Just when I thought that would be the worst issue to overcome, I went back to town to repair my equipment. The usual cost of repair was increased by over seven times. Suddenly I am faced with repair costs of over fifty thousand gold.
At first it didn't seem like that big of a deal. I had well over a million gold at this time so fifty thousand felt like nothing. Until the second repair happened. Then the third.
It was at this point that I sat back in my chair and really took a look at what was going on. Why would Blizzard make these repairs so much higher than before? I took a massive bite out of my homemade stromboli from the night before (that's what she said), and that's when it hit me...
Blizzard is full of greedy assholes.
It's simple really: increase the amount to repair equipment, increase the need to spend real money in the "Real Money Auction House". We are no longer able to afford weapons with in-game gold. Players across the globe are now forced to make a decision - spend real money or stop advancing in the game.
Repairing your equipment in Diablo III is something that needs to be done fairly often. It's absolutely impossible to continue playing the game without repairing. It's almost impossible to play through the more challenging difficulties without the best weapons/armor available.
Blizzard, being as greedy as they are, unfortunately aren't stupid. They saw this as a way to build revenue and capitalized. I would imagine the meeting went something like this:
Gary: "Hey Jim"
Jim: "Yeah?"
Gary: "I have an idea"
Jim: "Oh yeah Gary?"
Gary: "Yeah Jim - let's increase repair cost, eliminating any extra in-game gold players have"
Jim: "Why?"
Gary: "Simple math Jim. The less gold players have, the more real money they'll need to spend on equipment!"
Jim: "Gary, you're brilliant. Kiss me you bronze Prince"
Gary: "Only with tongue Jim. Only with tongue"
The solution to the problem? There isn't one. Other than to completely stop playing the game. Even then we have already paid $60 for a game that we don't own (online only). I suppose the only thing left to do is tip our hats to Blizzard. You have somehow completely screwed everyone over.
It's just too bad this is most likely the future of gaming.
This is infuriating. I've neglected to open my Diablo III CE because I've been hearing about all of the server issues like people getting hacked and having their items stolen, xp issues, etc. and I was hoping that 1.03 would address those and improve gameplay. BUT, again - it looks as if Blizzard is almost forcing me to stay away from ever opening my copy. At this rate, I don't think I want to get involved in this game, and I might just say f*** it and wait for Torchlight II. SO disheartening.
ReplyDeletePlease follow your solution and stop playing, and while you are at it, stop posting invalid opinions without doing research and finding facts first please, thanks!
ReplyDeleteAnother reason the internet has just proven that anyone can waste space and time to post something without any importance. You have made one of two points clear. You are either a complete newbie that doesn't know the first thing about Diablo and for some reason are unable to use the internet beyond your little blog to read and learn research and discover that this was a result of people exploiting the game and luring mobs about and willingly dying in inferno mode to get past monsters they didn't want to fight, thus not playing the game blizzard intended. So, they added a fear/reason to not want to die. Or, you simply like starting crap on the internet to get hits by fellow gamers, thus proving what a troll you really are.
While I admit I have fallen for the second one, i can't help but post what A wasteful article this is. You are clearly not a player of Diablo 2, or you would have known that in D2, when you died, you could lose up to 20% of your gold, and XP and still have to repair, yet no on complained. This game, you lose 2-5k, which is nothing when in inferno mode you can easily make 100k an hour. They are not forcing you to do anything, but learn to play the game and not die, is that so hard? Instead you like to point fingers and scream "omg, they are bad people, LOOK LOOK what they are doing" instead of maybe reading about is first.
Do us all a favor and please read this first.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6262208/Patch_103_Design_Preview-6_6_2012
Explain how my (or any) opinion is invalid please. It's an opinion.
DeleteAlso, this is absolutely causing the issue I have written about. Yes, the patch notes claim its to even it out. Make it more difficult. However, it now plays like Dungeon Hunter for the iPad. In order to buy the best, we have to spend real money. Plain and simple.
I have beaten Inferno before the patch and only died a few times. I still found myself repairing often. I am also halfway through Hardcore mode. Do yourself a favor and do some research of your own. Open your eyes, you're being blindly lead.
If you honestly believe this isn't for Blizzard to make money, then you're naive beyond all reason. Sure it's to make it more challenging, but it also forces us to use the real money auction house. Plain and simple.
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Deleteonly LUCKY idiots can easily make 100k per hour and then only PURE IDIOTS would contribute to their easy profit
DeleteI don't think you HAVE to spend real money to be able to afford repair costs. In that article it says you can get tips from hardcore players in order to alter how you play the game. ( Just think someone killed Diablo in hard core mode, and never died once. )
ReplyDeleteI've also heard of people shifting down a few acts or a difficulty to farm money or items. You don't HAVE to spend real money. It just seems the easiest path for you.