Looting -- The official thread for discussing the loot system. Updated 18th March, 2013.

can someone of GGG explain me why a GM muted me yesterday just for picking up stuff in a public game?

I always see people complain about "ninjaloot", but I dont quite understand how that is a problem.
Everyone has their own "countdown" until the item gets public(which I picked up).
I know that most of the people probably come from diablo 3 so they are not quite familiar with the shared loot, but cmon.

now to my problem.
I would have understanded it if they would have just kicked me from the game, even though nothing in the public game description said "NO NINJALOOTING"(which is stupid anyway).
I come from offscreen and saw an alch on the ground which I picked up, there wasnt even a counter. After that someone asked who collected the alch and I admited it, I didnt felt like I did something wrong so I told them. I didnt insult anyone, just picked up the alch. Next thing I know is that Iam muted for 2 days and cant create nor join public games.


Can someone of GGG explain me why picking up items online is punisht with a mute, I dont get it. If you guys dont want a shared loot than make it like in diablo 3, so I dont get muted everytime I play in a public game.

great game anyway.

good day.

The only thing i experience in randoms is frustration when the marauder takes all the Int and Dex gear with a full group of rangers and witches.

What i do now/or don't do:

-When i played in a group i only picked up items that were relevant to my build
-I don't play with others anymore, still fun even as a single player game
-I don't buy/trade gear from others because it was most likely attained through less than respectable methods(poor gamer etiquette)
-I play this game for the character development, progression, and to play with other people(ffa makes it pure frustration)

I want to PLAY with other people, I don't want to watch the bow ranger take the melee stuff. lol its ridiculous.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

Play with friends, FRIENDS. If you play with randoms then there will and should be that chance that they will undermine you for there own benefit.

then why play PoE and not a single player?
What if my friends see PoE and laugh at me when they see me playing?


and in the end why they force me to play solo/only friends and not change this loot system that seriously belongs at 1990 ? You know wolrd evolved from back then.....

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Zulgohlan wrote:

you ignore the only step D3 made forward xP

pretty much. but there are some peoples that think because d3 sucked in general and they think that whatever d3 has is crap....

the only thing d3 made right and ALL ARPGs must follow it is (innovation if you like it)

Instanced Loot.

end of story.

it doesnt' matter if you like it or not, it is an innovation for the genre and failing to implent it is like taking a shoot in your OWN leg.

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killbilly wrote:

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

Play with friends, FRIENDS. If you play with randoms then there will and should be that chance that they will undermine you for there own benefit.

And in the end why they force me to play solo/only friends and not change this loot system that seriously belongs at 1990 ? You know wolrd evolved from back then.....

This isn't "YOUR" game. Get over yourself.




What part of FFA loot system don't you understand? You can mock it and call it a 1990s loot system and mock the devs by saying the world has evolved.

But it doesn't really matter what you think because its not your game. Is it?


Do the devs a favour. Go play alone and stop complaining about a great FFA game. You seem to talk about being 'forced' to play alone. Then please... Force yourself stop complaining. :D

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Vooodu wrote:

This isn't "YOUR" game. Get over yourself.

Neither yours. Get under yourself.

I don't understand why people want to play with other people, but not play with other people anyway.

The next mobutu and killbilly will ask for, is instanced rare monsters. Then instanced bosses. Then personal only zones. What we are left with, is a chat-system.

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You know wolrd evolved from back then

Most ridiculous thing I've read in these forums :p

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Zyrusticae wrote:

So it's a GOOD thing if players are at each other's throats all the time because of ninja looting?

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Its not ninja looting.



Also, everyone is not at each others throats. Its all in you head.

Just like all the whiners who complain about being forced to play solo. Its all in their heads. No ones forcing anyone. Its all mental.


When players with these issues join public games, thats when the actual problem begins.


Im actually starting to find them rather funny now.

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Twiiik wrote:

The next mobutu and killbilly will ask for, is instanced rare monsters. Then instanced bosses. Then personal only zones. What we are left with, is a chat-system.

You could have gone deeper than that, deviating from the real problem.
Don't be pathetic, nobody asked for those shitty ramblings of yours.

This thread is getting more hostile and unpleasant by the page. Why doesn't a moderator close this thread. After two years of discussion GGG must have a good idea of the feelings about FFA.

Please, close this thread!