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So why did yall try to sneak PvP in with Horde mode? lol, trying to make it look like people want PvP to be the end game...
wow.... awesome first post.
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Aug 21, 2011
mindstain posted a message on DiabloCast: Episode XXII - Be Your Own DemonPosted in: News
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Aug 20, 2011
mindstain posted a message on DiabloCast: Episode XXII - Be Your Own DemonThe bounty hunter idea is actually a pretty good idea. It fits the "we'll offer incentives not to farm the same bosses repeatedly" idea they had also.Posted in: News
While we are on the copy and paste WoW systems mood, what about an end-game currency (sellable on RMAH ofc, before you anti-RMAH nutters get in on this) that can be earned for some random end such as high tier gear, large or specific & special upgrades to artisans, reapplication of runes, or a title or some achievement style crap? -
Aug 20, 2011
mindstain posted a message on DiabloCast: Episode XXII - Be Your Own Demonend-game content for release does seem premature. That being said, I do hope that with a content patch in the somewhat near future of the release date there will be some kind of original end-game content (not just a supernova difficulty or some crap). I don't think the Ubers was bad implementation don't get me wrong, but it's kinda "been there done that" for an end-game option to a new Diablo game in the series. I can see them wanting to hold back on a lot of new content for expansions, but there should be some small installments for people to use their inferno gear on. I think future expansions, which will most likely bring a level cap rise, should bring new content as well that can be expounded upon in content patches so we never feel like we've hit the ceiling of playing Diablo III content so to speak.Posted in: News
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Aug 12, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedPosted in: NewsQuote from Simpy7
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Guess what. There is no end-all solution to hacking. There are some pretty functional safeguards to duping though, and the RMAH is going to be a very good strategy to do just that. Not because it will generate extra money for Blizzard to purchase a bunch of scrubs to sit in each others laps and type faster with four hands on a keyboard vs. two. Just because it is a strong system based on it's functionality and eliminating the demand for third party sites.
At least we can agree on this ^^
As for "throwing money at baddies" I'm not sure I know what you mean.
We have not seen RMAH in action yet so ofc there might be issues with it, but isn't it like that with everything that is new? Anyway I see the revenues blizzard is getting from RMAH as an incentive for them to keep it safe and effective. If there's cheating involved in some way Blizzard will have to put that on highest prio because of RM that is involved - most of it theirs ^^
You never get items for free - time is money =)
Well there is the obvious contingency of "cheaters wind up making Blizzard more money". Obviously, with a flat rate exchange fee for Blizzard and a cash out fee for Blizzard. Gold Farmers bring lower prices to the table, which in turn = more transactions being made on the RMAH. Also, they mean more cash out transactions which = another fee collection for Blizzard. What incentive do you as a player offer to Blizzard to encourage them to keep said market "fair" as you put it? A fair market does not = as many transactions as a buyers market, and Blizzard will benefit from the # of transactions being made.
By "throwing money at baddies" I mean that people are simply identifying a problem and assuming that if they give Blizzard more money Blizzard will just make it go away. The problem with this is that identifying a problem just caused you to give Blizzard money. Therefore, sustaining while limiting or appearing to respond to a problem just became a more lucrative endeavor than actually solving that problem. -
Aug 9, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedPosted in: NewsQuote from Jackzor
Bad luck for you. Not only did I rarely see bots, but when I reported them they were pretty quickly taken care of. Farming, and selling items for real money, is something that would happen either way. I fail to see how its at all game breaking now that Blizzard will hypothetically have much more control over the item trade.
I fail to see it as gamebreaking as well. Just because I agree that hacking will be an issue and throwing money at it won't necessarily "solve" it, doesn't mean I'm chicken little waiting for the secret cow level to come crashing down. They will hypothetically have more control of Diablo III what WoW imo. Hypothetically, they will control pricing so that it does not reach outrageous levels that leads to constant spamming of complaints in a public trade channel such as in WoW. Hypothetically, there could be someone else out there who unlike you saw bots in WoW and unlike me didn't know that they were the same character name as someone they knew in real life. Hypothetically, that person wouldn't even be aware of bots. Especially since they spend the majority of their time running out-dated areas in places within the game known as "instances"...... see where I'm going with this?
Point still stands I support the RMAH and will participate in it. However, I r not like hear stupid WoW fanboism or Blizzard fanboism, cuz I r spoiled internetz video gamer who r talk about things in video game he don't like even when it pointless.
Guess what. There is no end-all solution to hacking. There are some pretty functional safeguards to duping though, and the RMAH is going to be a very good strategy to do just that. Not because it will generate extra money for Blizzard to purchase a bunch of scrubs to sit in each others laps and type faster with four hands on a keyboard vs. two. Just because it is a strong system based on it's functionality and eliminating the demand for third party sites. -
Aug 9, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedPosted in: NewsQuote from Jackzor
Clearly you've never played WoW. Because the majority of what customer service does is answer and respond to complaints, most of which are about bots seeing as they made it extremely easy to report people. So their job is in large part banning bots/hackers.
As far as hacking, the only thing they'd ever be able to steal would be Blizzard currency that would only be able to be turned into cash if they hacked the relevant person's PayPal as well.
I actually have played WoW and the majority of their time is spent reimbursing people for lost items/gold that was hacked, squandered (though they only do this a limited amount of times), or stolen. I personally have reported people who have hacked my friends accounts and ran bots SEVERAL times, only to see them constantly continuing to run the Hellfire Rampants in order to farm gold. Obviously, the only reason a character would be repeatedly running Hellfire Rampants and not responding to my repeated taunts involving his/her mother, a broomstick, a chili pepper, and some petroleum jelly would be because that character was being botted.
I personally witnessed this for well over a period of 6 months. Myself and several of my friends reported it repeatedly. -
Aug 9, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedPosted in: NewsQuote from -Mephisto
Stop making it sound like Blizzard employe people whose sole task is to ban bots and hackers.
^ this. Whether you agree with RMAH or not, acting like Blizzard is magically going to solve all of your problems you are experiencing as a gamer by including a system that involves real money in trading requires so much explanation you will probably become conceited and think you are the smartest fucker in the world and ignore any problems that could come up with a RMAH, because your defense of it is "so well thought out". Yea....... Blizzard is going to make all the baddies go away when we throw money at them because....... "people want to pay for items that would be otherwise free". Real "well thought out"!
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Bits of code written to be run in conjunction with the game created by someone other than Blizzard.Just because Blizzard does not support addons for Diablo iii, doesn't mean none will exist.If it is untraceable, Diablo's version of Warden won't find it, and if there is website access, I doubt the Diii version of Warden will be running in the background at the time.Quote from Simpy7Addons = not existing in Diablo 3? Or maybe you mean a third party program?
^ this is a real concern. Funny thing is much richer companies than Blizzard pay much more educated technicians than Blizzard game designers to defend their technology from hacking. Yet organizations like anonymous still manage to make them shake at the knees. If there is enough reason to do it, someone will eventually hack anything. -
Aug 6, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedPosted in: NewsQuote from Ferret
Quote from Rubarack
This is going to involve making up some numbers and those numbers are key to this issue.
Hmm.
By deductive reasoning skills, I have derived the following equation:
Make up some Numbers (x) = Numbers (x) are the key to this issue
As we know, X cancels out, so were left with... Make up some issue? I mean, you can't say you're gonna make something up and then base your whole conclusion why something is detriminal on that made up fact.
What do you think is going to happen once people meet their limit for free postings a week? People will be going crazy playing this game when it comes out, and find according levels of loot. It is in their best interest to post these on the gold AH once their RMT limit is reached without having to pay for further postings. That way, they can turn around next week and sell all the gold they made from those items as well. I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to sell 5 items for cash and have 10,000 gold to sell next week instead of just 5 items and nothing else? Everyone who posts more than the limit has to pay Blizzard upfront, and if that item doesn't sell...
Well put. For this reason a lot of you "I don't want to particpate in a P2W" moral highgrounders will be supporting the Chinese gold farmers you despise so much by participating in only the GAH. Farmers will see the incentive of cutting out the middle man (Blizzard posting/selling fees) by selling items on the GAH and then selling the gold in one lump sum. Gold will sell consistently more than likely, and the mantra in the beginning will most likely be that gold < what it should be worth in the eyes of most players simply because there is a RMAH and real money to be had. Also, a lot of people playing the RMAH will most likely buy gold from it to purchase artisans, followers, etc. -
Aug 4, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedPosted in: NewsQuote from professor_zim
Haven't read the above comments, maybe someone said it already.
If they introduce ever increasing tax on putting items to auction, that would prevent farming/botting. Say if there are 10 open bids, it would cost 11% of asked price to put 11th item, 12% for 12th etc, up to 100%. Or same, but on the daily basis, that would force acquiring multiple copies of the game, setting up multiple money accounts and would not generate any profit above some small amount. In other words, Blizzard could limit how much money an account could make per day.
What do you think?
Sounds like punishing people for even using the system. Even if it only limited on a daily or a weekly basis, I don't think it is a constructive solution to the "farming" issue. Not that I thought a RMAH was the best choice either. -
Aug 4, 2011
mindstain posted a message on The Auction House ExplainedSomething I can't help but feel like is being overlooked here is the incentive to compromise accounts. Even with a new battle.net the risk of your account being hacked is still real. Ask anyone playing WoW on the new battle.net right now if they think it means they don't need an authenticator anymore. Even with an authenticator your chances of being hacked are only decreased. Maintaining an account of real money through Battle.net (even if I haven't invested any of my own money after purchasing diablo III) makes the likelihood of my account being hacked an even bigger issue for me...... not to mention how enticing it will now be to Chinese "farmers".Posted in: News
Also, a lot of people seem to think that since the "farmers" in WoW are content to gold farm, they will only care to gold farm in Diablo III. However, Diablo III is going to be a completely different game from WoW, and without having the economy already established to reference we can't really presume to know just how strong in-game gold will be. Especially with the RMAH undermining it's value. Even without having the system in place to reference it's obvious that RMAH undermines gold. It may not make gold completely worthless, but it makes it so that you can circumvent using it at least in the AH by using real money and if you need it for something in game you can just buy as much as you need with real money. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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I was forced to weather the storm of so many Blizzard fanboys with such stale arguements as "I run an anti-virus and don't go to porn sites and I've never been hacked" or "an authenticator makes it virtually impossible to get hacked", but the worst and most obviously erroneous of these arguments would have to be "the new Battle.net is gonna be so secure that the only people who get hacked don't have authenticators and are stupid."
If you go to the Diablo III forums right now you can read the ranting of numerous Diablo III players (many of whom own authenticators) that have had their accounts hacked/stolen and their items stripped from them. Blizzard has responded with a generic "buy our authenticators response" TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT THEIR AUTHENTICATORS.
I swear if I had the time and the energy I would try to track all of you fanboys down now for you "I told you so" come-up-ins. Alas, I'm a lazy old bastard trolling during Diablo maintenance who hopes as soon as it's over he can log in and find that he is lucky enough not to have had all of his gear removed by a scoundrel so devious and so ingenius to have wasted his time robbing me of the pixels on a video game for a mere pittance of what he/she could have actually made working a job.
P.S. how many of you think this occurence will make you hesitant to participate in using the RMAH? (not that your credit card info isn't already tied to your battle.net account from any previous online purchases such as Diablo III download or WoW game time.)
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These pigs make me sick. Tell me you wouldn't sleep better tonight knowing that at least a couple of these pigs got punched in the face a few times.
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"diablo has never been about modding"
"The community doesn't always make a game better"
"UI modification is almost pointless"
Statements like these are simply stupid. It's just stupid people condemning what they do not understand. If you don't like mods, don't use them. You can't call them pointless or detrimental as if it's not just your own twisted little opinion, but some universally known fact. Fact is, some people like mods.
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FFIII (US)
FFX
FFVIII
Neverwinter Nights
Secret of Mana
Chronotrigger
FFXII
Legend of Dragoon
7th Saga
I've enjoyed every FF title except XIII honestly. I hate the new system. I actually played XI online for awhile and was quite immersed in it as well, but the best online world to spark my imagination and give me that "reading a great book" feeling was Neverwinter Nights. I never even played through the single player campaign completely, but some of the player generated servers were so amazing it made that game timeless. I can still go back and play on some of those servers today and feel overwhelmed with nostalgia.
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All trolling aside, you've done an awesome job keeping the community informed and entertained. Thank the Gawd-bomb you are featured and not the fallout newbie at Gamespy.
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My middle name is Dylan after Bob Dylan. My first name is Jesse after Jesse James. My father used to tell me he named me after "a poet and a thief."
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I am somewhat of a hypocrite I suppose considering I have not masterminded a new strategy that will muster creativity and innovative participation in others, but the fact still stands that rich and powerful people in our country now see protests as a minor/financial hindrance and most often one they ignore almost entirely. Take the recent rule of no dancing at national monuments. It was outrageous that they arrested people (violently taking them into custody btw) for dancing ANYWHERE in America, and there was quite a large resistance movement planned where an enormous group of upset people gathered at danced at a monument in defiance of the absurd rule. None of that group were arrested that I know of, but the stupid rule still stands as far as I know.
The fact is, if rich and powerful people want to restrict your freedom for their own gain or ego, whatever the reason, it is all to easy for them to "talk to the right people" and get things done. The majority of people in our country don't have any recourse when suffering at the hands of a corporate dominated economy for instance. They can't just "pull a few strings" like some corporate asshat who decides that his profit margin is far more important than the well-being of our country. Anonymous seemed like they were on the road to leveling the playing field a bit. They don't only peacefully protest. They have the means to hit em where it hurts. Their pocketbooks. I guess I just hoped for a more direct approach from Anonymous considering they have had such a direct approach in the past.
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I have done more than my far share of bitching in the streets, and I certainly don't regret it. I can remember organizing with a group called "food not bombs" where we actually fed the homeless. Untill, local governments realized that we were spreading anti-national dissent. Apparently, if you aren't spreading the gospel of zombie jesus and how his flesh will help you live forever and grant you with the ability to communicate your submission to his will and power telepathically...... you shouldn't have the right to feed the homeless. Maybe, it's just that all my "organizing" days left a bad taste in my mouth, and I would actually like to "fucking do something."
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wow.... awesome first post.
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Spam is bleh....... I like toast!
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While we are on the copy and paste WoW systems mood, what about an end-game currency (sellable on RMAH ofc, before you anti-RMAH nutters get in on this) that can be earned for some random end such as high tier gear, large or specific & special upgrades to artisans, reapplication of runes, or a title or some achievement style crap?
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