Amazing how many retards think they will turn Diablo 3...

[AlaCarcuss]

It's going to be region based, so only Asians will have to worry about Chinese gold farmers.

Having said that, the whole thing stinks and as someone mentioned, I doubt it's even legal in some territories.

 

[Menckenstein]

Samwise Gamgee is a Guitar Hero

 

[Kraszu]

It's going to be region based, so only Asians will have to worry about Chinese gold farmers.

If it is like with SC2, then your region depends on the copy that you had brought, not on where you live.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

It's going to be region based, so only Asians will have to worry about Chinese gold farmers.

Having said that, the whole thing stinks and as someone mentioned, I doubt it's even legal in some territories.

If its like the current battle net setup (which I assume it is), all you have to do is have a NA/EU key to access the respective regions.

Worst case, instead of botters in China we get botters in Mexico and Poland fueling the drug and potato trade respectively. It may even end up as a decent way to launder money too.

 

[Menckenstein]

It's going to be region based, so only Asians will have to worry about Chinese gold farmers.

Having said that, the whole thing stinks and as someone mentioned, I doubt it's even legal in some territories.

If its like the current battle net setup (which I assume it is), all you have to do is have a NA/EU key to access the respective regions.

Worst case, instead of botters in China we get botters in Mexico and Poland fueling the drug and potato trade respectively. It may even end up as a decent way to launder money too.

Better claim the character name SOJ_4_DRUGS as soon as I can.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I think you guys are underestimating how much these items are going to sell for. Consider the Zod rune.

Here's what one guy has to say about the rarity:

I developed my own Diablo 2 bot, and I ran THOUSANDS of them 24/7 abusing exploits to bypass realmdown and the IP connection limits. It would still take me weeks to find a zod rune. Try finding a zod rune legitimately through any other means, I dare you .

So, how much do you think an item that requires 30 man years of farming to get is going to sell for? Probably thousands of dollars. Hell, look at the amount of real life money gold sells for in WoW, and then consider auction house prices for new items when a patch rolls in. And those things usually have drop rates of like 1%. Easily farmed. But even they go for 50-80 dollars worth of gold.

 

[pocahaunted]

lol at people thinking that region locks can't be ignored. They don't even bother blocking IPs.

So, how much do you think an item that requires 30 man years of farming to get is going to sell for? Probably thousands of dollars. Hell, look at the amount of real life money gold sells for in WoW, and then consider auction house prices for new items when a patch rolls in. And those things usually have drop rates of like 1%. Easily farmed. But even they go for 50-80 dollars worth of gold.

Only a fucking retard bothers to farm an item that is virtually unobtainable, these were the idiots paying for items with perfect stats. Still, this wasn't as commonplace as some people like to imply, most would just turn to cheating or try to trade with complete noobs that got lucky and didn't know the market price for each item. Adding a legitimate way to facilitate this will just ensure another couple of morons will partake in this, which isn't that relevant.

To be honest, what pisses me off is that, now, these fucking idiots won't get scammed or have their computers infected with crap by visiting shady sites. It only served them right.

 

[J1M]

At the very least you can play Diablo 3 to pay for your WoW subscription and Heart of the Swarm purchase.

 

[Needles]

Let's just hope that item randomization works similarly as in Diablo II.... combine that with typical elitist tendencies among the D2 crowd and you get people paying literally 100times the normal price for an item just because it's "perfect". If you've ever seen some of the crazier threads in trading forums (mostly crafted rings/amuletts and PVP rare items as well as skill charms with health on it), you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Let's just hope that item randomization works similarly as in Diablo II.... combine that with typical elitist tendencies among the D2 crowd and you get people paying literally 100times the normal price for an item just because it's "perfect". If you've ever seen some of the crazier threads in trading forums (mostly crafted rings/amuletts and PVP rare items as well as skill charms with health on it), you know what I'm talking about.

Ohh its worse then that. Even given 2 perfect items of exactly equal stats, it one has a model that is 10x rarer than the other then you can be sure that there is a portion of the player base willing to pay 10x as much for it.

 

[Raapys]

 

[Metro]

I can't see why not , it can be some decent additional income.

You'd make more with a minimum wage job, I'm sure.

Also, lol at the people who think the regional restriction is going to stop gold farmers/bots from proliferating the U.S. servers.

 

[DalekFlay]

This has to be the wet dream of every bank and government in the world. Charge people to get fake money, charge people to spend the fake money, then charge for the fake money to be turned back into real money. And of course, being that they own your account they can choose to take your fake money away whenever they feel like it.

The best part is how they say bots won't be "supported", as if they were supported in D2, and then go on to equate making mods to botting. Well played, Blizard.

Buying this game is the equivalent of giving corporations complete control. And I bet millions do it.

 

[Angthoron]

I gotta admit, I was looking forward to D3 as I was intended to play it with a few friends like we used to play TQ, but since the initial announcement Blizzard has been making a retarded move after another, starting with RealID bullshit, followed up by "Hafta be dis much online to play" and finishing with "lols, real munny 4 ur sowrdz" clusterfuck. D3 is going to well follow my tradition of not removing the Diablo games from inventory.

Also, what's with the B-named devs lately?

 

[Damned Registrations]

The best part is going to be them releasing constant patches praised for 'adding content' by dicking with new item traits, so the market for the latest uber rare items will never dry up.

 

[SuicideBunny]

You'd make more with a minimum wage job, I'm sure.

probably, but what minimum wage job allows you to furiously masturbate to porn on your second monitor while working?

 

[Zarniwoop]

So taking money from retards in pyramid schemes is illegal, but taking money from retards by selling them virtual items for very un-virtual money isn't? Oh the irony...

 

[Jive One]

Whatever happened to just playing the game for the challenge? Using only the items you find or buy rather than playing a stamp-collecting simulator?

Thank god for hardcore mode.

 

[aron searle]

This is a good move by bliz, I am loving seeing all the moral twats going "why not play the game for the challenge", it's a game, get a life and stop telling people how they should enjoy it.



I will buy it based on whether it is a good game or not, so far it looks like a cartoony simplified diablo, meh.

 

[Raapys]

Yeah, that's my problem as well. Couldn't really care less about the rest, but the actual game looks hugely disappointing, just like all of Blizzard's games starting with Wc3. That said, even should it somehow turn out to be a decent game, Jewtick is never getting my cash.

Grim Dawn is definitely on my list though, that's looking awesome despite me not enjoying Titan Quest all that much.