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Originally Posted by Doors
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I dunno how anyone can think this is a good idea. Botters are going to run this game into the fucking ground in months. Like literally as I am typing this there is an army of sweatshop workers making .10 cents an hour in China coordinating efforts to mass bot this game and completely flood the AH with their shit.
Think Blizzard is going to do anything about it? Fuck no, botters are going to mass sell thousands of items a day which means more cash for Activision. They aren't going to make an effort to stop botting in D3 for two reasons:
1. Botters will make them tons of cash not only buying the game but selling items.
2. They don't want to pay for a division devoted to stopping botters/hackers.
If you're sitting there thinking to yourself right now "Damn son I'm going to make a living off Diablo3 RMAH lol!!!1one" wake up. You know who's going to make money off this game? Azn farmers, botters, and a select few people that have 18 hours a day they can devote to playing D3 like Athene. The normal average everyday player who goes out to buy D3 to play it for fun isn't going to make peanuts.
The other 95% of the playerbase is going to be shit out of luck trying to compete with the farmers and botters. It's going to cost money to list an item, it's going to cost money to buy an item, and it's going to cost money to sell your item as Blizzard takes a percentage cut out of the total that an item is sold for. After awhile the casual player is going to get sick and tired of listing items losing money in the process for listing fees that don't sell as the botters constantly flood the market and shit all over the economy. Prices will change drastically on a daily basis. Realistically the only winner in this is going to be Activision-Blizzard as they rake in the millions and the sweat shops in China running 600 bots 24/7 to farm items. I wouldn't be surprised to see this games economy go to complete shit in ~2 months tops.
Playing the game on anything other than Hardcore mode is going to be fucking awful because if you host a public game dickheads are going to snag every single item and claim "RMAH dawg." Honestly I don't even know what the point of Diablo 3 is going to be since they're putting this feature in. The game is based on two concepts - killing shit and getting loot, but if you can just buy your items for real money and win instantly what is the point of even playing it.
It's actually beyond me how anyone can think this is a good idea. This is fucking garbage, and since every other gaming company out there emulates Blizzard on everything expect to see this bullshit in future games. I couldn't be happier I ditched WoW like 2 years ago because that games offically gone down the toilet as well with the main concept of it being based on micro transactions instead of actual gameplay, but yeah this feature is going in WoW eventually as well. Theres no way in hell Bobby Kotik is capable of controlling his greed at this point, he's already completely fucked up that games PVP servers with faction switch for cash. D3 will suck if RMAH goes in trust me. I could go off about this for probably another 10 pages I haven't even touched on the how shit this is going to make the playerbase as you come across people that have daddy's credit card linked to their account. The flaming, the shit talking from these kids with mommy and daddy's credit card info, the hatred for people who use RMAH to gear up, the contempt people will have that don't use RMAH, I could go on man for fucking hours about how stupid this is.
Not to mention Blizzard completely scrapped their project for some kind of PVP system in D3. Save the stupid ass PVE vs. PVP arguments because my point is they announced they were ditching PVP in D3 the same day they announce RMAH.
Wanna know why? Because instead of laboring through balancing something that would have been a bad ass end game activity like a non-rated arena system for end game D3, they decided "Hey fuck it, if we put RMAH in and people can just buy their success it's going to make any type of competitive PVP system obsolete. So lets just milk the cash cow at the expense of a better game experience because Activision calls all the shots now, and the final word is cash money ******."
Sorry for reposting a similar thread didn't even notice this one was up, I'll pm guineapig or something and get mine deleted.
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1) Loot is only seen on a per person basis ~ Individualized loot, no more fast mouse clickers.
2) Unless they've got something magical planned, you're right, bots are going to run this shit.
3) It'll still be fun, but I'll never play it outside of a group of friends. Playing online with people in bought gear fucking disgusts me.