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Why would people buy D3 items?
I really can't come up with any reason to buy d3 items in rmah.
Once you buy the item, it take out the fun of grinding for them. Also wtf you going to do with full set of best gear? you cant show off ..its not an MMORPG..u cant going around ganking poeple. ..not sure about pvp..pvp wasnt so good in d2
And once you have the best gear ...the next thing to do is roll alt or just stop playing. I mean really buy the game ..buy items and stop playing lol
Anyone can come up a good reason to buy items in d3?
not hating on rmah....but i might like d3 more without it lol
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While your logic is sound, I don't see the appeal of grinding just for items. I never did it in D2, I played the game because it was fun to play it, not because I was hoping a windforce would drop and I'd be the fastest clicker.
I believe that after countless hours of gameplay and having some really good gear , you might not overlook something even better, and... if it's mean paying for it, why not?
Look at that axe whatever, it's just better gear, and your gear is already really good but this will be like awesomesaus.
After many hours of gameplay you become more involve and might give in and buy some nice sweetness.
Just saying I would do it and for that I curse blizzard.
I won't buy the game because of the buisness model, easy money for them. The player is really down on the ladder of blizzard, we are just cows to milk. nothing more
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Don't be fooled. Lots of people want shortcuts to the good stuff and have money to spend for it to boot.
I, however, am not such a person. I'd rather get my son a brandspanking new toy than buy a digital axe for my pixel-alt.
I WILL be selling, however. Little brat needs himself a new Elmo
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Thats the problem, everyone plans to sell, dont think many people plan to buy.
The arguement is that they don't have enough time to play so to catch up with everyone else they will buy them. I say life is unfair that people can't be in 2 places at the same time but real life priorities should take preference. Not everyone was meant to have time for gaming.
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Everything is about acquiring better items. Loot drops are the engine that has always powered the Diablo franchise. But sometimes, you could play for months and never see the item you want, which can be especially irritating if you are wanting to complete a set. Trading with other players is sometimes the only effective method of getting these rare items.
The problem I have with the RMT scheme is that *it* is now the only effective method of acquiring rare gear when you've had no success with the loot lottery.
I'm actually expecting that it won't be used, not for anything really difficult to obtain. I fully expect anyone who comes across a really sweet ultra-rare to want to cash in on it (who could blame them right?). The in-game AH will be where everything else will be dumped. Stuff where the drop rates aren't so miniscule that grinding for them is actually viable.
I could be wrong though. I have been before. I'll be watching to see how the RMT develops, but right now, I think I'm pretty much on the mark.
I think some of you are missing the OPs point.
First I believe he's referring to endgame top of the line stuff (after all, why buy stuff you won't use after a few levels).
Secondly, he's talking about how there's nothing else to do for the endgame except collect loot, so if you just pay for it, then you've removed the only reason to play after leveling a character.
Whether or not the second part is true remains to be seen.
yes sir, you are right on both points lol
After a bit of thinking ...i came up with a reason why i might buy items...
The items i might buy in rmah are high end gear with MAGIC FINDING stats lol
Personally I don’t care if people buy and sell for real money.
Here is a my opinion though.
Given Blizz is limited every payer 10 items at a time, I expect the selling price to be very low even on high end items. The reason I believe this is that everyday 300000 people will be flooding the market with items That is 3 million items a day that will hit the sales board. Search eBay and I bet you can’t find 3000 items.
It is a win against real money sales being nothing more than a couple bucks here and there. Blizz knew it would drive plat farming and RM sale sites out of business.
Think about it a minute.
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I did thought about it 2 seconde and came to the conclusion that blizzard indeed want gamers to buy with ingame gold and not with real money.
The real money was never a point for them because they would simply generate money for the company, which is not working as intended.
I'm sure they anticipated that and they don't want the RM sales to pick up and thrive their company.
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I think I will sell my items on the gold auction house . At crazy prices .
gold = real money
I will then sell gold on the RMAH since it will be needed to repair , buy items on the auction house that are at crazy prices
See 1 item might only be useful to a few people of that class , But gold is useful to EVERYONE .
So Im selling gold on RMAH .
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The only time I can see players buying gear for power is to beat inferno difficulty, the D3 devs have admitted they have not completed inferno so that's challenge accept as far as I am concerned, though I don't plan to put money into the system I would have no issue selling gold on RMHA and using the funds from that to buy something that I really need, but is just not dropping so I can progress rather then hitting a brick wall for weeks on end cus I cannot get passed an encounter.
Its pretty simple really . An item drops , super rare 1 in a million . Its worth easily $1000 . The RMAH cap is $250 , Clearly I would be foolish to sell such an item at 4 times less than its price.
So I sell it on the Gold Auction house
if $1 = 100,000 gold then I will sell it for 100,000,000 gol
But WAIT !!!
Blizzard will take 15% of the gold so I have to add that onto the price . Also they will take 15% + $4 of the $1,000 when I sell the gold in $250 lots .
So I will have to add about 30% on the value of the 100 million
which makes the super RARE item sell for 130,000,000 millio
This means I actually sold the item for $1,300 worth of gold .
I guess you could say blizzard is the taxman
... the only way to sell items worth more than $250 is to sell gold or use a 3rd party site.
After there's some money in the system I think you'll find there will be many of us that just use the RMT money we made from selling things, to go buy something with.
Or if not that, then sell items on the in game AH for gold, sell the gold on the RMT AH, then use the RMT money to buy the good stuff? Something like that.
I guess the OP is unfamiliar with the D2 market.
I am concerned that Blizzard has a big incentive to make drops really rare to urge people to buy gear on the market in order to be able to beat inferno.
In the end, I have the willpower not to be suckered into buying items just to beat inferno. My preference would be to first sell gear and then use that money to buy stuff.
Since when did today's gamer do anything for the sake of fun?
People will buy it because it's easier than spending hours/weeks/months looking for it.
I do agree though, that once you get it, there really isn't anything else to do with it. Yes, there will be PvP.. but you can't really show it off to thousands of people. People will still do it though. And that PvP really isn't very meaningful either. People are lazy. It's human nature.
I'm thinking more along the lines of $10... There is going to be so many items on the AH. It is going to be flooded with millions of items. Sure, some items may inflate the price... but don't realistically expect to be the only person to have that item. If there is a few others on the market.. then your price goes down. If there are a dozen, it goes down further. I think people will learn real fast that they aren't going to make a huge amount of money selling items. Most items will go for no more than a nicket, dime, or quarter. Even for really nice items, no more than a dollar or two. Maybe five bucks. But, I just don't see many people selling things for 100 bucks on a regular basis.. That would be a once in a blue moon occasion that most of us will never have.
All the "hints" thrown at us show that reaching "endgame" (aka being able to "solo inferno" or whatever your goals are) will be hard. People will need lots of skill and very good endgame gear and materials (hint - check the gem tables, get info about how those top gems are obtained, what's needed, and that's only gems) to survive that difficulty. My feeling is that there will always be a high demand of those, but also that the gold AH will be the really busy place, not the RMAH. I tend to believe that dedicated materials farmers will do better in terms of earnings from the RMAH than those who plan to hit the jackpot with a really awesome item.
Some items are super rare , and then you need the randomly generated stats on them to be good . So some items might be 1 in a 100 million chance to be dropped.
However consider this , Blizzard make 15% + $1 from every transaction so clearly I wont be selling items for less than $1 .
And the cap is $250 , eventually they state you can sell characters as well.