What is the real beef with RMAH?

I want to know what people really think will be the major negative(s) to the rmah.

Is it that they feel they will get left behind if they take a purist approach by refusing to buy gear in a game whos main objective has been to FIND gear? Is it resentment toward the rich little crap that can drop $600 on elite gear? Is it that they feel it will allow people to purchase dominance in pvp?

What is the worst that can happen in pve? someone joins your game with elite gear and kills faster and more efficiently than you do? once you develop a solid group of friends, wont this be avoidable?

I know the RMAH topic has been discussed a lot, but i think a lot of the negativity has been directed toward blizz implementing it as a money making scheme. What other issues have the community up in arms?|||I think for some it is simply a "money is the root of all evil" vibe.

People can have some pretty strange (and I think amusing) attitudes toward money. For some, it's a taboo topic in polite conversation.|||RMT in any game is seen as taboo. That's the whole story. I wish those that do not support the RMAH would realize three things:

1) You do NOT have to partake. If you don't support it, well... then don't support it.

2) RMT will happen in Diablo 3, regardless of whether the RMAH exists or not. In fact, it may even happen outside the RMAH anyway. But the RMAH is Blizzard's way of combating the existence of 3rd-party item sales sites, in a controlled and sanctioned manner. What's bad about that exactly?

3) There are still people playing Diablo 1 on Battle.Net. Giving us the service for free (with a game purchase of course) is not a winning financial model, especially with how long Blizzard games are typically played. If minor proceeds from sales on the RMAH keep Battle.Net free for me for the life of Diablo III and beyond, then hell, bring on the RMAH.

Pissed that the RMAH will affect YOUR economy? Man up and play HC then.|||The people who rail against the RMAH sound remarkably similar to the people who once thought that mini-skirts or bikini swimsuits were going to be the downfall of society.

"It just ain't right!"|||Quote:








The people who rail against the RMAH sound remarkably similar to the people who once thought that mini-skirts or bikini swimsuits were going to be the downfall of society.

"It just ain't right!"




Malarkey!!|||It is kind of like this the D2 is your ex girlfriend and she constantly told you how much she hated butt sex. Now she is dating Bobby Kotic and they are making butt sex porn in their basement. That 180 is what got a lot of people flustered.|||^This.

It isn't just that Bliz always prided itself on the integrity of the game space, and actively policed that space to preserve it as much as possible, making the sense of achievement in said space as real as possible. It's the fact that they still have that policy in every other title, while D3 is thought of as an R&D dump site, whose original creators abandoned the title and whose fans don't think of the game as competitive despite playing the &^$% out of arena mode at the 'con and spending collectively millions of hours on D2 ladders over the past decade.

Really, a delicious combo of hypocrisy and another beating for the red-headed stepchild of bliz IP.|||Quote:








It is kind of like this the D2 is your ex girlfriend and she constantly told you how much she hated butt sex. Now she is dating Bobby Kotic and they are making butt sex porn in their basement. That 180 is what got a lot of people flustered.




Wow! That is possibly the most amazing metaphor I have ever heard in my life... I didn't care about the RMAH before but now I think I may be angry about it.|||Could the RMAH actually facilitate diverse build design. Suppose a player has a great idea for an osbcure build that requires specific gear to compliment his unorthodox skill/rune combinations. knowing that he could just drop $15-$20 to get the right gear instead of countless hours of farming and trading, he may be more inclined to try it out. if it works, they do a write up about it, submit it to this website, a new build is born that may have otherwise been overlooked due to item availability.|||Quote:








I think for some it is simply a "money is the root of all evil" vibe.

People can have some pretty strange (and I think amusing) attitudes toward money. For some, it's a taboo topic in polite conversation.




I think this is pretty much it.

People get sensitive and often offended by the topic of real money in most situations for a variety of reasons.