They have 12mil subscribers in WoW, yet you can join any battleground and see 30-50% of the playerbase are botting in there. Not a word of a lie, and I have a good 250k+ hks on my account as experience.
The stuff that's going to be sold on this cash auction house are high-level and rare/epic items mostly. I've never played a lot of Diablo, but I would imagine that kid of loot drops from bosses (or is some ridiculously rare world drop). Can bots really handle bosses that require a little bit more than auto-attacking and using pots? It's as if a group of bots were trying to farm a raid or heroic dungeon in WoW. It also requires a max-level char with decent gear, not some shitty, random "of the wolf" gear that WoW bots tend to wear.
Some other things: there is no Bind on Pickup in Diablo, items can be reused or resold. That means the demand for items will go down as the game gets older.
A bot owner has to sell stuff on the official AH and have a PayPal (or whatever they choose to use) account linked to his battle.net account. He has to expose a lot of his "infrastructure" to Blizzard, which makes it easier to ban him.
Yeah uh Tolkfan, thank you for linking me to an article I read before typing mine up.
Sixen specifically wrote, and I quote:
Quote:
Their reasoning behind doing this is simply because the players want it. If the players didn't want it, they would not have been using shady third party sites, like d2jsp in the D2 era of the series.
As I said in my own post, I'm a d2jsp user, and I know for a fact that it is not shady, and it is quite a legit way to trade items on Diablo 2. I use it quite often actually.
Afterwards, the FAQ specifically says:
<<quote>>Q: How is the transaction fee determined?
A: A nominal fixed transaction fee will be deducted from the seller for each item listed in the auction house. This fee consists of a fixed charge to list the item, which is assessed whether or not the item is successfully sold, and an additional fixed charge that is assessed only if the item is sold. Because the listing portion of the fee is charged even if the item doesn’t sell, it will be in the seller’s interest to list items he or she believes other players will be interested in, and to do so at a competitive price. Specific details related to the transaction fee for the currency-based auction house will vary by region and will be announced at a later date.
Please note that we plan to waive the listing portion of the fee for a limited number of transactions per account. In other words, for these transactions, the seller will only pay a transaction fee if the item is successfully sold, and that fee will not include the listing charge. We’ll have further details on this as well at a later date. <</quote>>
This "Nominal fixed fee" is charged TWICE. Not once, but TWICE. Let's agree that the price you'll display on that Auction house will be deducted by a large amount. There is no way that Blizzard will let you keep the majority of your money while you are using their service.
But I'm even more disgusted at the no-offline (using SC2 model should be fine, why don't you?) and at the dumbed down interface. That flag it uses for achievements is retarded. Give ingame items if you want visuals, but I still want my SC2-esque menu.
They have 12mil subscribers in WoW, yet you can join any battleground and see 30-50% of the playerbase are botting in there. Not a word of a lie, and I have a good 250k+ hks on my account as experience.
Are you sure you're not confusing "botting" with "standing around doing nothing"?
The stuff that's going to be sold on this cash auction house are high-level and rare/epic items mostly. I've never played a lot of Diablo, but I would imagine that kid of loot drops from bosses (or is some ridiculously rare world drop). Can bots really handle bosses that require a little bit more than auto-attacking and using pots? It's as if a group of bots were trying to farm a raid or heroic dungeon in WoW. It also requires a max-level char with decent gear, not some shitty, random "of the wolf" gear that WoW bots tend to wear.
Some other things: there is no Bind on Pickup in Diablo, items can be reused or resold. That means the demand for items will go down as the game gets older.
A bot owner has to sell stuff on the official AH and have a PayPal (or whatever they choose to use) account linked to his battle.net account. He has to expose a lot of his "infrastructure" to Blizzard, which makes it easier to ban him.
@Tolkfan: Go
If a machine can produce it, a machine can interpret it.
@Tolkfan: Go
Yeah uh Tolkfan, thank you for linking me to an article I read before typing mine up.
Sixen specifically wrote, and I quote:
As I said in my own post, I'm a d2jsp user, and I know for a fact that it is not shady, and it is quite a legit way to trade items on Diablo 2. I use it quite often actually.
Afterwards, the FAQ specifically says:
<<quote>>
Q: How is the transaction fee determined?A: A nominal fixed transaction fee will be deducted from the seller for each item listed in the auction house. This fee consists of a fixed charge to list the item, which is assessed whether or not the item is successfully sold, and an additional fixed charge that is assessed only if the item is sold. Because the listing portion of the fee is charged even if the item doesn’t sell, it will be in the seller’s interest to list items he or she believes other players will be interested in, and to do so at a competitive price. Specific details related to the transaction fee for the currency-based auction house will vary by region and will be announced at a later date.
Please note that we plan to waive the listing portion of the fee for a limited number of transactions per account. In other words, for these transactions, the seller will only pay a transaction fee if the item is successfully sold, and that fee will not include the listing charge. We’ll have further details on this as well at a later date. <</quote>>
This "Nominal fixed fee" is charged TWICE. Not once, but TWICE. Let's agree that the price you'll display on that Auction house will be deducted by a large amount. There is no way that Blizzard will let you keep the majority of your money while you are using their service.
@deleted_4934777: Go
You're making blind assumptions. You shouldn't do that.
They could charge you a few cents per transaction and still make millions. They don't need to charge a large fee.
For anyone who wishes more insight into the AH, I suggest reading The Auction House Explained @ Diablo Fans.
Retarded. I don't like it, at all.
But I'm even more disgusted at the no-offline (using SC2 model should be fine, why don't you?) and at the dumbed down interface. That flag it uses for achievements is retarded. Give ingame items if you want visuals, but I still want my SC2-esque menu.
Also, this. If Torchlight 2 is released around D3 times, screw D3 (Torchlight will have an editor).