[QUOTE="maxblais"]

Buying item with real money will be more accesible now, so more people will do it.
People were not always willing to go on shaddy website but now that is it official...

Bot farmer will be happy with this news ! lot of money incoming :)

James00715

Actually, it will be less money for farmers in D2. An official auction house means there is a huge amount more supply than previously. Prices go down so the farmer makes less money per item. Not only that, the farmer also has to pay transaction fees to Blizzard for each item listing and sale. Overall, the farmer makes less money with this new system than before. All those trading websites are going to lose a lot of money.

I've never gotten into that stuff though, so it doesn't bother me, but I'm sure those people are very angry right now. I also remember reading with d2jsp some people had saved up tons of credits (or whatever they use) from D2 sales, but with this new system those credits are basically worthless. All that time they put in is gone.

Well from my point of view it will be more money, cause the demand will jump. And don't forget that not a lot of people will be able to put good and rare stuff on the AH. The supply won't come from people playing the game normally, because those get rarely those rare and precious items. for example in D2 a bot can get 4-5 shako per week, but you can probably get 1 per years if you "play" the game. this one shako per year won't lower the price at all.

This new system will encourage botting, and blizzard will profit from it also, why would they fight botters now ?

Buying item with real money will be more accesible now, so more people will do it.
People were not always willing to go on shaddy website but now that is it official...

Bot farmer will be happy with this news ! lot of money incoming :)

What I want to know is : Will they try to fight bots or just profit from it ?

Because we all know the quantity of bots in D2 now are running the gameplay of starting players.
Even if an item is very very rare, this item will become common if bots are in the game.
Then a newbie can buy this item for a few dollars, and even the most hardcore player can't get it with hard work.

Hopefully they have a good system to prevent bots, I didn't hear a thing about this and for me this IS the problem with D2

You'd be much better off just buying it for $10 on gog.com, rather than risking getting scammed by random forum users.

It's $10 for a fantastic 50 hour RPG. Is that not good enough value for you?

*edit* And yes, the gog version comes with all of the patches, no DRM, and you can download/install it as many times as you like.

Planeforger

I guess you are right, I was hesitating between buying TW2 right now without doing the first.
I'll wait for the 2 to get patched and price to go down ! 10$ US isn't that much, canadian dollars are up so it's even better :P
Thanks for the info guys

10$ is to much for you?KalDurenik

not really but it has been at 5$, so If i can save 5$ i'll be happy :)

question : do you get the patches with gog.com ? never used this site

Thanks

Hmm I think you are right, i mixed that game with another one
i'll go check on ebay, thanks

edit : too expensive on ebay (15 to 30 US)
best place i found is gog.com (10 US)

or can anyone make an offer ?

Hey guys,

I'm been watching the review for the witcher 2 and I really want to try out the first one before.
I've played it once, only did the first chapter and left it there (it was the console version)
I'm willing to give it a second chance now that I've got a gaming PC

I just missed a sale on gog.com, 4.99$ for the witcher enhanced edition :(
If you got the Witcher on steam and you can offer it to someone, i'll be willing to buy it from you (I got paypal)
So please make any offer in this thread, if we can come to an arrangement we can trade :)

Thank you !

edit : my steam id is "blaisminator@msn.com" if you want to add me there

Does someone know how long normal shipping takes for Gamestop.ca ?
I pre-ordered it and it says it got shipped today, any chance I can get it tomorrow ?
I also pre-downloaded the copy, too bad they don't just email the CD-key.. i don't really need the box :/

cya on bnet !

SWAT 3 - immersive game and AI

I tought I would be disapointed of this game because i had good expectations after reading all the good comments on it.
It shows it's an old game (bad A.I, graphics)but if you put that aside, the game is really well designed.

-The use of powerUp to improve your character (crysis ?..)
-Your decisions really affect the game
-Nice level design, lot of details even with those old graphics, found it pretty fun to be in Hong Kong, and hear the people speak cantonese, It feels different to play somewhere else than New York like 90% of others game out here
-All the dialogs are pretty interesting/funny

Well I just arrived in Paris - Denfert-Rochereau now... Pretty cool since i've visited this place also,
don't spoil the end for me ! :)