cent. Dirt cheap, that's the word. Since all the gold/item sellers will be flooding the market, anything short of top tier will be worthless. As thus, no one will be willing to actually sell top tier gear for in-game gold, effectively making gold useless all over again. Blizzard will take a (probably substantial) cut of the sales, fueling the existence of 3rd party sites regardless.

    Blizzard, the stupid things you do in pursue of money...

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    Quote Originally Posted by kbe2k6 View Post
    Why can't people understand this, there's been item selling sites in D2 since it went live on bnet and there would be item selling sites in D3 as well if Blizzard didn't do this. Hell if you log on D2 right now and enter chat or enter a public game you'll be bombarded with spam bots selling shit.

    If Chinese gold farmers want to get into the item selling business through the game, who cares at least now they're doing it legit and through Blizzard rather than on their own making much more money on the side.

    As for D2jsp it probably factors into why Blizzard did this, FG has ran the economy in D2 since 1.10 and Blizzard hasn't been able to shut it down, the owner while not selling items directly is still making a killing of FG sales.
    You be first whine about rare armor And weapon sale at common price because keep spam same dungeon

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    So apparently there is another article out there saying how this isn't just a way to "get rich quick" as if you start making too much money off of it you're subject to taxes in real life, be it IRS or whatever. So it's not like this is something where you can just go, "Well I'll just farm a bit for uber items and sell them all and make $2k!" because then it will literally become your JOB to farm uber items and continue to sell them.

    I don't have the link of the article with me, sadly. It shouldn't take too much searching to dig up, though. Probably some legal stuff about when you start earning X amount of money you're considered working class or a business or somesuch.

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    Without some form of "Bind on Equip" or "Bind on Pickup" system, items will steadily flood the marketplace in growing numbers, as they are recycled.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they added a feature like this to at least slow down the decline in prices for items.

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    There won't be any chinese gold farmers because they will be restricted to their own aunction house based on their currency.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sinnful View Post
    If any of you actually played D2 you would realize that this is just Blizzard trying to control the gear sales that went on. Gear sales on ebay and other websites was and still is very popular, but then again I think most people just need an excuse not to buy a game when they already did not want it.

    meh children.
    exactly, no one forced them to buy game they didn't like.

    yesterday bashiok confirmed there is no change regarding their policy on RMAH, people just need to accept it, whining like a 5 yo brings nothing.

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