Jay Wilson (former game director for Diablo 3, for those who don't know) recently stated some interesting opinions regarding the D3 auction house.
Jay Wilson stated "It's not good for a game like Diablo. It doesn't feel good to get items for money, it feels good to get items by killing monsters". He also stated that "It's something team talks about every week and wants to fix" but because so many people use the auction house, there is a fear that those players would leave.
It's an interesting idea, especially considering the PS3 version of Diablo will not have an auction house. Do you think it's a case of "too late, too little" for Diablo, or would pulling the plug on the Auction House be beneficial to the game?
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The AH is fine, its the RMAH, but when you put something on teh AH it should re-roll the stats under a new forumla this would mean that the better items are found from killing monsters or directly trading with another player, BUT you can buy gear for your own level that are okay, this would put a better control on the loot from the AH and would probably fix it.
Not sure how RMAH can impede someone's PvE experience. PvP on the other hand...will be ugly.
the problem is... your shouldnt be able to spend money to win a game, Its one thing to use cheats or hacks... but using money is just dirty.... everyone can get hacks or mods, but not everyone can pay more -_-
If there were some kind of leaderboard, and if the difficulty wasn't a piss breeze I could see where you're coming from. But those two things definitely make it a moot point for me.
AH ruined the game for me, not even RMAH, i never used it.
i was having alot of fun, finding constant upgrades. interesting items i could use.
eventually i decided to look at the AH. against my original intentions when going into the game.
i found gear on there that was amazing. perfect gear. hundreds of identical items with perfect stat rolls. for EXTREMELY CHEAP.
i bought them all. decked my character and became extremely fucking bored with the game. i didn't see a gear upgrade for a very very very long period of time. completely ruined the game for me, it should have never been added.
maybe it would of worked if the amount of perfect roll items on the auction house was alot lower but the only way to solve that is to make it almost impossible for a good roll item to drop. which is another problem in itself.
Like I said if the AH would have re-rolled items, but with even the same stat classes on them for lower values, That way, The most amazing gear was on the monsters it would have worked, also set items were non existent, and Legendaries sucked.
AH ruined the game for me, not even RMAH, i never used it.
i was having alot of fun, finding constant upgrades. interesting items i could use. eventually i decided to look at the AH. against my original intentions when going into the game. i found gear on there that was amazing. perfect gear. hundreds of identical items with perfect stat rolls. for EXTREMELY CHEAP. i bought them all. decked my character and became extremely fucking bored with the game. i didn't see a gear upgrade for a very very very long period of time. completely ruined the game for me, it should have never been added.
maybe it would of worked if the amount of perfect roll items on the auction house was alot lower but the only way to solve that is to make it almost impossible for a good roll item to drop. which is another problem in itself.
I had the same problem... First I played a long time on hardcore without problems, but after a while I had to grind a lot for upgrading my weapon to progress further... Later I bought more and more from it with my gold because it was cheap as f*ck.
The problem is that higher leveled chars pick up good items for lower levels and sell them. Since they see more good items for lower levels than the lower levels themselves, they feed them with comparable low gold costs (because high level chars flood the market).
I would put a minimum gold cost on each item depending on the item's value. These gold costs won't go to the seller, instead they are removed from the game. Now you will waste much more money if you keep using the auction house. I think that people would buy less and less items on the auction house because it's a real investment then.
You could compare it to gambling in Diablo 2. You spend a lot of gold for a great upgrade. The difference with the auction house is that you can chose what you want...
Trading directly with players ingame might be a lot cheaper then... and that's the form of trade that was existing in D2 and didn't ruin the game...
The lazy/cheat mode would just cost a lot more money.
Blizzard scaled the game pretty well with the gold amount throughout the game. So the endgame gold income isn't superduper much higher than the lower level gold income. This means that you won't receive a huge interest from your investment in a short time. So, you wouldn't be able to boost yourself through the levels with that.
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Curse PremiumJay Wilson (former game director for Diablo 3, for those who don't know) recently stated some interesting opinions regarding the D3 auction house.
Jay Wilson stated "It's not good for a game like Diablo. It doesn't feel good to get items for money, it feels good to get items by killing monsters". He also stated that "It's something team talks about every week and wants to fix" but because so many people use the auction house, there is a fear that those players would leave.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/28/jay-wilson-wed-turn-off-diablo-iiis-auction-house-if-we-could
It's an interesting idea, especially considering the PS3 version of Diablo will not have an auction house. Do you think it's a case of "too late, too little" for Diablo, or would pulling the plug on the Auction House be beneficial to the game?
@zeldarules28: Go
The AH is fine, its the RMAH, but when you put something on teh AH it should re-roll the stats under a new forumla this would mean that the better items are found from killing monsters or directly trading with another player, BUT you can buy gear for your own level that are okay, this would put a better control on the loot from the AH and would probably fix it.
Not sure how RMAH can impede someone's PvE experience. PvP on the other hand...will be ugly.
@TheZizz: Go
the problem is... your shouldnt be able to spend money to win a game, Its one thing to use cheats or hacks... but using money is just dirty.... everyone can get hacks or mods, but not everyone can pay more -_-
@Taintedwisp: Go
If there were some kind of leaderboard, and if the difficulty wasn't a piss breeze I could see where you're coming from. But those two things definitely make it a moot point for me.
AH ruined the game for me, not even RMAH, i never used it.
i was having alot of fun, finding constant upgrades. interesting items i could use. eventually i decided to look at the AH. against my original intentions when going into the game. i found gear on there that was amazing. perfect gear. hundreds of identical items with perfect stat rolls. for EXTREMELY CHEAP. i bought them all. decked my character and became extremely fucking bored with the game. i didn't see a gear upgrade for a very very very long period of time. completely ruined the game for me, it should have never been added.
maybe it would of worked if the amount of perfect roll items on the auction house was alot lower but the only way to solve that is to make it almost impossible for a good roll item to drop. which is another problem in itself.
@maverck: Go
Like I said if the AH would have re-rolled items, but with even the same stat classes on them for lower values, That way, The most amazing gear was on the monsters it would have worked, also set items were non existent, and Legendaries sucked.
I had the same problem... First I played a long time on hardcore without problems, but after a while I had to grind a lot for upgrading my weapon to progress further... Later I bought more and more from it with my gold because it was cheap as f*ck.
The problem is that higher leveled chars pick up good items for lower levels and sell them. Since they see more good items for lower levels than the lower levels themselves, they feed them with comparable low gold costs (because high level chars flood the market).
I would put a minimum gold cost on each item depending on the item's value. These gold costs won't go to the seller, instead they are removed from the game. Now you will waste much more money if you keep using the auction house. I think that people would buy less and less items on the auction house because it's a real investment then.
You could compare it to gambling in Diablo 2. You spend a lot of gold for a great upgrade. The difference with the auction house is that you can chose what you want...
Trading directly with players ingame might be a lot cheaper then... and that's the form of trade that was existing in D2 and didn't ruin the game...
The lazy/cheat mode would just cost a lot more money.
Blizzard scaled the game pretty well with the gold amount throughout the game. So the endgame gold income isn't superduper much higher than the lower level gold income. This means that you won't receive a huge interest from your investment in a short time. So, you wouldn't be able to boost yourself through the levels with that.
@zeldarules28: Go
Too little , Too late.
Pretty sure they are also lying the game pulls in one million logins a day.
lol @ jay Wilson --
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Because of the RMAH Blizzard PROFITS from bots, gold-sellers and hackers.