http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...eal-Life-Money!
All I can say is wow....
I guess those guys that don't have jobs and play games all day everyday just have another reason to play...
Mom: "Get a job!"
Kid: "I have one! I'm farming gold."![]()
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...eal-Life-Money!
All I can say is wow....
I guess those guys that don't have jobs and play games all day everyday just have another reason to play...
Mom: "Get a job!"
Kid: "I have one! I'm farming gold."![]()
More a case of 'if you can't beat them, join them' or at least, legalise it and try an stop organised criminals from making profit on it.
There was always going to be a black market for this, so I can only applaud Blizzard for taking steps to reduce the impact on other players. Question is, can they secure accounts enough to prevent people hacking and selling off? NCsoft couldn't.
This "unofficially" used to/and maybe still does happen in Diablo 2 anyway if i remember.
I think its a brave step, there is plenty of people out there who are "cash rich/time poor" who will welcome this.
Yep there are loads of sites that sell Diablo II items. 90% of spam on servers is also bots advertising these sites.
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This is going to create a whole new level of loot-horny kids
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Ninja looting mayhem! It was bad enough in WOW but now people getting paid for the loot! I hope the ignore/black list for account is going to be BIG!
As for the concept, this is going to be great, i only wished they put this into WOW years ago, and my holidays from work will now be solely reserved for Diablo 3 Farming.![]()
Interesting aspect is that apparently the vast majority of the loot will be not locked to account/character (compared to Warcraft) so at least once you grow tired of Diablo and leave the game time invested is not just for nothing, you can sell everything legitimately when you leave![]()
Income tax evasion in 5...4...3....
I can't see people making huge amounts of money from this, the market will get flooded quite quickly with some things making them less valuable. I also suspect that blizzard will increase the drop rates on somethings if they start to get expensive to keep control of things.
I like the idea though, makes trading much easier if you don't have to be in the game with someone and as others have said it will stop all these dodgy sites popping up.
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If I pick it up it won't affect me anyway, word is they are not allowing it in HC.
I don't understand, they spent years fighting it in WoW, only to then allow it in Diablo 3.
Surely this will cause a problems with some Asian sweatshops etc and Blizzard being blamed for it
I guess the difference now is that transaction are tracked and traced by blizzard for customer security.
Makes me not want to play it nowWoW started it's downhill decent once gold spammers got everywhere and the economy went to crap thanks to sweatshops and organised crime.
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Item farming happens already in Diablo II so I'm not sure why people see that as such a big problem. Now that it's being (kind of) regulated it means that there will be less dodgy sites ripping people off and less spam bots in games. It's inevitable that items will be sold so why not make it all official?
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Diablo 3 and WoW are completely different beasts, there is a reason why "Bind on Pickup" items exist, it feels like you are earning something when you finally get that PvP weapon or endgame tier gear which would be devalued if you could just buy it for £5 and everyone could get it.
Diablo on the otherhand is intended to be more casual game and the loot is far more random, no soulbound items, no clearly defined endgame.
I'm really happy they've done this. Hopefully it will stop/reduce in-game spam, but it also means if I decide to stop playing I can effectively cash out
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