How much do u guys think diablo 3 merchanting will equal? Pocket change? 10k$ a year? more? much more??
Just wondering how much experienced economist (not supply=demand slaves) will be able to make? Could it possibly equal a full time job? I'm very curious about this.
You know, we have another forum for non-SK stuff. It's called Gremlin Chatter.
I think the best source of income at the start of the game will be to those who will be able to get the 'end-game' equips first. I mean, as we have seen here, players are willing to spend hundreds on amazing equips. The amount of gold-farmers and just general gamers trying to make every penny possible will make for extremely low prices on the generic items though.
Overall, I assume it is possible to make more than 10k a year off of the AH, but it would take a lot of effort. More than it takes to do it in this game sadly. Unless, of course you have a team of Asian gold-farmers to grind for you. I guess you could use Rommil.
That's the opposite of what i hope. I hope it is compeitive and i can drop an extra 10-15k in my pocket. If ce was $$$ i'd be about there a year. Why not invest my effort there instead of the trainwreck of the last patch was for me, ya know.
Yeah, I mean, the CE/AH market in this game is, and was, easy to profit off of. With Diablo it will be filled with people as clever with the economy as you and Rommil were all trying to do the same thing.
The biggest reason, however, was that Spiral Knights had a system where players needed to buy CE from other players to play the game, and Diablo has no such system as people will end up just using alternate accounts for all profession-based materials and necessities. There will end up being a lot more supply than demand (Yeah, yeah, you may not be strictly going with S&D profiting but it still has a ton of relevance to all merchanting).
At the moment its pretty easy playing the auction house. I play on the EU server though.
Not sure about the reliability but here
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5235710071
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Pawn's talking about the real-money auction house, which is now delayed indefinitely because Diablo 3 is a technological disaster.
You say poe-ta-toe, I say poh-tah-toh.
You say SK copied Diablo , I say Diablo copied SK. It's actually about the same do since SK is part of steam, there are trades in-game to trade CE for other item games & games in general. In other words, I'll give you x amount of CE if you give me TF2 gear.
I play the auction house to increase my gold so I have the option to sell it on the real-money auction house (whenever the auction house is released that is).
Considering the first Diablo came out in like 2000, I totally
agree with you. Diablo copied SK. -_-
Diablo 1 was in 1996 and Diablo 2 was in 2000.
Probably as much as you pump into it until people rage about it and start marketing another game and get kicked from the forums for raging, and rinse and repeat.