Quote (bluewhale2 @ Mar 24 2023 04:16pm)
Trust me when I say I wish an ARPG could be fully open for trading. It's not possible anymore without ruining the game.
Look at D2R, I can spend $20 and get an entire fully decked out character. Many I know who want to play d2r can't bring themselves to because its just p2w, completely.
Open trading makes bots profitable, makes real money transactions possible too. D2 was one of my favorite games of all time, but that was because when it was released the internet sucked and information about about how pay to win the game was wasn't obvious to the players. That, and I was young and ignorant.
If D4 is fully open economy, everyone will complain about pay to win, and it will lose 90% of the player base so quickly.
Have you seen a banwave in the last year on D2R? you why not, Blizzard is not developing the game anymore. With D4 it will be a marketing machine "allowing" bots. Have you seen the price of a D4 license? right.. so an efficient botter has 4+? bots that means it invested 280$, how fun is it when they are banned and it need to get 4 new licenses...
Besides that, the choice is yours.. do you buy stuff and stand in town doing nothing or do you want to enjoy the game?
I wish you all the fun and luck buying your char, normal people who spend $ on the game will play the game instead.