SillyHollow: Wow... And I mean that. I can imagine that if you know a game that extremely well that it seems 'normal' to do this. I consider myself a real gamer. Not in the sense that I play a lot of games for hours on an end each day or I'm a hardcore gamer (like you, and I mean that in a positive way) but in a sense that I belong on this site/forum because I know 'a lot' about games throught the years. (Ask me about a game name, console, year, a genre whatever and I know a lot about it, at least in my honest opinion ) Well anyway... back to the subject; So I can amagine too that Zolgar says that this is the reason why he hated Battle.net because I would too if there are people who like you (no offense by the way) who'd play a game like this. It really takes the fun out of it for 'normal' players.
On the other hand, I do admire the fact that you have such a knowledge level of Diablo 2, honestly!
Lvl 80 in 3-4 hours.... wow... damn....
Time for some self-reflection I guess? :P Haha, I tend to play fewer games, but the ones that I do, I play a lot of. I played this game very intensively for about 7 years or so and usually still tend to make at least one new character a year, though I don't usually play for longer than a month or so. Unfortunately, after all these years, my characters finally completely expired, which is a real shame :( However, I still have some forum gold left in order to deck out one character who I'd like.
Ultimately, I still disagree with you. I don't see how me leveling a character quickly is going to ruin your gameplay? In the end, all of the noobs will do anything to get into Baal runs that the 'pros' organise, because when they go with the other scrubs, a run takes them forever and often fails. This has the effect of evening out the player base, because the ones at the top carry the ones at the bottom.
Zolgar: This was more my point, because people like that literally ruin multiplayer for other players. It's just like in City of Heroes in the heyday of powerleveling, you could almost never find a team for legitimate gameplay. Also players of this sort screw up a games economy even worse, making the trading aspect of Battle.Net a complete joke for "legitimate" players.
I mean, I remember one of the last times I was on B.Net, the trading channel, people were throwing around high tier runes, SoJs, etc like they were practically nothing, when someone like me barely ever sees such things.
This is true of all online game economies, which is why I hate them all with a burning passion :p
Explain how my play is 'illegitimate'? All I'm doing is leveling quickly. If I did this 'manually' it would still probably take me a few days at max, so what's the big deal?
As for the inflation, this is the result of duping, which I endorse, but only to a certain extent. Certain items in the game (high runes) are so ridiculously stupidly fair that the game is more balanced as a result of duping rather than without it. In my almost a decade of play, I have myself found one Ber and a couple of Vex'es. The game doesn't reward the 'hard-working', it rewards the lucky. What you need is some level of duping that balances the game economy to a reasonable extent as a result of which people have a shot of getting rich, but it is still very, very, very hard.
And then you've got the Americans. The economies of US servers are fucked beyond repair due to retardedly irresponsible duping. So don't blame me, blame your fellow countrymen. If you want to have a very solid, challenging and rewarding gaming experience in D2, play on the European server. If you want to have a truly 'hardcore' D2 experience with very little duping etc, play on the Asian server, though I really recommend against it.
Anyway, sorry for adulterating this thread. Maybe someone should make a separate topic about this?
