micro transactions only empower a minority of people who play games.If only people would stop spending money irresponsible on excessive material objects all centered around vanity, we would solve a lot of real problems in the world. People are taught to behave this way from an early age in our culture, and it's entirely unacceptable. It's perfectly possible to make amazing games without micro transactions to further exploit people, but let's face it, people have more money than they know what to do with so they shrug off any fiscal responsibility with it.

a definition of functional is required in this thread.I have a feeling it's going to be a subjective response depending on who you ask.

The RoRG, isn't the source of the problem.IT's a piece of the problem. The real problem is itemization, alongside how combat works, and then how gathering items works within the bounty/rift system.All of these lead to a stale experience. The game's alright, but it's certainly lacking in fun over the long term.

Yes. I have always wanted to live in a world without free trade. I hate free trade, it's unintelligent, wasteful, and capricious. All the worst human traits come out when you allow free trade. War, famine, environmental destruction, all of these come from free trade, and those seeking to monopolize their own material wealth, while living behind gated communities and pay walls.

Resource generation in the game is handled horrible to begin with.It's not just a problem with the earthen might set, as it is a problem with how resources are generated for a variety of classes.

Many economic majors are out of touch with reality, living in an esoteric fantasy land, using their 'expertise' as a crutch to justify singular and small minded philosophies while ignoring the larger picture and it's impact on communities and social settings. In fact most people who go to college suffer from this problem. There are no easy answers to complex systems when humans are involved. Blizzard did bring in economic experts when they first introduced the real money auction house to help put gold sinks in the game so the exchange rates between the real money auction house and gold auction…

the game all ready lacks content irregardless of the buff or not.

they should have used all of the original d2 classes, and then introduced 2 new ones on the original launch of d3.

An apology? No.A "goob job" and a pat on the back when they do something well, yeah. But certainly not a an apology. Most of the constructive criticism they've received is more than justified.Consumers have the right to complain and show their contempt for a business when they feel expectations were not met.