About this comic
It really is crazy. Ever since that D3 real money thing hit, the gold market is ALL jacked up, and inflated all to hell. A think you might have spent 8k on the week before, now runs 250,000 to 500,000 gold. Seems…broken to me, but hey, I am no economist.
It has more to do with botting than the real money auction house. Gold is going to $2 per million gold now.
That’s right kids, the reason you can’t play D3 offline is because bots need to play as well
Well, actually the D3 gold market is crazy on Rare item prices before lvl 55-ish. it’s when you get to 60 that the prices are either dirt cheap or at the 250k+ mark. Usually due to people looking up farming vids and how to get gold fast too.
Blizz PR: “We need Diablo 3 to be always online so we can get rid of cheating, botting, and exploiting. Also, RMAH will make illicit gold sellers go out of business.”
Reality: General chat filled with spam from gold sellers who’ve botted and exploited and stolen accounts.
Something something paved something good intentions.
And I thought Team Fortress 2′s Hat Economy was bad. Yeesh.
Actually they’ve banned thousands of accounts due to botting.
Actually, that means crap, since each account paid itself, and the farmer lost nothing, and got some profit, and will be getting 10 new accounts next day.
Buying gold/accounts in MMOs was hard to understand, now, in a “single player” game, people buy the game, buy the highest gear…. ok, then what?
Might aswell just blow all that cash in booze and strippers -.o
In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if thats exactly what Blizzard wants.
Wait until the 100.000 Bots have farmed enough to buy a new copy + giving some profits to the owner; ban all those 100.000 Bots, sell 100.000 new D3 copies.
Repeat until getting bored of winning money…
You aren’t looking very hard. I’ve geared up to 31k dps 29k hp(wizard) without buying an item costing more then 180kgp. All it takes is a little time and patients.
Its clearly how Blizz wants it. Focus on profit not playability. You want to control it? just cap items and there value. Seeing items listed at 60mil is ridiculous. As for the RMAH, hey if you wanna spend $250 of you hard earned money for a piece of game equipment…..
Let’s see if I got this right: Originally only game-money market (i.e. people wanting to sell stuff could only go there). Then you add real-money market (i.e. people wanting to sell can choose between one or the other). Sellers may decide to prefer one market to the other, driving supply up in one (i.e. market price goes down) and driving supply down in the other (i.e. market price goes up). Might be what has occurred.
There is no Diablo 3. This is not the game you seek.
So glad I didn’t waste my money on this game. Blizzard is a joke and no longer worth supporting. Looking forward to Torchlight 2.