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darkknight109 posted...

J_Dawg983 posted...

I think d3 killed any nostalgia I had for the diablo series, its a shame how badly overboard they went with preventing trading because people got mad about the rmah. Which is especially stupid because there were tons of people who bought and sold items for cash on d2 and once blizz tries to get a cut of the action, everyone bitches.

I don't know that too many people were complaining about Blizzard taking a slice of the pie; the issue was that they completely designed the game around the RMAH to a ridiculous extent. It affected everything from loot drop rates to matchmaking, where the game would deliberately try to pair you with someone who had an awesome piece of gear that you could use in the hopes that you would run along to the auction house and buy one.

Given that there's been a black market for digital items in online games for yonks' years, I have no problem with Blizzard legitimizing it and bringing it in house and also taking a share of the profits - but that shouldn't come at the expense of game design, and it clearly did with D3. This is exactly why lootboxes are so shitty and why everyone hates them.

I always felt that was a bit overblown. I had a character from each class and if I found a cool piece of loot that I couldn't use I would just put it in my shared inventory and use it with another character. I never touched the auction house once (RM or In Game Currency) and still managed to get through Inferno difficulty with all 5 character classes before they changed the drop rates and nerfed the difficulty level.
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