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THM
Bulgaria1131 Posts
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/2d8uvy/i_made_about_100_000_euro_from_diablo_3_in/ What do you guys think? I think the story is pretty cool and I guess I can only say congratulations for creating a working system and profiting from it. It's Auction House botting by the way. Oh, also the guy is from my country, lol. | ||
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LtCalley
United States244 Posts
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
Pretty disgusting someone did it on such a huge scale lol. | ||
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THM
Bulgaria1131 Posts
On August 12 2014 07:25 LtCalley wrote: while this is impressive, i still think if you knew about the wizard god-mode bug from day 1 you could have easily made that much in the time in which the wizard bug still worked (3 months?) Maybe, but do you mean make that by playing 24/7 for weeks? Or using bots that can utilize the bug? | ||
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fezvez
France3021 Posts
Anyways, I know it's because of little shit like him that the game had an AH problem, but it's just Blizzard's fault in the end. They just needed to prevent people from querying the AH 24/7 and prevent people from botting gold 24/7. Honestly, I have little trouble toward the botters who farm items 24/7 because it just floods the market with good items. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
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Shottaz
United Kingdom414 Posts
On August 13 2014 23:05 LaNague wrote: you are applauding the type of people who ruin online games for everyone. Meh, this guy didn't really ruin the game for other people. He bought and sold legitimate items using scripts. | ||
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Nekovivie
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On August 16 2014 00:07 Shottaz wrote: Meh, this guy didn't really ruin the game for other people. He bought and sold legitimate items using scripts. So he botted the AH, which ruined the game for the legit players. He even says in his article, it made it impossible for a legitimate player to grab a good deal as a bot would already buy it in 0.05 sec. I don't know of a world where botting doesn't ruin the game for others. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On August 18 2014 23:16 Nekovivie wrote: So he botted the AH, which ruined the game for the legit players. He even says in his article, it made it impossible for a legitimate player to grab a good deal as a bot would already buy it in 0.05 sec. I don't know of a world where botting doesn't ruin the game for others. It's impossible to grab a great deal from buyout. With his bot, it'd still be possible to get decent deals (a bit below market value) for buyout, or great deals with bidding. He just went after the great buyout deals. Maybe there are other bots going after decent deals as well, and maybe even auctions, what do I know. I do know that it was way more profitable to play the AH than to play the game, even if you do only manual flipping. I don't think the AH botting ruined the game, it just made it harder to play the auction house without bots. Without bots like that, it'd be even mor eprofitable to play the AH instead of playing the game, so in a way we should thank him for making it relatively more worthwile to actually play.  What DID ruin the game (according to people that wanted to play the game) was the easy with which you could buy and sell on the AH, and the number of people playing. That, together with the decay of gold (the 15% fee that vaporised with every transaction) and the non-decay of items constantly drop in price comapred to gold. Thus, after a few months of playing, the most valuable loot you got when playing would be the gold, as the market was flooded with all items since release. And to translate the gold into character power, you had to go to the AH, or your char would be crappy. Or that is how I see it. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
Congratulations to them, by no means do I think he destroyed the game... I'd rather an AH bot gets all these items, rather than some players doing nothing with their lives but looking through the action house 10 hours a day to find one good item here and there. | ||
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
Or the dozen or so duping methods.... | ||
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aseq
Netherlands3997 Posts
- Killing one boss or levelling up or finishing a quest would give you 1 AH ticket (to buy something). - Items would lose a set % of their attributes every time they're resold. - You can only refresh the AH so many times per day. - etc, etc. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
2) I like this idea, and it is in the same spirit as my old idea of allowing only a limited number of trades (one or two) on each item. It'd allow trading, but not as rampant as it was, and not too easy to make a profit as each trade makes the item less valuable. A compromise between before and how it is now. 3) don't think you could find a rate that wouldn't be annoying for real players, but sufficiently restricting for bots. Having a generous limit wouldn't hurt though, and would make the bots be slightly more careful with the refresh spamming. 4) may be gold here! Actually the more I think about it, allowing only a single trade on each item, with the ah, would solve a lot of problems. Flipping would be impossible, and buying anything would have to be with gold you earned yourself. The only way to get a lot of gold would be to find a great item and sell it, but even then there won't be a lot of rich traders around that can buy your godly item for billions. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
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Valiver
Caldeum1977 Posts
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
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SF-Fork
Russian Federation1401 Posts
D3 was ruined for me the moment I used the auction house to gear up. Not some people buying and selling on it on a massive scale. | ||
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