The majority of the QQ over RMAH comes down to the idea that people who have played through endless hours of content to get their items, and the prestige and sense of accomplishment that comes along with that, will be pissed off if they see someone sporting better gear than they have that has been purchased with RM on the AH.
Solution:
For every item bought off the RMAH add a line of text under the item description and item stats that says " This item purchased on RMAH", or "RMAH item". I believe this will still enable people to purchase items on the RMAH but it will make other players that have earned their items the classic way feel more validated, and it will perhaps discourage gearing up solely by using the RMAH to purchase items.
While that would work, it would be even better if there was a right click on item command for each item(right click a item, and it shows the entire history of a item. Rather it was crafted/who crafted it, traded, bought in RMAH, exc).
..if people want to play hardcore from the start, its very simple...
u play-through Normal trying not to die once... if u die, u just delete the character, and start all over again...
Q. Do you have to play through softcore to unlock hardcore?
JW: Oooh, good question, yes, you will have to play through to a certain point to unlock hardcore mode, I think it's through normal difficulty after you kill the end boss. I'm like 90% sure, so we could change our minds.
but this still is not entirely blizzards fault its just how the industry works...sadly
The fact a digital copy is being sold for full blown retail price(there's many games I refuse to by, because there's no physical copy, and they want such a price) is how the industry sadly is, but the fact it costs more in another country then the US counterpart, is so Blizzard's fualt.
Also in addition, most retailers assume the publisher of a product does the conversion when giving the recommended price.
It's all Blizzard's fault for recommending it be sold at X price(the fact they run thier store this way, only goes to prove they are the cause of such).
i dont think it wil be 70€ it will be 100$ and 100€ pretty sure about this
Wha... what, if this is the case, and I lived in the UK, I would boycott everything Blizzard. What greedy ********, charging other countries more dough, because their money is worth more then the dollar. Infact people should report Blizzard to the BBB for running a scam.
I never heard of a company that didn't go along with the conversion rates of other countries.
PS. It's dumb, greedy **** like this that promotes private servers, and hacking in general.
..i dont know in UK, but here in Greece where i live, its not the company's fault... it's usually the local "sharks" who do that to stuff that they import...
It's not the local stores that charge that much for the games, it's Blizzard. These are the prices when i would buy the digital version of the game from the battle.net store:
SCII: 59.99 euros
WoW/DII/LoD/WC3/SC: 14.99 euros
And these are digital versions directly from blizzard... (i'd expect this to be cheaper without box etc)
Good thing i had a friend working at a game store so i could buy SCII for 40 euros. I must say i don't like how we pay much more in Europe than other parts of the world.
Yep, just as I thought, thanks for the confirmation(I knew it was highly doubtful the retail stores would've been the ones responsable for such pricing).
Note to Blizzard(or any developer for that matter): Don't ever use the "accessible", and "streamlined" terms. They are very bad words when talking about games.
Well it sounds like the main problem they're facing now is how to keep your inventory and stash from being cluttered with runes, so I don't see this solving that.
There's a very easy solution, make runes stackable(there aren't many runes to beginwith, so this would easily fix the inventory/stash issue).
How would you stack runes with random affixes though? They want to keep the random affixes but manage the inventory currently.
Bah yea that's right, they are pushing thet. Ok how about this, make bags with inventory slots in them(that can only hold runes), each bag will only take up 1 inventory/stash slot, but would hold potentially dozens of runes.
If you need to actually see how such a system would work, look at the collection/gem bags in DDO(something simular to that would work perfectly).
Well it sounds like the main problem they're facing now is how to keep your inventory and stash from being cluttered with runes, so I don't see this solving that.
There's a very easy solution, make runes stackable(there aren't many runes to beginwith, so this would easily fix the inventory/stash issue).
Well it sounds like the main problem they're facing now is how to keep your inventory and stash from being cluttered with runes, so I don't see this solving that.
I'm disapointed that Force didn't ask about the rune system in how you needed to place it in a skill, to know what "type" of rune it is(come on man, you're suppose to be speaking up on behalf of the playerbase), but luckily Jay just basically offered the info(I'm sure if he didn't, Blizzard stock would drop, that's how bad that idea was).
Atleast we know someone who works for Blizzard realizes what a POS that idea was, so gives us hope atleast.
Lol it would be funny as hell if hardcore char perma died in PvP, but yea no one would PvP if that was the case.
yeah but as stated by Livevil and Vagelis4V its mostly on the retailers part and as always it sucks to live in europe especially germany considering all the censored versions we get here...
but on the bright side we have boobs and are allowed say fuck and shit on television
edit: oh yeah and we make the best beer in the world
Yea, I always found it funny what kinds of things are cencored over there(the US has almost the strictest cencorship in the world, yet they don't cencor some of those things. Also yea, you can say stuff on tv over there, that would make the government go apeshit if said on the tv here).
i dont think it wil be 70€ it will be 100$ and 100€ pretty sure about this
Wha... what, if this is the case, and I lived in the UK, I would boycott everything Blizzard. What greedy ********, charging other countries more dough, because their money is worth more then the dollar. Infact people should report Blizzard to the BBB for running a scam.
I never heard of a company that didn't go along with the conversion rates of other countries.
PS. It's dumb, greedy **** like this that promotes private servers, and hacking in general.
..i dont know in UK, but here in Greece where i live, its not the company's fault... it's usually the local "sharks" who do that to stuff that they import...
I've seen that done alot with anime importers(where they increase the price, just for the hell of it), but the ting is, we aren't dealing with importers here, Blizzard is releasing the games in the UK, to be sold in retail stores.
Seeing how retail stores in the US don't even pull that crap, I find it hard to swallow that retail stores in a country that actually functions, would do that.
i dont think it wil be 70€ it will be 100$ and 100€ pretty sure about this
Wha... what, if this is the case, and I lived in the UK, I would boycott everything Blizzard. What greedy ********, charging other countries more dough, because their money is worth more then the dollar. Infact people should report Blizzard to the BBB for running a scam.
I never heard of a company that didn't go along with the conversion rates of other countries.
PS. It's dumb, greedy **** like this that promotes private servers, and hacking in general.
lols. CE costs around 150dollars in sweden, so no thnx to that. while you can get D3 for 48dollars. wonder why CE is so freaking expensive here...CE content costs more than the game! -.-
Yikes that's crazy, I wonder why It's so expensive there.
i think cause it's only available in US normally? so they need to import it or something. it's available on amazon.com but that just ships in US? it's not available at amazon uk anyways.
in any case, i wont be getting it then
i'd want it for the bonus DVDs and art book, Tyrael wings would be neat too ^^
Amazon has branches in Canada, and UK(I think UK has one) as well. That's kind of crazy though(I import stuff all the time, and never had to pay such a blown up price). I can see if it weighed an insane amount or something, but for a game/any media format for that matter, that's so expensive(sigh it costs so much extra, you can buy an extra game for that kind of money).
To the post on insane price hykes: Hm, that's I can't help but notice, most of those are nothing more then over hyped titles(Assassins Creed seems to be the only game there even worth a fraction of the hype it has got).
It seems like only the companies that spend more effort on creating hype, then creating the game, have these insane prices on CE.
lols. CE costs around 150dollars in sweden, so no thnx to that. while you can get D3 for 48dollars. wonder why CE is so freaking expensive here...CE content costs more than the game! -.-
Yikes that's crazy, I wonder why It's so expensive there.
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While that would work, it would be even better if there was a right click on item command for each item(right click a item, and it shows the entire history of a item. Rather it was crafted/who crafted it, traded, bought in RMAH, exc).
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Lol yep that works.
To optaboy: Exactly
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Come on now, It's only normal, and who would even start a hardcore char, without even knowing the game first.
Yea, that was funny as hell.
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The fact a digital copy is being sold for full blown retail price(there's many games I refuse to by, because there's no physical copy, and they want such a price) is how the industry sadly is, but the fact it costs more in another country then the US counterpart, is so Blizzard's fualt.
Also in addition, most retailers assume the publisher of a product does the conversion when giving the recommended price.
It's all Blizzard's fault for recommending it be sold at X price(the fact they run thier store this way, only goes to prove they are the cause of such).
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Yep, just as I thought, thanks for the confirmation(I knew it was highly doubtful the retail stores would've been the ones responsable for such pricing).
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Note to Blizzard(or any developer for that matter): Don't ever use the "accessible", and "streamlined" terms. They are very bad words when talking about games.
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Bah yea that's right, they are pushing thet. Ok how about this, make bags with inventory slots in them(that can only hold runes), each bag will only take up 1 inventory/stash slot, but would hold potentially dozens of runes.
If you need to actually see how such a system would work, look at the collection/gem bags in DDO(something simular to that would work perfectly).
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There's a very easy solution, make runes stackable(there aren't many runes to beginwith, so this would easily fix the inventory/stash issue).
No in a interview between Force, and Jay.
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Atleast we know someone who works for Blizzard realizes what a POS that idea was, so gives us hope atleast.
Lol it would be funny as hell if hardcore char perma died in PvP, but yea no one would PvP if that was the case.
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Yea, I always found it funny what kinds of things are cencored over there(the US has almost the strictest cencorship in the world, yet they don't cencor some of those things. Also yea, you can say stuff on tv over there, that would make the government go apeshit if said on the tv here).
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I've seen that done alot with anime importers(where they increase the price, just for the hell of it), but the ting is, we aren't dealing with importers here, Blizzard is releasing the games in the UK, to be sold in retail stores.
Seeing how retail stores in the US don't even pull that crap, I find it hard to swallow that retail stores in a country that actually functions, would do that.
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I never really seen it before, but ok, so Blizzard clearly Isn't the only one, but that sure as hell doesn't make it right.
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Wha... what, if this is the case, and I lived in the UK, I would boycott everything Blizzard. What greedy ********, charging other countries more dough, because their money is worth more then the dollar. Infact people should report Blizzard to the BBB for running a scam.
I never heard of a company that didn't go along with the conversion rates of other countries.
PS. It's dumb, greedy **** like this that promotes private servers, and hacking in general.
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Amazon has branches in Canada, and UK(I think UK has one) as well. That's kind of crazy though(I import stuff all the time, and never had to pay such a blown up price). I can see if it weighed an insane amount or something, but for a game/any media format for that matter, that's so expensive(sigh it costs so much extra, you can buy an extra game for that kind of money).
To the post on insane price hykes: Hm, that's I can't help but notice, most of those are nothing more then over hyped titles(Assassins Creed seems to be the only game there even worth a fraction of the hype it has got).
It seems like only the companies that spend more effort on creating hype, then creating the game, have these insane prices on CE.
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Yikes that's crazy, I wonder why It's so expensive there.