Blizzard closes down Diablo 3 Auction House

Originally Posted by Darkith

I hate sounding like a fanboy but these guys really need to hire Kripparrian. All they do it steal his ideas on how to improve the game. Not even three weeks ago Kripparrian was talking about how he made his D3 experience much better by NOT using the AH and now Bliizzard make this announcement... (of course getting rid of the AH has been in the works for a LONG time but the core idea of not using the AH has been Kripparrian's ideology since the game came out).

Same thing happened when Kripparrian said D3 without a ladder system will need to have something to grind/reward players and he recommended Champion levels. And what does Blizzard announce a month later? Paragon Levels...

Yeah, no.

1. A lot of people have suggested removing the AH. From before the game even launched, actually.
2. A lot of people suggested a ladder system.

Kripparrian is a good guy, but he's not a god.

YES!!!!

Finally, Blizz!! Finally I can start restoring my faith in you.

Hmm, seems Blizzard is still capable of thinking without their wallet in their hands after all...

OMG

THIS IS AMAZING

I'm gonna pre-order 10 copies of the expansion just to show Blizzard how happy this makes me! Think of it as a gesture of good will, Blizzard! Now take my money! Take all of it!

Weeeee!

Originally Posted by Yalingo

Now just get rid of this always online crap and I'll buy the xpac

That's actually a point I didn't think of - suppose they could now, right? It shows I haven't played in a while ^^

I hate sounding like a fanboy but these guys really need to hire Kripparrian. All they do it steal his ideas on how to improve the game. Not even three weeks ago Kripparrian was talking about how he made his D3 experience much better by NOT using the AH and now Bliizzard make this announcement... (of course getting rid of the AH has been in the works for a LONG time but the core idea of not using the AH has been Kripparrian's ideology since the game came out).

Same thing happened when Kripparrian said D3 without a ladder system will need to have something to grind/reward players and he recommended Champion levels. And what does Blizzard announce a month later? Paragon Levels...

I cannot find the bluepost atm, but they mentioned before that they are testing the console version to see how the game works without the auction house, that wastwo months ago ago. They said they may remove the AH if it works well.

You all whiny kids will soon realise that both ah and rmah was a good thing. I cant believe blizz will shut it down.

So basicly now they are going to create the diablo3 that should have bin ?

Hmm, seems Blizzard is still capable of thinking without their wallet in their hands after all...

Doubt it...look out for D3 items in Blizzard's store...not sure whether to laugh or cry. This is not an altruistic action.... From a buisness standpoint - why maintain a complex feature that probably does not bring anywhere near as much revenue as an average cash shop, that can be implemented cross platform? Less headache, easy profit.

Originally Posted by Netherspark

If it weren't for the AH, I wouldn't have bothered going past (or even into) Nightmare mode.

Somehow the endless and repetitive grinding just to get enough gear to repeat the entire game again just seems... unattractive.

Quoted for truth. Inferno was terrible. Act II was a pain in the ass and act III just totally took the fun out of the game and made me stop for 6 months. Then I finally tried to buy some gear from the AH and I was able to finish all of Inferno that same day and I had fun again with the game. Especially with the MP system, it was nice to be able to choose a difficulty that felt good.

Another thing : what about all those patterns? Without the AH I would have like 2 pattern drops so far, but thanks to the AH I have almost all of the patterns in the game. Good luck trying to grind for all those patterns yourself.

Such a stupid stupid decision.

Originally Posted by Silverspark

Quoted for truth. Inferno was terrible. Act II was a pain in the ass and act III just totally took the fun out of the game and made me stop for 6 months. Then I finally tried to buy some gear from the AH and I was able to finish all of Inferno that same day and I had fun again with the game. Especially with the MP system, it was nice to be able to choose a difficulty that felt good.

Another thing : what about all those patterns? Without the AH I would have like 2 pattern drops so far, but thanks to the AH I have almost all of the patterns in the game. Good luck trying to grind for all those patterns yourself.

Such a stupid stupid decision.

First of all, if loot grinding isn't for you, then D3 isn't for you. Actually the entire dungeon crawling action rpg genre isn't for you.

Secondly, if you watched the video or payed attention at all you would know they are completely revamping the loot system (loot 2.0), making all of your objections here moot.

Originally Posted by Voice of Reason

Diablo 3 is an ARPG. The endgame is the item find. What's the point of playing when you can get a set of gear good enough to breeze through MP10 for a few million gold on the AH? At that point you're already done. With the AH gone, you actually progress through the game by playing it. When you can progress more in 10 minutes on the AH than you can in months of game play, you have a problem.

Ever thought about all those people out there with a job and a family? People that can't spend tens of hours a week on D3? For me it was heaven to be able to play through normal, nightmare and hell and then buy gear to get through inferno. I never bought the best gear available, just gear that was good enough to let me get through MP5, so that it still proved a challenge.

It annoys me so much that so many games always favor teenagers and students and other people who have fuck all to do all day every day but sit on their ass and play games.

I tried Inferno on my main before I bought gear and it wasn't fun ... at ... all. I just drove me up the wall how hard packs of simple mobs were. It made me quit the game for 6 months. Sure I could have farmed for hundreds of hours and maybe I would have gotten a few nice items after a few months, but I'd rather play some other games as well in that time. The AH is just a useful tool for people who don't have time to farm all day to also get through the harder difficulty levels.

Boubouille is BACK!!!!

Originally Posted by Redmage

First of all, if loot grinding isn't for you, then D3 isn't for you. Actually the entire dungeon crawling action rpg genre isn't for you.

Secondly, if you watched the video or payed attention at all you would know they are completely revamping the loot system (loot 2.0), making all of your objections here moot.

I love the Diablo games. I finished Diablo I 9 times, I finished Diablo II more times than I care to remember; when I was in college I grinded Diablo II for months, so you're wrong saying the dungeon crawling action rpg genre isn't for me.

But now I'm on the other side of the spectrum. Now I'm a working familyman with little time on his hands who can't afford to grind for months for gear. Now I prefer shorter games that I can actually finish in the time that I have available and instead of grinding for loot for months, I'd much rather play a few of the unopened games that are lying here in my drawer waiting for me to find time to play them.

Originally Posted by Silverspark

Ever thought about all those people out there with a job and a family? People that can't spend tens of hours a week on D3? For me it was heaven to be able to play through normal, nightmare and hell and then buy gear to get through inferno. I never bought the best gear available, just gear that was good enough to let me get through MP5, so that it still proved a challenge.

It annoys me so much that so many games always favor teenagers and students and other people who have fuck all to do all day every day but sit on their ass and play games.

I tried Inferno on my main before I bought gear and it wasn't fun ... at ... all. I just drove me up the wall how hard packs of simple mobs were. It made me quit the game for 6 months. Sure I could have farmed for hundreds of hours and maybe I would have gotten a few nice items after a few months, but I'd rather play some other games as well in that time. The AH is just a useful tool for people who don't have time to farm all day to also get through the harder difficulty levels.

It annoys me when people think it's cool to ignore the genre of the game and basically mess up it's core, just for it to be accessible to everyone.

Loot grinding is kinda what dungeon crawler are about and you still can play it pretty fine with a job and family, the game will just last that much longer if you don't invest much time in it.

This is very good news! I wonder will they let us create games now with our own names now in order to trade? Or will they come up with other means of trading.

Originally Posted by Silverspark

Quoted for truth. Inferno was terrible. Act II was a pain in the ass and act III just totally took the fun out of the game and made me stop for 6 months. Then I finally tried to buy some gear from the AH and I was able to finish all of Inferno that same day and I had fun again with the game. Especially with the MP system, it was nice to be able to choose a difficulty that felt good.

Another thing : what about all those patterns? Without the AH I would have like 2 pattern drops so far, but thanks to the AH I have almost all of the patterns in the game. Good luck trying to grind for all those patterns yourself.

Such a stupid stupid decision.

I have nearly all patterns in game, and I've not bought a single one from the AH. You must not have played in awhile, but they greatly increased the drop chance of all patterns. Besides loot v2.0 is coming out, entirely revamping the loot. Less but better drops. The game doesn't need an AH if the loot is worthwhile like in D2.

Remember, "the loot system is not tuned around the Auction House"...

What a load of bollocks that was.

What about making it offline now?

I didn't go past the start of act 2. The story was just shit.

I cannot comprehend how they figured that out so late... After playing the game for a few hours and visiting AH just once it should be very clear.
But hell yeah it's about time.

Originally Posted by Netherspark

If it weren't for the AH, I wouldn't have bothered going past (or even into) Nightmare mode.

Somehow the endless and repetitive grinding just to get enough gear to repeat the entire game again just seems... unattractive.

Same, after 3 weeks of grinding i was finally "able" to go nightmare. Never got a reasonably good item.
Then came Act III, which was almost impossible at that time. Never found item that would sell on ah, so never could buy good stuff (cause that was too expensive).
After another month of grinding Act II i was finally able to step into Act III. (fist 3 weeks of that grind i didn't get a single upgrade, the last week i finally got lucky)