World of Warcraft®

@Portac: It is when you have been waiting for diablo 3 for 4-8 years, then all the sudden they rig it up with this nonsense.. ide say its blizz's problem, because they owe the players more then a slap in the face.

@Déjàvu: the thing is... blizzard CREATES the items.. so they are creating money out of thin air... they also control supply and demand... this is known as a monopoly. At least the gold sellers had to acquire it at some point.

@Blazeface: the only thing stable about wow.. is its downhill path.

@Caramón: Some of us have been playing blizzard games since the original Diablo. Packing up and moving on without putting in our 2 sense on this sellout of a game does not give our loyalty the dignity it deserves. Changing for the better? you and obama should buy a house together.

@Heralmoss: Fail troll is fail.

@Mastodon: lulz

@Mastodon: And I can tell you that I've been gladiator a few times, including warrior in Season 5. I've also done a good share of hard mode raiding, but what does that have to do with anything?

I "achieve" things for me and not for the others, I am more than what my achievement list says I am, you are not.

@Synris: No you don't have to pay to be the best, but if you have the money you CAN pay to be the best. Which is bull!@#$, instead of running into the odd illegally bought char (from e-bay) ruining your groups, you'll be surrounded by well geared morons that don't know how to do anything beyond use their daddy's credit card. And all done with blizzards stamp of approval.

@Iminent: Hey when you find any MMO sheltered from the socioeconomic factors of the real world call me. You can complain all you want but the reality is MMOs since the beginning of time have secondary markets for virtual items or services for real world currency. If you don't like it fire up that dusty Nintendo and play mario bros by yourself. Amount of game played is never relational to skill so your stereotypes have to work both ways baddies come in all forms paid or not paid. I think Blizzard is coming to grips with that reality and making it safer for those who would normally have gone through other untrustworthy channels. I'm neutral about this overall the games come with the same challenges of meeting good and bad people in RL, you can choose to exit or deal with it and keep on moving along. If you feel entitled your $15 a month is worth more than someone else's then sir you need a reality check.

@Iminent: perhaps we forget that gear is only part of being able to pull ones weight...more often then not...if someone has epic loot and sucks...they still suck ingame! lol just saying...could work out great if the comaparable version of The swift Spectral Tiger is on the AH!

@Iminent: not the way it works. watch the blizzcon q&a.

@Reihana: they always did, it was just shady business back in the day. Blizzard is legalizing real money trade and making it mainstream. This is a huge change in virtual currency (and economy as a whole).

@Reihana: Yes it is a genius system for players who are looking to be the best and take their gaming seriously.

@Ezreal: PP is shady, as a seller on ebay, I have to say it. PP feezes peoples' account for no reason. My account got frozen by being not able to provide some tracking number for delivery.
D3 has a huge market, and now, PP can freeze another milion accounts for quick money with on interest. Just be aware of using PP, as its shady policies which you will never get to find on their website stated in details.

@Ånthem: Looks like they are more interested in making money than developing a great game. This is really putting a damper on my whole sentiment toward this game.

@Bloke: Bloke, you should read the same post but in the Diablo 3 community website, you'll be pleasantly surprised on how much more intelligent the comments there are.

@Anthem: no, you spend money if you want to. Stop living in a dream world, people on WoW are consistently buying Gold. Say I buy 15k gold from an illegal website and use that money to buy a BoE weapon. Isn't that the same thing as spending 20-30 bucks on it?

Some people have no time to play but enjoy the game, these people are the ones that'll buy a lot. Some people play a lot and were, literally, wasting their "work" on nothing but fun. Fun is alienating, making money is not, money is reward.

A good player on WoW will get 2500 in arenas in the first week of level 85 with welfare gear, the insecure person that thinks gear is the reason they dont "fare well" are always sad, paranoid people that don't really understand how things work.

@Ånthem: You do not understand the system then. You do not have to buy with your real money on all item(s). Only if you are a PRO gamer and are looking to be the best you will spend your hard earned money. You pay 15$ a month for WoW why not pay a few bucks for D3....