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Legendaries / Set items will be ACCOUNT BOUND in RoS... how will we make money??

AngelsHalo

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Direct quote from BlizzCon panel: "The way that soul binding is going to work in Reaper of Souls is that we're basically reserving it for the best things in the game. Only for the Legendary items, the Set items."

We are doomed...
 
I am usually very positive about such things, but this news got me worried.
 
There's an easy fix for botting to be honest...

If they allowed duping/hacked items, it completely devalues everything, and only ruins the experience for those who do it....

Nobody would bother botting Xbox/Ps3 because if you try to sell anything "good" people will just assume you duped or hacked it and they don't want to bother paying for something you created for free. They'd be more likely to just create/dupe their own stuff rather than pay someone else for it.

With that said, because they want to keep the PC secure, we'll probably find SOMETHING of value, might just end up being gold, and have to sell to third party sites... just like WoW does.
 
Thric3 said:
There's an easy fix for botting to be honest...

If they allowed duping/hacked items, it completely devalues everything, and only ruins the experience for those who do it....

Nobody would bother botting Xbox/Ps3 because if you try to sell anything "good" people will just assume you duped or hacked it and they don't want to bother paying for something you created for free. They'd be more likely to just create/dupe their own stuff rather than pay someone else for it.

With that said, because they want to keep the PC secure, we'll probably find SOMETHING of value, might just end up being gold, and have to sell to third party sites... just like WoW does.
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I don't think you understand what the content of the OP states. None of the beginning of your statement has any relevance, what good would gold do? AH is gone, this is kind of the end for botting, it's more of a SP game now.
 
Yeah i think making money of Diablo 3 is finished with RoS release.. any word from buddy dev team about this?
 
AngelsHalo said:
Direct quote from BlizzCon panel: "The way that soul binding is going to work in Reaper of Souls is that we're basically reserving it for the best things in the game. Only for the Legendary items, the Set items."

We are doomed...
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Wait - what's "soul binding"? Is this only after an item is equipped, or when it's dropped? It wouldn't make sense: If I'm playing with a friend of mind, I'm a Wiz, he's a WitchDoctor, and a super epic WD item drops... I can't give it to him? I don't think that's going to fly very far.
 
rrrix said:
Wait - what's "soul binding"? Is this only after an item is equipped, or when it's dropped? It wouldn't make sense: If I'm playing with a friend of mind, I'm a Wiz, he's a WitchDoctor, and a super epic WD item drops... I can't give it to him? I don't think that's going to fly very far.
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As anything with Blizzard is speculative, I'd assume that they're going to treat the SB like they do in WoW:
When grouped/partied, and that party member is within a given distance, the "picked up" item has a X duration that it can be traded between action partaking parties; after the time duration expires, the item becomes permanently bound to whichever person is in possession.
 
I hope it will be bound only after equipped...
 
dragonxdraco, thanks for the link. Looks like we can only bot rare items is ros. Legendaries\set will be tradable only for limited amount of time between players in current game :(
 
IGG said:
dragonxdraco, thanks for the link. Looks like we can only bot rare items is ros. Legendaries\set will be tradable only for limited amount of time between players in current game :(
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That is if they will not take care of 1h weapons and rings/amulets (which are the only rares that have value right now), and i'm sure they will have that covered with bound items. No one really wants inferior rares, when there are superior legendaries/set items of the same class.
 
rrrix said:
Wait - what's "soul binding"? Is this only after an item is equipped, or when it's dropped? It wouldn't make sense: If I'm playing with a friend of mind, I'm a Wiz, he's a WitchDoctor, and a super epic WD item drops... I can't give it to him? I don't think that's going to fly very far.
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It is highly speculative, of course, but i think that it's gonna be bound to you once it is identified. That will leave the possibility for unidentified trading, if that's the case. :)
 
bind on equip makes more sense than these stupid shit they are thinking about.

what if i do play legit for the first few weeks and im doing some mf runs and find a good weapon for my friend but he's at work on a 12 hour shift?

also ... there is almost no point in playing these types of games once you take away the lotto chances for finding godly items that you sell and improve YOUR WHOLE ACCOUNT ... not just 1 slot on 1 char.

I think they are overlooking a lot of problems and are still just trying to wing it.

If you watch them talk they really have no fking clue what the game should be about. All they are doing is trying appease the mass casuals and sell some copies in the short term. All of the new build changing legendaries are a big bulk load of shit with no synergy behind them. It's just random shit throw on different items and put into a pile. Kinda like the burning axe of asskiss or w/e its called ... WHErE THE GD FIRE DMG MELEE BUILD FOR THE ITEM? lol.

They are now turning Diablo into a game where its self found kill 500,000 mobs for 32,483 (x) material and craft your gear 16,234 times to upgrade your loot and continue on your way. There is no need for trading because its all done via craft/enchanting. There is no need for AH's because everyone has everything they need to play this single player flash game.

They are overlooking, taking for granted, and creating TONS of problems in the direction they are going.

If you want another example ... Hearthstone is a CCG (Collectable Card Game). You pay real currency $USD/EU to buy virtual cards that you cant even trade. Are you fking srs right now?

Heroes of the storm? .... LOL ... only about 2 years late on that shitfest and wont hold a candle in the wind to LoL.

Blizz has lost everything it once was.
 
bizzy1one, it was very interesting to read your opinion as always. I agree, that if you fing good legendary item on solo run, you MUST have a way to give it to your friend. If most leg/set items you get will fit only your current class, it will be pretty boring. In that case players will get oversatisfied with loot in a very short period.

Also, trading is a very important part of the game, it is kinda game inside a game. Ppl respect good gear as they respect time/money investment. If everything will be bound, the only way to get nice char+gear will be to start DB for 24/7 and everybody will understand that fact, that it is botted acc. Current top chars contain best items that drop one in a million and this is a big difference.

UPD: killing the AH might be ok for the game or even can make it better, but killing the whole trading system? I doubt it will improve D3 ROS players' experience.
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Guys nothing is definitive, even that screenshot with the crafting cost says nothing. We dont know how gold will drop in ros, the crafting cost shown in that picture is not set in stone for the final release. All i can agree with is bizzyone's quote: "I think they are overlooking a lot of problems and are still just trying to wing it". They are still in heavy iteration mode, they haven't announced a beta/release date for ros meaning they are still putting down the basics. Worst case scenario is the only things of worth are uber rares "high trifecta/stats rings, gloves, weapons", the new crafting mats needed for the stats re-roll and ofc gold which will be used in tandem with the new crafting mats.

All aside i believe there will be strong profits to be made in the first month or so after ros release. The ladder reset pretty much ensures that, as for after the market will stabilize i think there is serious possibility of 0 profit after everyone gears up and crafts the best of the best items possible.
 
There's always going to be something to sell. Be it money, or gems, or un id's. Maybe something new will turn up and become valuable as a trading commodity. I doubt they're going to do a thorough job eliminating trading possibilities. Why? Else you can just make it offline available. They aren't doing that.

We'll just have to wait and see what's possible and what's not.
 
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