I mean I'm serious, trading money for time and vice versa is completely standard in almost all aspects of life. It makes sense it would transfer into gaming as well. People are always going to do this. If you're rich enough you won't care about its legality. Destroy the gold selling sites? What the RMAH accomplished was destroying the game. Of course, I told them that the notion that Blizzard should allow players to buy items for real money by legalizing and facilitating it because players were going to do it anyway is stupid because their dumb argument would imply that Blizzard should allow players to buy bots for real money by legalizing and facilitating it: Blizzard should sell honor farming bots.
People clearly want honor farming bots considering how popular they are. And they can make a buck by selling them, instead of forcing players to go through shady 3rd party sites to get their hands on these bots. They couldn't. They were not smart enough to think of a response. They had no response at all. You're being downright irrational. Analysis: It's terrible how many people are QQ'ing about this feature. It won't affect your gameplay in any way.
At all. It's an optional feature.. Do I really have to say more? Even Blizzard has now rejected this completely wrong argument. When we initially designed and implemented the auction houses, the driving goal was to provide a convenient and secure system for trades. I don't get what's so hard to understand. Consider the following 2 questions: 1. Why play D3? In order to ask question 2, you must first ask question 1.
The answer to question 1 is, there is no reason to play D3. The game is pointless. Therefore, question 2 is moot and irrelevant. Question 2 doesn't matter, because there's no reason to play in the first place. To see why the answer to question 1 is that the game is pointless, consider what the point of D3 ultimately is. To make a character with good gear? Why bother, you can just buy the best gear with real money. To farm for good gear?
Why bother, you can just buy it for real money. To collect good gear? Again, anyone can buy the best gear for real money. What is the point of gear? Is the point of the game to beat people in PvP? There's no PvP, but if there was, again people who buy the best gear would win. Every possible reason to play D3 is defeated by the point that anyone can buy the best gear off the RMAH.
Therefore, there's no reason to play the game in the first place, and hence no reason to ask question 2. The game is pointless, it would be a waste of my time to play such a pointless game, so I don't. We should just trust them on that? But a few months later they'll pick it up hypocrites that they are when they see that all their predictions about the AH destroying the game was just them being Chicken Little.
They are a company. They were always in it to make money in some form or another. They are trying something new and it will probably work. It destroyed the game so badly that now even Blizzard has admitted their mistake and flipped-flop on the RMAH in an attempt to fix their mess. There is no point in playing the game because of the RMAH. Why play? To make the best character? All you need to do is to buy the best available items off the RMAH. To collect the best gear? You can just buy it off the RMAH.
To trade with others? The only trading is buying things off the AH. To PvP? Every reason to play the game is killed by the RMAH. There's no point in playing. And I don't play pointless games. Supply and demand were virtually non-existent for gear and armor before the introduction of the RMAH, at least to most players. The large majority would play the game normally, find drops of varying levels of rarity, and perhaps upgrade their gear and armor from time to time. However, the RMAH removed that need to occasionally find the right item for an upgrade.
Now, one simply needed to click on the RMAH tab and add the proper search parameters. Within a moment, one could find the perfect upgrade and see its price in gold or real money. A few more clicks and the transaction was complete. The problem of course, was that this completely bypassed playing the game and finding loot for oneself in the traditional way.
Blizzard would later affirm that many players were spending too much time trading on the RMAH instead of playing the actual game. In a sense, the RMAH was too successful, but unfortunately it drew a focus away from the core gameplay mechanics. Particularly patient traders could become the most powerful of characters in the game without actually doing any fighting. So long as they were watching closely, buying low and selling high, there was no need to play the game, but they could still have the best items.
When the RMAH shut down, there were certainly players upset at the massive shift away from the model that Blizzard had so strongly embraced at the launch of the game, but the game was healthier for it, at least for a while.
The idea of enabling some manner of free market economy in video games is not new, and some have done it quite well. In the recent race for a world first raid clear, top guilds Limit and Method revealed that they borrowed upwards of million gold and cleared out the auction houses of three separate servers to have an edge over other guilds.
For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. A new honest look at the RMAH. Thread starter tommerbob Start date Aug 6, Net Member. In fact, I canceled my Wow-subscription because of it. My point is that I understand very well the perspective of those who oppose this new system.
But as I have learned more about the basic mechanics of how the RMAH will work, my perspective has changed. My goal here is not to give yet another argument for or against it.
I am simply sharing how my perspective changed, hopefully without talking into the wind. The RMAH uses real money. Okay so I was misinformed about this part. I'm not sure how many other opponents thought that, but I want to clear this up, this is not true. You can use the RMAH without spending a dime! How does it work? You will be charge extra fees when withdrawing money from the game this way.
B Your battle. If the funds go here, you cannot withdraw that money at a later time! That money is permanently attached to your battle. The important thing here is that these two options are not interchangeable.
You must pick one or the other. This is good thing! Because those of us who don't want to use real money in trading, don't have to! You don't have to sit there and think, "I'm not sure if I should buy this item or go out to pizza tonight. The money in your battle. Many supporters of the RMAH use the argument that Blizzard will only break even or make little profit from this system, so therefore they aren't doing it for the money.
This is simply not true. Blizzard will make significant profits from this system. Is that a bad thing? Yes and no. A It's a bad thing because Blizzard is essentially milking money without doing anything to earn it.
With this system being automated with probably low maintenance costs, Blizzard is doing practically nothing and still earning money. From a business standpoint, its brilliant. From a game developers perspective, well they still have to produce quality results in the long run to succeed.
B It's a good thing because in reality, the only money that Blizzard makes from this system is from people who actually spend real money trading. That excludes myself and plenty of other people who will not link their paypal accounts to the game.
That's because there's no real money circulating in the RMAH until a player actually puts it there. You can't buy an item until someone else has found it. Opponents to the RMAH will often use the argument that they don't like the idea that players can just buy their gear without any reward. I myself have used this argument.
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