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

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Pinchyskree wrote:

A loot distribution system setup does not make you more hardcore.

It does.

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Dishonor wrote:

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Pinchyskree wrote:

A loot distribution system setup does not make you more hardcore.

It does.

Spoiler

The more and faster you click, the more hardcore you are. You would understand, if you would play today games.

Sounds like my 15 year old on his X-box, you can keep your damn hardcore :P

I kinda liked rolling for items aka Need before Greed in WoW.

Imagine if wow's loot was FFA haha

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thehhwy wrote:

I kinda liked rolling for items aka Need before Greed in WoW.

Imagine if wow's loot was FFA haha

Clearly you didn't play MMOs before World of Warcraft :)

EDIT: Nothing wrong with being young, or new to gaming, I just found it humorous that you made it sound like it was some completely outlandish concept when it was, in fact, the reality of online games for many years :)

Well, there's really one good argument..the devs wanted it this way...and the CB members liked it.

The timer WAS in CB, that's what people liked..so apparently, not only the devs thought this was fun right?
And they're not really forcing anything, it's still your choice to play the game?

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raz0r_boy wrote:

...the CB members liked it.

Definitely not all of them, I was in closed beta for more than a year and didnt liked it.

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raz0r_boy wrote:

The timer WAS in CB...

Indeed, but originally there were no timers, just pure ffa.

You're absolutely right, a lot of members disagreed with FFA, that's why the timer is there now..
For me personally, i love the timer fix, it gives the game an additional challenge, that is for me personally..
I would however agree to that the targeting of the loot i.e misclicks etc, needs to be further worked on, maybe made so that it's enought to click inside the box for the char to grab that loot.

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raz0r_boy wrote:

Well, there's really one good argument..the devs wanted it this way...and the CB members liked it.

Who are you to say the CB members liked it. I didn't and don't like it.
This thread is over 2 years old. If everyone liked it so much it wouldn't be this old and this active.

In general GGG listens very good to their players, but in this case they are very stubborn and let their own principles exceed over the wishes of their clients. They want to keep that cutthroat feeling in the game. Aaaaaah, come on. There is no cutthroat feeling in this game. Yeah, perhaps in the first few minutes, hours, days of playing, but once you played multiple characters through the different acts and it just starts to be an ARPG grindfest, it lost all of it and you do not get that feeling back by keeping some archaic FFA-loot mechanism in muliplay.

Well, i'm a cb member, and i liked it, amongst others..I did however not say that EVERYONE liked it, wich, as i said, is why we have a timer today.
It's a grindfest game, as are many others arpg games...it's kind of what they are.
I'm not taking away anyones opinion however, if you don't like it that up to you or hoever it may concern.