Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[gekko]

However, if we are trying to find out if "good" items drop less over time, we must not count high durability items as "good" items.

What's a "good" item? As has already been mentioned, a 450% ED rare collossus blade with 30% IAS and normal durability is a heckuvalot better than a hellplague from a user standpoint, but from a purely mathematical MF standpoint, the hellplauge is "better" quality.

We could also suggest that blizzard employs a bunch of teenagers they have locked underground who decide what item drops for every single monster killed in every game on every server. In theory, it *could* be done. It doesn't make any logical sense, but it could be done.

Your theory is much the same. While it could indeed happen (and frankly, it's much more likely than my supposed "chained up teenagers"), it doesn't make any sense. Why would blizzard implement a realm only bit of code designed in such a roundabout way? If they truly wanted to render boss runs less effective, there are many very simple ways to do this -- the MF multiplier that has been mentioned being the most obvious.

The idea that it is not intentional but rather a simple error in the RNG is even more confusing -- why would blizzard use a different RNG in the multiplayer version of the game than in the single player?

gekko