Quote (flyjum @ Aug 1 2011 09:34am)

This is PAY to WIN game 100% if you can buy something like CURRENCY in a rpg game then what the fuck is the point of playing the game?
Just buy a shit load of gold and thats all you need since you can buy every item you need with it.............

Quote (flyjum @ 1 Aug 2011 11:10)

I think the RMAH (real money auction house) will work fine if..
Its region limited so Asians cant come in and flood the shit out of the market.

Quote (flyjum @ Aug 1 2011 04:34am)

We may have upper limits. We may have minimums. Listing fees are flat so it's not in our best interest to let it get away from us. That said, it's supply and demand, and we want this to be a market run by the players. Every rule we impose could upset that and suddenly it's not players setting market values, but Blizzard deciding how it goes. I still think some limits are likely, though.

I have no doubt that the gold auction house will by-far outweigh the real money auction house in scope and amount of items available. The good thing here is that being able to sell gold for real money will naturally keep the gold auction house economy in-check a bit. Not a lot, but it should be helpful.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=27822642364&sid=3000&pageNo=2


What the fuck

This is PAY to WIN game 100% if you can buy something like CURRENCY in a rpg game then what the fuck is the point of playing the game?
Just buy a shit load of gold and thats all you need since you can buy every item you need with it.............

Quote (Sammy123 @ Aug 1 2011 10:15am)

What do you think d2jsp is? You're paying d2jsp forum gold, which someone PAID REAL MONEY to njaguar to get, in order to buy items. You're paying to win on d2jsp every time you buy or sell an item.

I could understand these arguments being made from people who don't use d2jsp, but coming from someone who uses and enjoys d2jsp this is beyond dumb

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Looks like we'll be paying a monthly (or weekly, daily, even hourly) fee to play this game after all.

I'm assuming gold still drops from monsters as we kill them. And since they are worth real-life money(RLM), we are losing it whenever we are in the game and not killing monsters. While we are killing monsters, our equipments will be damaged, and we have to spend gold (hence RLM) to repair them. When we are purchasing potions, we will be spending gold (also RLM) to buy them. When we are upgrading our Artisans, we are spending gold or items-that-are-valuable-in-terms-of-gold (ala RLM) to do that.

Oh, and here's the kicker: when we are gambling with our Artisans for items with nice stats, we are doing that with gold (yep, that's just Real Life Money) to either lose it or get a nice lucky payout in terms of gold value (or RLM value). Welcome to Las Vegas, citizens of the world!

And if you only choose to use the gold-based AH? Too bad, whether you want to admit it or stick your head in the sand, you are using RLM anyway because, again, gold can be sold for RLM.

Quote (ownyaah @ Aug 1 2011 05:17am)

obvs noob, fg in first place was never bought, it was handed out for posts

Quote (Sammy123 @ Aug 1 2011 10:19am)

Yes, some of it was originally handed out for posts. Do you know how much d2jsp forum gold was made from posts and how much from "donations? Judging from all the "donators", some of whom have spend thousands of dollars on it, I'm willing to bet the ratio isn't in your arguments favor. Even if it was, the fact of the matter is you have to spend real money to get more of the currency now.

Quote (ownyaah @ Aug 1 2011 10:17am)

obvs noob, fg in first place was never bought, it was handed out for posts. from there the fg amount has never rizen , but has fallen due to locked players.
but the thing is irl cash is never ending there is no balance rich kids will sweap the hole list and buy every fucking good item and u poor will always remain poor. this dosnt make the game into a game but more of a job