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Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!
You've missed the whole point of my rant. It's not a matter of when they are shutting the AH its the fact that they are shutting the AH. Blizzard started with a game design / philosophy that allowed those players with a PayPal account or credit card to buy top end gear. They have now arbitrarily removed that ability a year and half or whatever into deployment. I guess you think its ok for the game designer to significantly degrade gear that was paid for with actual money (not game gold) over and above the cost of the base game. I do not think its ok.
Not sure what 'broken and exploitative build' means. If the gear has the attributes you use them. It's not like life steal is cheating or some how illegitimate. Pretty much the only way a monk (or any toon, really) survived at the higher levels is with life steal. Now they've arbitrarily changed the philosophy, nerfed life steal and emphasized life on hit making my (expensive) gear far less effective.
As for the 20 hours a day jab, its because I have a limited number of hours to play online that I chose to use the real money auction house to get gear that allowed me to compete at a high level with very good sets and legendary gear. Doesn't seem like a difficult concept to me.
The fact that I'm in a small minority (glad to know you work at Blizzard and know these things as fact) should be immaterial. Fact is players like me poured significantly more revenue into Blizzards bottom line via the real money AH than players that chose to just farm or go the game gold route and that should count for something. Again, this doesn't seem like a difficult concept to me.
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So you got an advantage early on, and won't have that advantage going forward and that's why your mad?
Your gear is all going to be out of date as soon as the expansion hits, that's how these games work. The fact that you need to play for your gear, instead of paying for it, will make it harder for you.
I understand your concern, because that's how you want to play, but really don't agree that it is a problem.