Diablo III General Discussion - Page 120

On August 01 2011 12:20 Juvant wrote:
This news is really putting a sick feeling in my stomach. It's quite early to prejudge, but the idea of paying anything for items in a game is extremely unappetizing. And I like everyone else worry that it will negate hard work, letting the wealthier people get ahead illegitimately.

On August 01 2011 12:25 Deadlyhazard wrote:

That's how Blizzard rolls nowadays...you even have to pay money for a name change on SC2 now. And of course on WoW you can buy stuff that looks really cool, whereas before they watered it down, you had to work hard to look pretty and everyone knew you were a top player if you had really cool looking stuff. I really don't doubt they'll mash this game up with microtransactions up the butt. We'll see.

"Hardcore" players often label players with this mount "noobs" and give it derisive names such as "Crack Pony" and may discriminate against those who have it. While such views do not represent all of the WoW community, players should keep this in mind when purchasing it.

On August 01 2011 12:36 Choo wrote:
Here's to hoping at least one East Coast attendee forgets NDA is PST and posts in 30 mins

On August 01 2011 12:20 Juvant wrote:
This news is really putting a sick feeling in my stomach. It's quite early to prejudge, but the idea of paying anything for items in a game is extremely unappetizing. And I like everyone else worry that it will negate hard work, letting the wealthier people get ahead illegitimately.

On August 01 2011 12:35 xajten wrote:


It'll be the way "players roll", since they will be the ones putting their items up on auction, not Blizzard. As for WoW, the stuff you can buy is purely cosmetic and hasn't helped anyone "win" at anything. The WoW gamers knows quite well what items can be bought, and what items cannot, to a point where someone with the Blizzard sold cosmetic items get laughed at, see http://www.wowpedia.org/That_Retarded_Horse

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On August 01 2011 12:46 Serpico wrote:
ughhh, blizzard went to the darkside ;__;.

On August 01 2011 12:46 Paradice wrote:
I quit WoW long before this horse was released, but from what I heard friends complaining about, it *does* provide you an in-game advantage, doesn't it? By paying real money, you get a free (in-game) 'very fast / flying' class mount for every character, which otherwise would have cost a significant amount (at the time) of in-game gold to obtain.

You could argue that that allows money in place of time only, and not skill (after all, it didn't take skill to get gold - just grinding), but, to be honest, that could easily apply to much of the Diablo experience as well.

On August 01 2011 12:57 Phayze wrote:
WoW RMT was purely cosmetic and had zero effect on gameplay. I hope this is the extent to which the D3 RMT system will work. Honestly, I would be shocked if blizzard actually took the pay to win route. They are already gouging for the game and 2 expansions like starcraft2, they are gouging for SC2 name changes, and now they want to charge you to buy epic lewtz. Honestly, what garbage.

On August 01 2011 12:55 xajten wrote:


The mount does get sent to all your characters, but it scales to the characters riding skill, so if you only have the very slowest ground mount skill, then you will only have a very slow ground mount that cannot fly, unless you purchase the associated skill(s).

Also, prior to the introduction of these cosmetic mounts they changed the price of the riding skills/mounts so that the riding skill is expensive, but the mounts are cheap, instead of the other way around like it used to be in the classic days, so a fast flying mount would be about 100g, which is just roughly 4-5 daily quests.