Radiant star emerald is now below 1E price. lol
I think the reason is because we are still doing the Diablo 3 beta test... maybe once it hits actual retail (1.10??? who knows) Blizzard will start actually giving a damn about the game economy, like ladder resets, banning botters (we've been running 24/7 since December LOL....) more gold sinks, banning China/Moldovian IP's in US/EU servers etc. It will be glory days later but now is the calm before the storm. Profits in the gutter and its only going to get worse before it gets better, IF it ever gets better.i still cant believe how shortsighted the devs were regarding the economy. with no proper goldsinks it was just a matter of time until this game became play2win. And creating more goldsinks aint that hard. Gie us completly insane gems that make items permantly boa give us some sort of individualisation that costs a shitload. Implement a system that spots bigtime blackmarket sellers and ban their asses 24/7 (which is not that hard to do) and you have a rather stable economy...
I think the reason is because we are still doing the Diablo 3 beta test... maybe once it hits actual retail (1.10??? who knows) Blizzard will start actually giving a damn about the game economy, like ladder resets, banning botters (we've been running 24/7 since December LOL....) more gold sinks, banning China/Moldovian IP's in US/EU servers etc. It will be glory days later but now is the calm before the storm. Profits in the gutter and its only going to get worse before it gets better, IF it ever gets better.
I TRUST Blizzard. They fucking want money more than WE do. Giving all that they have in store for D3 to the public in one shot will quench the gamers. Slowly adding/changing content will make the game interesting again. Making ppl bitch and cry about something only makes them drool when something good gets added(See 1.0.4). I think D3 was never meant to be perfect from the beginning. Nothing ever was. Blizzard is far from stupid/lazy. They just want the ppl to get emotional(sad, angry) about something so they can make them give more into it in the future. All the ppl will come back to play D3 just like d2 sometime(including myself).
Although they are really slow. Well, a freaking huge company has a timeline of progress I guess. And they know how to make real money. (Not like us
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1. Diablo is about farming for lootbro ..not sure what planet you live on . but blizzard is just as clueless now as they were at the release .
1.D3 = farm act3 for loot. (which sucks for most players because there is no progression system and the loot sucks - most of the time). this would've worked up to some extent if there were more ways to get that gear and generally a lot more stuff to do (then just farm act x forever)
2.who likes repeating the story line 4 times to lvl ? lol there should have been 1 normal (or whatever u call it ) until 60 . and afterwards inferno. imagine peps who want to have more chars . + the paragon which is also useless and only applies to 1 char
3. wilson said ah ruined the game because now the gold is very cheap and peps can easily get end-game gearand be done with it
he wouldn't be saying it if the gold price was high (which would mean a lot more profits for blizzard) . but the gold price is simply a result of a bad game not because of the ah
4. doesn't matter how good (or bad in D3's case ) a game is . you still need occasional content adding patches which every mmo/arpg company does to keep their player base . D3 didnt have additional meaningful content since octomber (that's 7 months ago ) + working extremely slow (it is possible the number of devs working on d3 is significantly lower now judging by the timeline) + many others like all the insignificant fixes they do and etc => so i don't know what is the foundation for your trust
not sure about u guys but seems pretty dead to me 1b/30e
1,000 million is just 1 billion.