1.0.3 Coming Changes

[MongoJerry]

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.

Agreed on the need to make crafting a better option rather than add pure gambling. However, when one asks why would someone craft items instead of buying something off the auction house, one needs to consider the case after the RMAH comes into play and when the game economy gets settled in with a large population of players able to farm the later acts of Inferno. In that case, how do you give yourself a chance to get the very best items in the game. Assuming that some of the crafting items can give you the best items in the game (with very lucky rolls), that might be the only way you can get one other than by buying one the RMAH, which a lot of players won't want to do. Conversely, how do you find a top item that you can sell on the RMAH for real money? Craft as many items as you can and hope you can hit the jackpot. And all the while, the crafting goldsink will be sucking up gold and items turned into crafting materials.

Of course, this means that crafting recipes need to be able to create items that have the potential to be that good.