i have a theory that they purposefully broke pvp to ruin the market and stop jsp making money from their game
at the expense of the game

You also have to take into account, that hardware is much more powerfull these days. On a Ryzen 5950x with a RTX 3090 you can run eight instances simultaneously. Imagine you have serveral boxes doing this..

As long as there is no proper bot detection in the game mechanics itself I see no stopping of this. Like randomly occuring complex challenges that have to be solved successfully by the player, otherwise you'll be kicked out of the game.

I dont mind 1-2 botters, but when you see people with 10-20 bots, it kills the game quickly as it always has. I mean I would love to run 1 bot, because who really wants to farm meph 1000 times.

yes

no. pvp demand has very very marginal effect on ladder item prices on the first week of ladder. also compared to initial d2r you can dee multiple times high runes sold on jsp.

There is less demand.

More supply.


Ofc prices fall.


If there is more demand and more supply, there is an equaiblrium.


This is very easy to understand.

Without a pvp crowd, which will want to gear up quickly to start leveling, there is essentially no market to sell to.

All you have is pvmers wanting to farm items to sell to pvmers who want to farm items to sell to pvmers who want to farm items to sell to pvmers. So on and so forth.

Ofc prices crashed more quickly than the release, where pvpers still had hope for the game.

This post was edited by Bui6Pays40Percent4Wins on May 5 2022 10:31am

Botting has been around forever. How come game companies cant do anything about it? Is it hard to detect? or they just dont care?

its not hard to detect...

blizzard anti cheating has been always known to be thrash compared to companies like Riot

There is no excitement when players are not playing under the same terms,also knowing this is frustrating and also discouraging.The feeling of rewarding is non existant when in the end you can buy a shako for a ral rune because the supply will overcome the demand.