This is something that we know people are going to do either way. ' If I have more money than time I can purchase items, or if I’m leet in the game I can get benefits out of it.' ' We think it’s really going to add a lot of depth to the game,' said Rob Pardo. Wilson also said that Blizzard doesn't expect the auction house to make a profit, rather that it might ' break even'. Players will be allotted a number of 'free sales' each week.īlizzard's lead designer, Jay Wilson, said that Blizzard was staying away from a percentage-based cut to avoid the temptation to meddle with the system. Blizzard itself will not sell any items, though it will take a flat-rate fees for listing items in the auction house, plus another for successful sales. ' For a variety of gameplay and security reasons, we will not be supporting bots or mods in Diablo III, and they’ll be expressly prohibited by our terms of use for the game,' says the official line.īlizzard has confirmed that Diablo 3 will feature an auction house where players can buy and sell in-game items for real-world money. Players will still be able to play solo, confirmed Pardo, but will have to do so while connected to .īlizzard has only commented on the lack of mod support - which actually goes as far as expressly forbidding mods in the Terms and Conditions - in an official statement. Executive Producer Rob Pardo said that it was to provide a better experience for players and to tie them to earlier on, because if players levelled up offline characters and tried to move those online then Blizzard would not be able to confirm that no cheats were used. Mayberry also admitted that preventing piracy was a factor in the decision. The world of gaming is not the same as it was when Diablo 2 came out.' It’s kind of the way things are, these days. ' Obviously StarCraft 2 did it, WoW authenticates also. ' It’s the trend that we’ve been moving towards,' said Senior Producer Alex Mayberry.
See what Blizzard had to say on each point below.īlizzard has confirmed that, like Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 will be The news comes from PC Gamer, who quizzed Blizzard on the whys of each point. In a trilogy of dramatic reveals, Blizzard has revealed that upcoming RPG Diablo 3 will feature player-to-player microtransactions for real-world money, will have always-online DRM and will not support game mods at all.
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