Anyone else feel like the D3 Auction House is cheating?

[cranewings]

Seriously.

The only argument I can see for it is that my hard core character could die forever because of the lag caused from being on the auction house server, so I might as well use it.

In half a level, I'm going to get a +15 to my damage that I wouldn't have if it weren't for finding a cheap spear on the AH. I don't know how I feel about it.

[Thorkull]

Meh. I'm not going to spend real money on it, but if I find a steal on something in the gold AH I'll think about it.

[cranewings]

Thorkull wrote:

Meh. I'm not going to spend real money on it, but if I find a steal on something in the gold AH I'll think about it.

That's what I'm doing.

I haven't even looked at the cash money house.... OH I GET IT!

In D2, when you died, you dropped all your loot on the ground. Sometimes you couldn't get it back if the mob you fell in was dangerous enough. That's why I'm playing hardcore now, because I just can't pay attention to a game unless their is a death penalty.

I guess sense players are spending real cash on magic items, it wouldn't be very classy for them to make you drop your gear when you fall.

[sunshadow21]

I don't think the gold AH is that big of a deal. It's not something that works as a positive selling point to me, but at least it's not a negative selling point that devalues the actual game play. The real money auction house is a bit more of a concern. In a game where gear is everything, it seems like a bit too much of a blatant money grab that doesn't care if game play is devalued or not. It's one of a few big things I'm waiting to see how it shakes out before I buy the game.

[Slaunyeh]

I wouldn't call it cheating, no.

I do, however, belive that D3 is a better game if you just plain ignore the existence of the AH. For me, the longevity of Diablo has always come from the 'gambling' nature of loot. That remote chance that the next guy just might drop something epically awesome. That's a fairly addictive feeling.

With the Auction House, I can always have the best equipment for my level, and the game itself is, more or less, reduced to a cash-grind so I can go buy the good gear. Which, in turn, reduces the game to just blasting through content to brag about killing Diablo on Inferno, or something.

I'm not playing through D3 several times for the story.

[Umbral Reaver]

Gems are crazy cheap in the auction house! I can see why it might seem like cheating. Since gems aren't level-limited, I splurged on some Nightmare-quality gems about half way through Normal and it made a huge difference. Now that I'm actually up to Nightmare, it's hard again.

[Macharius]

Meh, I had enough of Auction Houses in WoW. I might use it to help upgrade the odd gem or two - because nothing bugged me in D2 like having only 2 of each quality of a single gem from chipped all the way up to flawless and just waiting to get that last chipped gem to reclaim my stash space and get that perfect skull or topaz.

[IceniQueen]

Cheating? No not really, considering last night I killed the Skeleton king and got a Big Magic item I could not use as a demon hunter. So me thinks I will sell it and see what I can get in return for something I can use that is big magic

[Lochmonster]

Umbral Reaver wrote:

Gems are crazy cheap in the auction house! I can see why it might seem like cheating. Since gems aren't level-limited, I splurged on some Nightmare-quality gems about half way through Normal and it made a huge difference. Now that I'm actually up to Nightmare, it's hard again.

I've been doing this too. getting +INT gems that are beyond my own jeweler's skill. Considering the cost of leveling the jeweler, especially after you start needing 10 recipe pages AND thousands of gold per level after you are done with normal mode, I'd mush rater spend about 200g for a +26 int gem then wait until it becomes available to me.