1.0.3 Coming Changes

[Trevan]

4) Gambling - so long as there's stuff worth gambling for. It mostly worked in D2, pre-expansion. Although it still wasn't good enough, as gold was almost never used as player currency.

I feel the need to mention that crafting is essentially gambling.

Gambling that is more limited by the materials required than by gold, and therefore not a very good gold sink.

I disagree. Materials encourage auction house usage, which encourage eating a 15% auction house sell penalty.

Honestly, gambling would have the same problem that crafting now has. Why gamble/craft when you can more easily (and for probably less money) buy the item you want off the auction hall? That, in my opinion, is the key problem behind the gambling/crafting mechanic. Gambling would be as unused as crafting is now.

I'm not trying to be some super negative "nothing will work!" person, but I think making crafting far more enticing would help as a goldsink more than just adding gambling would.