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After reading through the previous suggestions, I'll add my points as well.
I don't believe a WoW-like auction system can be implemented properly, because of the lack of a general currency. If it uses the currency items, the problem is people value currency items differently, and it leaves out the bartering feel of trading, which was mentioned officialy somewhere before. If we only have the trade chat and forums, it will just end up being an autospammed textflow, which is neither very seller, nor buyer-friendly. I would propose an "advertisement" system instead. Traders could list their items, and fill out a field what they are looking for in turn. At the simplest, the latter could be a textfield, but to ease filtering, a keyword system would be better. Someone looking for items could query items and filter this database with (key)words, and once he picked something, he could contact the seller, either in whisper, or mail (If the game will have that). The trading itself could be arranged in a meet, or a distance-trading option can be made as well, if the devs want to do so. One extra step would be a free bidding system, where people could list their bids as any item(s). Then it's the seller's choice to pick from the bids. This way, it doesn't need both players online to finish the trade. |
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" I like the idea of the advertisement board, except I would also like to advertise other things, like leveling groups, quotes of the day, etc. |
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" Sure, but, for them that does not have time due to work and such and still want to play the game and NOT spend all their time playing to aquire them good items that require much effort. That problem would be soloved by that kind of auction house. In my case, i am a sickpensioner in age of 32 due to ADD and Asperger Syndrome and i WILL play the game with or without an auction house, but i would love to make some money while having fun and that is one of the reasons why i would like an auction house that will be in Diablo 3, another reason is to let others have a fair chance to lay their hands on some quality items and earn some ingame gold too in the process... and yes, there will be a solution of both ingame currency and real money in Diablo 3. I hope they will consider my suggestion of an auction house like they working on in Diablo 3. //Taurus1979
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And still, if you don't want to use the auction house to get them top gear, you does not need too.
You can play and sell for ingame money as well as tading directly with players for other nice items. The choice is yours to make, if you like to use or not. But i see how you think, them "gankers" would love a such idea as an real money auction house so they can get as twink-gear as possible in notime to get going with their killing as soon as possible. That problem will never stop to exist ever. Sure that is quite a problem and i can agree with that, but they get nothing out of it more then one more disshonorable kill and some false self confidence, they think they are good but it is the characters gear that is good, not themselves. //Taurus1979 ---------------- CPU: Intel i9-14900KF. GPU: RTX 3080 Aorus Master. MEM: 32GB, 5600MHz, DDR5. Last edited by Taurus1979#7855 on Aug 9, 2011, 8:39:52 AM
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" First off, sorry for my bad english, it is my dyslexia that makes it a problem for me, but i hope you will understand me well enough. Not to the matter... Well, it depends on how much your playing and are willing to wait to gain top-money on a game as it allows you to gain. In my case, as i said before i am a sickpensioner who got all the time in this world to play and do such tings, yes it is abit unfair, but life is unfair. Anyway i can play...let say 16h a day, slashing and looting good stuff that can fetch a good price at the auction house but it depends to the amount and prices set on them items that is already for sale. But then i can wait for the right moment, all i can sell is a bonus and money at the bank for me while i am enjoy a good game with others. So i think, many would like to have that opportunity to make some extra money while having a plessant time, as well as the game developers gains a fair deal of procentage of each transaction made as the devlopemnt team behind Diablo 3 will. Don't you think it would be a good solution to keep the game alive and possible expansions and such that is covered by players that buy and sell stuff in an auction house with real money? I sure think so and many with me for sure. //Taurus1979 ---------------- CPU: Intel i9-14900KF. GPU: RTX 3080 Aorus Master. MEM: 32GB, 5600MHz, DDR5. Last edited by Taurus1979#7855 on Aug 9, 2011, 8:31:06 AM
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" I think your idea is good, but confusing... the most people that plays online games and such is commonly known by Auction houses and NPCs, the solution you came up with is not bad at all, but IS new to the people, and people are very easily confused these days. But that is up to the dev-team to deside. All Suggestions are good so keep them stacking up. //Taurus1979
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An auction with real money (like Diablo III) will be really addictive. In addition it will replace the annoying micro payments siystem to buy items or a cool hairstyle.
Last edited by Destello#1944 on Aug 9, 2011, 9:31:46 AM
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Taurus please...I don't think youre getting the point at all...theres plenty of people who want to PLAY THE GAME and have it nothing to do WITH THEIR MONEY. Simple as that.
This "I want the shiny stuff now and I don't want to earn it" is pure childish. Its the WoW philosophy: if youre not "endgame" and maxxxxxed out youre useless. A lot of people need to simply learn to play the game! Not as in L2P, but as in learn to have fun while PLAYING! Now how much worth is any achievment when the alternative price of it is something like a few bucks and cheating to get it isn't event considered something bad? Right, its worth nothing. Now why would I want to play a game where my achievments are worth nothing? Right, I don't want to. And I'm not alone like that. Best of luck with your business plan, but games for me is FUN and not BUSINESS. And theres even more people like that. We can only be happy GGG aren't taking the Blizzard's path. Theyre making COMPETITIVE game (having RMAH completely takes the competitiveness out of an ARPG - that alone makes it a bad thing) as opposed to a game where those who spend more are more powerful...guess which one I'll choose. I won't even go into PvP (where the RMAH becomes even more OPTIONAL? Yeah..)... P.S. And when did PoE Auction thread turn into RMAH discussion? Theres already plenty of that. Last edited by nermind#6181 on Aug 9, 2011, 10:22:55 AM
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" I think this is a good statement, because i know how i will act if there is a easy way to gain "fitting" loot, be it RealMoney or a fast item-swap. To cross the border (search for a website which offered these fast items) back in the d2-days, was greater than klicking Exit ingame. Because it wasnt fun to surf that long to find a fitting one. And of course, i bought 2-4 cheap items on ebay, but it got boring to do so. I enjoyed trading with other players, hopping from one game to the other, had a little chat with them, and some got invited to my circle of farmingfriends. Now a anonymos AH would only force me to check every some minutes if there is new loot availible, minutes where im not playing the game. The other Thing is: These Auctionhouses are always full of crap loot, the really good items that shine are often braodcasted manually becouse else noone would find them in that AH. What about a restricion like , you can only put 1 item up per account for a weekly duration ? +VLFBERHT+
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Earlier someone mentioned a specific specialization of classes were the only ones that could sell stuff on a marketplace.
If the last class is at all related to mercantile, I think this dynamic would work out very well. RMAH has no business being in any game, ever. |
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