By bubbles be purged!
It’s that time of the summer, that time where the heat drains your energy, where procrastination turns into excess sleep and Steam has new time-consuming games on sale. Fortunately it’s also that time of the arc, that time where revelations happen and the plot speeds up until the less than epic conclusion. I will aim to have another comic ready on thursday, as well as the usual comic for friday. Stay tuned, twinked, tweaked or twilight twerrific!
Have you heard about the current Diablo III revelation about the auction house? Being able to buy items with your hard earned money, from the reality in which we supposedly dwell. Personally I might not play Diablo III, but I still find the discussion interesting. Some valid points, some pros and cons arguing about the implementation. Vanity pets and mounts aside, would you buy items and gear in World of Warcraft with regular money, if you had the chance?
He ate his speech bubbles? Aww… now we’ll never know what he said. Do they taste like cake?
Also, about the Diablo 3 auction house: look how everyone talks about the game now “I’m going to make so much money”; “I’m going to be rich”; “this is good, now I can buy those things that never drop for my set” etc. so everyone is thinking about money, but what about fun? Being a game, Diablo 3 should first be fun, not some golden goose everyone’s trying to get. It will get like a job for many fast “oh, I need to sit a few more hours to farm some [insert item name here] so I can get 20 $ so I don’t have to work this month anymore” etc.
Also, if this would come to WoW, I’d quit. Diablo 3 isn’t as MMO as WoW, so there the difference will be smaller (although it still makes me not want to buy it now) yet in WoW just think about it, it would fully negate dedication as some people would get to max level and buy all they need while others would sit and do dungeons for weeks.
that AH thingy fucked it up imo..
Forget about breaking the fourth wall; real men chew on it! :p