[quote name='blueshinra']I think the bigger story here is that they won't be allowing mods -
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/diablo-iii-will-not-allow-modding[/QUOTE]
Was anybody honestly surprised by this after D2?
[quote name='gargus']What the
is blizzard thinking? Now players with money to burn can outpace other players that chose to try and play the game themselves without cheating. And yes buying items with real money and shortcutting the game is cheating because your bypassing actually playing the game yourself.
Its basically blizzard saying "We dont feel like trying to stop gold sellers and item sellers so were just going to let you sell stuff on your own.....of course we will get a cut of the cash ourselves." So basically blizzard took online item selling and put it in house by instead of letting cheaters make money off other cheaters blizzard will make the money off the cheaters themselves instead of actually solving the problem.
I used to love blizzard but honestly ever since they have been doing cheap money grabs left and right and becoming more about just getting cash than making games since they joined with activision. Its obvious the greed of activision is influencing blizzard now. Since they have joined activision the prices of their pc games has increased like starcraft 2 was 60 bucks for a very long time when before they were always 50 like everyone else, instead of puting all of starcraft 2 into one game they broke it up into 3 games, they started selling mounts and pets in WOW for real money, now you cant play starcraft 2 single player without being logged into b.net and now you can buy items in game with real world money while blizzard gets a cut?
I was really looking forward to diablo 3, but not after this news. I understand kind of why they do this because its going to happen unofficially but instead of them discouraging it they are encouraging it and instead of trying to figure out ways to stop it they are taking the lazy way out and saying "Sure, cheat away just give us money if you do".
Blizzard, your assholes.[/QUOTE]
Starcraft 2: WoL's campaign the same length as the original Starcraft's, and the two sequels will be the same way, with more units and such as well. It's basically two expansion packs. If you recall, Starcraft 1 got an expansion pack. It's nothing new for Blizz. And SC2 single player just needs a online login to play it, once that first check is done, you don't need to be connected anymore.
And as others have said, Diablo doesn't have the same gear dynamics as WoW. It doesn't matter if people buy their equipment or have it drop, as it's no real indicator of skill time spent, as the drop system is random.
[quote name='tcrash247']That's not what I was talking about at all. I'm saying it's quite possible that WoW's AH will go the same route meaning you can purchase things off it for real money. Progression and different bosses dropping different to has nothing to do with it, it would still be the same AH but using real world currency instead of gold.[/QUOTE]
Even if Blizzard does do that, however unlikely, the way equipment works in the game (Soulbinding and all that), it wouldn't be a pay-to-win system either. You can't get most of the items in the game on the AH, so all that would happen is people would pay real world money for a "sweet" motorcycle, or something.
But I don't think it'll happen as it would destroy WoW's gold based economy.