Diablo 3 Auction house shutting down

Azisien · 09-19-2013, 01:15 PM

Yeah as a design concept the Auction House headed up butting heads directly with one of the core design pillars of Diablo, cleaning out dungeons and sorting through sweet loot.

While grinding is literally unavoidable for the endgame, it was a choice of grinding between Diablo and Stock Investor Portfolio Simulator 2012-2013, the latter of which yielded much greater rewards in terms of loot.

And the AH wasn't just for endgame, you could get miles ahead at any point of the game if you used AH and your friends didn't. IN fact it seemed often cheaper to do so before endgame, because then you didn't have endgame prices, just garbage people look to make a quick buck on.

This is a step in the right direction for Diablo 3 but the game overall didn't have the charm on me that Diablo 2 had. Also I still find watching Blizzard cinematics the weirdest mixture of some of the best animation I've seen and the fucking worst writing to the point I can't believe a company of professionals went with it. I guess a big chunk of their market is like stoned 13-15 year old's though.

Also still not over getting the shit hacked out of my BNet accounts multiple times. Fuck Blizzard. Still boycotted. I do wonder if taking out the AH would have an effect on that. Supported monetization will become black market monetization, but at least there may be less to gain from breaking into accounts to do the monetization, and the Bot Army can replicate itself into D3 from D2.

09-19-2013, 01:15 PM	#7
Azisien wat Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,177	Yeah as a design concept the Auction House headed up butting heads directly with one of the core design pillars of Diablo, cleaning out dungeons and sorting through sweet loot. While grinding is literally unavoidable for the endgame, it was a choice of grinding between Diablo and Stock Investor Portfolio Simulator 2012-2013, the latter of which yielded much greater rewards in terms of loot. And the AH wasn't just for endgame, you could get miles ahead at any point of the game if you used AH and your friends didn't. IN fact it seemed often cheaper to do so before endgame, because then you didn't have endgame prices, just garbage people look to make a quick buck on. This is a step in the right direction for Diablo 3 but the game overall didn't have the charm on me that Diablo 2 had. Also I still find watching Blizzard cinematics the weirdest mixture of some of the best animation I've seen and the fucking worst writing to the point I can't believe a company of professionals went with it. I guess a big chunk of their market is like stoned 13-15 year old's though. Also still not over getting the shit hacked out of my BNet accounts multiple times. Fuck Blizzard. Still boycotted. I do wonder if taking out the AH would have an effect on that. Supported monetization will become black market monetization, but at least there may be less to gain from breaking into accounts to do the monetization, and the Bot Army can replicate itself into D3 from D2.