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Guys genuinely I'm not Markco.
He's some proof. http://tuberchimpy.wordpress.com/ - a blog I tried writing and gave up September last year on D3
On the right hand side I do link to Markco's blog, but I also link to others.
If you go read Markco's blog you will see comments from me under the same name in the comments of some posts.
I ran out of stuff to say and just stopped updating my blog.
I found I said a lot more reacting to other people's initial posts ( e.g. M ) so just commented on his blog when he posted sothing that chimed with me.
Going back even further this is where I first sort of started off my D3 blog idea - on a forum
http://www.macksites.co.uk/GameBank/...p?topic=1149.0
When I started the blog properly I duplicated the material in both places.
Now after all that I'm either not Markco or you lot are way past tinfoil hats on the paranoid scale.
You can troll me all you want for lulz, that's cool, but I am genuinely not Markco
If you suddenly do now after all that have a small glimmer of "oh maybe he really isn't Markco after all" maybe then you'll also understand why I fell that although there are some very insightful people on these forums it's also IN SOME RESPECTS ( NOT ALL ) the most unfriendly, closed minded, unwilling to consider someone else's point of view or give some small benefit of the doubt, forums I've ever visited. And as a UK IT guy in his 40s I've seen a few forums in my time.........
Some people here just seem to love to hate :(
Hmm... if you're not Markco... maybe Markco is tuberCHIMPY!???
My mind is assploded!!
At this point, I'm not even sure if I'm Zokar...
I wish I was Markco
I've been chatting with him via email. If I told you how much ( he says ) he makes from what he does in people paying his subscription fees your head really would explode. Of course I'm not going to, but it's a real shocker.
It's not a shocker. It's the first rule of sales... people are gullible. Or as commonly said, a fool and his money are soon parted.
There will be insane people who spend tons of money on D3. Maybe even $200 on a single item. Think of how much money people pay for WoW subscriptions, then add the potential for BlizzardBucks gift cards for Christmas and the engineer who makes way more money than he even knows what to do with.
The vast vast majority of people won't, but yeah, Zokar is right. There will be a few people willing to pay a ridiculous amount of money for D3 pixels.
I'm certain that there will be items that will sell for up to $1,000, perhaps more.
http://diablo3markets.incgamers.com/...ion-of-funzies
The nature of Randomized items leads to the potential for insanely rare and valuable items. Simply because players do not have a choice or opportunity to get that item by other means, such as farming X boss for example. They either have to pay for it, brute-force craft it (which would potentially cost more) or not have it at all.
PvP ladders would increase prices for end-game items by increasing demand. Nothing gives people incentive like PvP / competitive ranked gameplay to push up their gear progression constantly.
Except PvP won't be ranked. Well, it will be ranked to some degree, but nobody will be able to tell what rank he's at. I kinda hope they'll change that, as even if PvP is not esport level, having some sort of an idea how good you're doing is a good thing.
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