05-30-2012, 07:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-30-2012, 07:50 AM by FireIceTalon.)
(05-30-2012, 04:51 AM)Concillian Wrote: Someone has to be generating the items though. Not everyone is going to be able to sit there and wait for the items to show up on the AH.
Any "professional" farmers will be using the RMAH. If what is listed in the OP happens, then the GAH items will simply dry up, leaving people unable to play the GAH anymore. Ultimately supply and demand will keep a balance of people spending time item hunting and people spending time GAH hunting. Ultimately gold will end up with a valuation approximating the amount of time, on average, it takes to find a really great rare item. Inflation will happen since gold is plentiful, but gold will still be leaving the system.
- a 15% tax on auctioning is a substantial amount
- many of the crafted set items look to be worth crafting
- the really high level gems look to take very significant amounts of gold out of the system as well, and there's no other source for anything comparable.
Right, but the game has sold almost 7 million thus far - The AH items are coming from a small portion of that number who used exploits, rushed the content, etc - and most likely before all the nerfs and hot fixes took place. So as a result, you have a very small minority who have a monopoly on the game's economy and can charge virtually whatever they want for any Rare or Legendary items. Ah, good ol' Crapitalism showing its face on Diablo now, LOL.
As far as crafting goes, yea the crafting sets may be worth it, but your smithy has to be level 10 for that, and training the blacksmith is waaaaay too expensive when you will need to invest in the AH to really be sure you are going to upgrade your char. Perhaps when you are sitting on a million+ gold, training the blacksmith to 10 will be worth it, but before then, I wouldn't even bother.
Also, the jeweler charges a ridiculous amount for creating higher level gems - you can buy them much cheaper on, yea you guessed it, the AH. I mean 50k to craft 1 Radiant Square jewel is outrageous.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)