| C[h]ili Germany. May 24 2012 19:53. Posts 84 | Profile # |
Poll: Are you willing to invest real money in D3 items?No! (81) 82% Maybe! (13) 13% Yes! (5) 5% 99 total votes Your vote: Are you willing to invest real money in D3 items? (Vote): Yes!
(Vote): Maybe!
(Vote): No!
I am sure that the issue has been discussed before, but now we all know the game and the functioning of the auction house, so it seems warranted to have a post-release discussion on the real money auction house.
Basically, what interests me is whether you will be willing to put real money in the game or not.
In Diablo 2, the main incentive for me to play the game was leveling up my character. I found it outright stupid and senseless to put hours and hours of play time into MF or HF rushes when I could simply buy high runes and godly items at Ebay for a fraction of my hourly wage. In Diablo 3, leveling up is very easy, so the only incentive to actually play the game in the long-run is improving your gear (so you can make inferno). By buying items I feel like you destroy the only long-run incentive of the game, while at the same time it feels repetitive and stupid to farm for better gear. So, taken together, I have not yet decided the question (partly because I probably will not go crazy over D3 as I did with D2). |
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 Chriscras Korea (South). May 25 2012 08:06. Posts 2738 | Profile Blog # |
| Will the RMAH actually be implemented, maybe it's actually illegal gambling? |
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| udgnim United States. May 25 2012 08:29. Posts 6450 | Profile Blog # |
On May 25 2012 08:06 Chriscras wrote:
Will the RMAH actually be implemented, maybe it's actually illegal gambling?
how is it illegal gambling? whoever buys an item from RMAH knows what they are getting |
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| Fugue Australia. May 25 2012 11:07. Posts 251 | Profile Blog # |
I dont' think the RMAH will open any-time soon, since they clearly need to sort out the issues with the GAH before that can happen.
I'd be disappointed if they tuned difficulty spikes such that only finding a one in a million item would let you breach a given barrier and keep progressing. I'd rather a stable difficulty curve that required routine farming as you go, and sticking around for a while if you had bad luck.
If they had a stable difficulty curve I admit I'd probably never buy anything. But I suspect if they didn't, I'd quit rather than buy power. |
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| C[h]ili Germany. May 25 2012 17:09. Posts 84 | Profile # | |
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| Vod.kaholic United States. May 25 2012 17:15. Posts 701 | Profile Blog # |
| I'm about 90% sure I won't be spending any money on it for the forseeable future. The 10% I'm not sure about revolves around whether the GAH becomes useless for getting good gear, and even then I might just cut back on playing instead of paying on the RMAH. |
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| Jisall United States. May 25 2012 17:19. Posts 1538 | Profile Blog # |
I think that is the reason blizzard is trying to make it available ingame to prevent hacking from outside places, they can monitor it better.
I spent omney on d2 cuz i was lazy. This time i want to sell the shit lol |
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| Vaelone Finland. May 25 2012 17:19. Posts 1844 | Profile # |
Won't be spending any of my money on it, if I do somehow manage to sell something there which I doubt, I may as well spend that there/Blizzstore then.
Don't care about spending my money there or making money from there. |
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| m00nchile Slovenia. May 25 2012 17:21. Posts 234 | Profile # |
| I won't buy items, but I may try and sell a few, if I find something really good and rare. IMHO the rmah exists for people who want to mainly pvp without putting in the time farm up the best items. Thay being said, I don't expect to make money off the game, if I get enough to buy the xpac when it rolls around I'll be more than happy. |
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| Tobberoth Sweden. May 25 2012 17:25. Posts 4539 | Profile # |
| I'll probably never even enter it. The profits you can make there will be miniscule and there's no way I'll pay real money for a bunch of bits in a Blizzard database somewhere. |
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| dsousa United States. May 25 2012 17:28. Posts 962 | Profile # |
I may buy something if I see an opportunity to sell it for more later.
With the gold auction house, I bought things, used them and then sold them most times for a profit.
I won't spend $$ just to make my toon better though. |
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| Fuzzyhead Germany. May 25 2012 17:31. Posts 46 | Profile # |
depends on the price, I am totally in the dark about that
how much real world money will buy you an item with a value of 1m?
10 $ / Euro, more or less? |
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| Reasonable Ukraine. May 25 2012 17:33. Posts 1331 | Profile # |
On May 25 2012 17:25 Tobberoth wrote:
I'll probably never even enter it. The profits you can make there will be miniscule and there's no way I'll pay real money for a bunch of bits in a Blizzard database somewhere.
Real money used to be a bunch of paper that people agreed to value to make exchange of goods and services easier. Nowadays real money is a bunch of bits in your bank's database, which is given value by the Central Bank. |
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| brainox Germany. May 25 2012 17:35. Posts 225 | Profile # |
On May 25 2012 17:31 Fuzzyhead wrote:
depends on the price, I am totally in the dark about that
how much real world money will buy you an item with a value of 1m?
10 $ / Euro, more or less?
that will probably depend on how many people are willed to buy with real money. if there are many then the price will get higher |
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| Lylat France. May 25 2012 17:39. Posts 3202 | Profile # |
| I don't see the point of buying items with real money. Since you reach max lvl early (#from D2) the only reason to play is to get good gear but if you buy it, why would you keep playing ? |
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| C[h]ili Germany. May 25 2012 17:41. Posts 84 | Profile # |
On May 25 2012 17:31 Fuzzyhead wrote:
depends on the price, I am totally in the dark about that
how much real world money will buy you an item with a value of 1m?
10 $ / Euro, more or less?
Well, if you look at Ebay, the price for 1m gold was between 40 and 20 €. Guess that will go down further as the market increases, though.
In D2 you could get high runes for 2 to 3 € a piece. Currently some items in the AH sell at 10 million gold or higher, which would translate into a value of 200€. I find that quite ridiculous.
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| Tobberoth Sweden. May 25 2012 17:44. Posts 4539 | Profile # |
On May 25 2012 17:33 Reasonable wrote:
Show nested quote +On May 25 2012 17:25 Tobberoth wrote:
I'll probably never even enter it. The profits you can make there will be miniscule and there's no way I'll pay real money for a bunch of bits in a Blizzard database somewhere.
Real money used to be a bunch of paper that people agreed to value to make exchange of goods and services easier. Nowadays real money is a bunch of bits in your bank's database, which is given value by the Central Bank.
Yeah, but those bits in the bank can be exchanged for the same amount in cash. Those awesome items I paid 100 dollars for make me kill an enemy in a game in one hit instead of two, yay. |
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| Drium United States. May 25 2012 19:34. Posts 752 | Profile Blog # |
| There are higher fees involved with the RMAH, and since you can sell gold on it I think most sellers will opt to use the regular AH for items and then just put up gold if they want to cash out. I'd predict the only things that get sold on the RMAH are gold and a few super high end items. |
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| Reasonable Ukraine. May 25 2012 19:46. Posts 1331 | Profile # |
On May 25 2012 17:44 Tobberoth wrote:
Show nested quote +On May 25 2012 17:33 Reasonable wrote:
On May 25 2012 17:25 Tobberoth wrote:
I'll probably never even enter it. The profits you can make there will be miniscule and there's no way I'll pay real money for a bunch of bits in a Blizzard database somewhere.
Real money used to be a bunch of paper that people agreed to value to make exchange of goods and services easier. Nowadays real money is a bunch of bits in your bank's database, which is given value by the Central Bank.
Yeah, but those bits in the bank can be exchanged for the same amount in cash. Those awesome items I paid 100 dollars for make me kill an enemy in a game in one hit instead of two, yay.
Lol cash is just paper that is endued with power to buy goods and services, just like Diablo 3 gold. There used to be a problem with liquidity with previous game currencies, but since gold and your local currency can be exchanged freely now, there is no difference between real cash and Diablo 3 gold. If you have D3 gold and don't want to spend it on items, convert it into your local currency and go buy bread, for instance. |
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| diehilde Germany. May 25 2012 20:24. Posts 1514 | Profile # |
| by the time rmah gets introduced, I will most likely have quitted the game. I had my fair share of grinding and gearing in WoW, I wont stay just to do that in a single player game. Also anybody who thinks it is an achievement to complete diablo 3 softcore on inferno needs to get a grip on reality. All it says is that you spent a LOT of time or a lot of money on the ah. Its like folding a billion origami swans - its not an achievement, its stupidity. Would have loved to tackle inferno hc, but obviously they tweaked it for softcore so people keep gearing for ages and ages and spend money on the rmah. The game will probably be fun for the next 3-4 weeks, but I dont see it lasting much longer. Being Max level grinding for better gear for months was bearable in WoW because the content you would grind and the mechanics themselves were actually a lot more enjoyable (only played vanilla). But in D3? Imo you have to be pretty braindead to stay committed. |
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