1.0.3 Coming Changes

[FireIceTalon]

Blizz WANTS it to be this way though - they want people to be forced to use the AH, because it will increase their profit margins. Inferno drops and difficulty are systematically in place as they are to reduce your farming rate, both for gold and items, so you will eventually - yes, you guessed it - be forced to use the RMAH. If you want better items and to beat Inferno at least.

So no, I am quite rational and logical here, because I see the system for what it really is. I'm sorry if you dont.

I'm not quite ready to bust out the tin foil hat yet, sorry. Too many people have already had success in Inferno LESS THAN A MONTH after release. I haven't even made it to Hell yet but I fully expect even that to make me cry and gnash my teeth all while cursing Blizzard. Then I'll calm down and methodically progress like others have already done.

Gold sinks will change the system very little if at all. Are the super expensive items selling in the AH currently? Probably not - but that doesn't mean prices are going to come down. The only people buying stuff in the millions are other wealthy players. Adding gold sinks will do nothing but make the poor players even poorer - while having virtually no effect on the rich ones. The whole system is one giant monopoly.

And yes, I'm about as Capitalist as Hitler was a human rights activist. Oh wait....

So now I'm supposed to believe there's a secret society of wealthy players that somehow accrue massive wealth without incurring any of the gameplay gold penalties other players experience? Of course, if they're not selling items at those ridiculous prices to anyone outside of their club, how are they accruing the wealth again? And if they are selling those items to players outside the club... then that means it's possible to make that much money effectively?

I think your theory is starting to take on water. Better bail faster, bud.

According to the last report from Blizzard, less than 2% of the entire D3 population has even unlocked Inferno, much less actually beat it. Might want to re-think that statement that "too many people have been successful in Inferno"......

The wealth was pre accrued: Most of the "wealthy" players were those who ran through the game early on that took advantage of chest exploits and skill bugs before the nerfs came. To not believe there is a tiny % of the D3 population that did this early on and thus now control the AH economy is not only naive, but flat out incorrect. This has all been long confirmed - and the current conditions are really self evidence of this.