Not that this was a good metaphor in the first place since Teiman I think was purely talking about the house taking a cut of the profits, but…
…in blackjack, casinos have suddenly changed the rules as to whether or not the house hits on a soft 17, suddenly devaluing 18s (although, not mid-game, I guess). New, rebalanced slot machines show up all the time. I assume that casinos have changed the mechanics and percentage of the rake in poker and they’ve definitely played around with things like giving out bonuses for straight flushes.
But again, I have no idea what we’re talking about anymore.
sinnick
1922
Just close your eyes and think of the Demon Hunter.
Nesrie
1923
Poker isn’t anything like blackjack or slots.
I can see where this might have been about the house taking cuts, but he was also using poker becaues poker is about the other players, not the house… except in this case whether there are winners or losers can be skewed by Blizzard doing whatever the hell they want, when they want without notice thus changing the game mid-game.
Did Riot steal her from Blizzard for League of Legend, was it vice versa, or does the girl with crossbows hunting demons archetype come from somewhere else?
This whole forum is like the cure for anyone excited about anything.
I wonder how much the fourth leg will go for.
RepoMan
1927
OK that’s it, I am officially sick of talking about auctions in this thread. It’s been done to death already and whatever you plan to say about it (yes, I’m talking to you, you with the brain full of auction thoughts and your finger hovering over the “post reply” button) has already been said, better, by others here or elsewhere.
Anyone posting more auction gibberish here gets this:
Mordrak
1928
A broken image link?
I’m quaking in my internet boots. ;)
Except it’s not. I’m just as excited about D3 as I was a month ago, a year ago, five years ago, and so on–ie, VERY excited.
Yeah, if anything, all this economy talk has me even more curious to know how it will all play out. I want the game to come out sooner now so that I can see how the auction house economy plays out in both the hardcore and softcore characters’ worlds.
Exactly. Much of this is stuff that I’ll be ignoring/avoiding anyway. Aside from the online requirement and limited character slots, I plan on playing just as I always had planned. D3 is pretty much immune to excitement cures for me, I think.
Limited character slots? Do tell more, this is news to me.
StGabe
1933
One way to read the chart on page 62 is that 86.7% of gamers have significant interest in D3. :-)
If my reading of the official website and forums is correct, you’ll have a max of ten character slots, enough for one male and one female of each of the classes available at launch. They say the ease of respec makes more unnecessary; whether that’s true or not will largely depend upon storage space, the number of interesting uniques and sets, and so on.
Hmmm. I wonder if this means I’ll have to delete older character’s ghosts after they die? Me and my friends had our Diablo 2 selection screens absolutely filled to the brim with ghosts of older characters that had died. We actually liked that quite a lot, because sometimes we’d come back to the game after a year and just go through our ghosts and say “remember this character?” and the even more popular “remember how this one died?”
Didn’t Diablo 2 have a pretty limited number of character slots for playing online?
Yeah, it was 8 per account in Diablo II. That might have changed with LoD, I can’t recall.
Wait… we can still play Diablo 3 without any other people, right? One of the main reasons I like playing Blizzard games is because you can usually ignore the types of people who like Blizzard games.
I plan on playing Diablo 3 the same way I did D2 – co-op with friends. This time we’ll have to use battle.net instead of direct IP but if it’s not laggy, it won’t be a big deal. I can’t imagine Blizzard mucking up the basic ‘whack stuff, get loot’ gameplay.
Oh, and I heard something about the game now coming with an auction house. What’s up with that?
