 | Unsocketing price kills build variety, alts, trading(1) | Category: GeneralFebruary-14-2013 6:38 AM PST (10 years ago)  |
| Hello, 5 million per marquise for unsocketing? Did you lost your mind....? I play: Archon wizard, CM wizard and leveling WD. Let's see how it will look like: 1. When going CM from archon i change weapon, from my rare sword to chantodo's wand. Replacing gem will cost me 5m. Also i replace 2 - 5 gems in chest + pants to VIT gems (depending on MP level im planing to play) that will cost me another 10 - 25m. total: 15-30m and.....another 15-30m when changing back. ......:D Not playing CM again. Blizzard tells me that i must play one spec all the time. 2. Let's say i find slightly better chest (few more stats, resistances etc) i would normaly replace it with my old one, but in this case i will have to pay 15m to replace gems. Not worth it. Will sell upgrade on AH. So.. Not gearing any more. Blizzard tells me that i must sell upgrades on AH. 3. Playing WD sometimes, trying to level it. When playing WD i replace amethyst with ruby on my mempo and pass it to WD, cuz WD still needs +exp and my wizard is already paragon 100. So that will cost me 5m and another 5m when i decide that leveling my alt is enough. Not gona play with WD anymore. Blizzard once again decided that i can't play with alts and must stick to my main untill my brain will explode. SERIOUSLY, BLIZZARD. W T F? Can you ONCE leave your "we feel like it has to be like this", "we decided that we gona make it like this" and listen to the fans who are still on your sinking ship? With prices like that you are trying to create goldsink and save your !@#$ed up economy (That you created ofc). but, all you do is: YOU HURT PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DO NOT BOT, CHEAT OR EXPLOIT and PLAY THIS GAME FAIR. They cannot afford prices like that, so that means they cannot go for best gems in game or play with other specs and alts? People who are here just to troll, don't bother. You will say - then do not buy those gems. And that is retarded. I can afford getting them, but i can't afford having them, and to still be able to have them i must stop playing other specs/alts. Between choices to drop specs/alts and get best gems or to play other specs and stick to old gems, many people will go for new gems and not playing alts. And why even make that decision? It is not fun, it kills game. Prices must be symbolic, like 10-15k per gem. Try to save your ruined economy in some other ways. Blizzard get your !@#$ together, you are loosing so many cool people day by day. You can't seem to handle this situation. Can't do right things. | ||
 | Unsocketing price kills build variety, alts, trading(8) | February-14-2013 7:46 AM PST (10 years ago) |
| We answered this question in the recent "Ask the Devs" post. You can find the full post here, but I will quote the part that concerns your question: Q. Why did you make the cost to unsocket marquise gems cost 5 million? Many players want a flexible system where they can change gems frequently and this is just forcing players into sticking with a single gem due to high re-socketing costs. -- DBraveZ#1254 (Europe [English]), Claw8ds#1130 (Americas [English]) Andrew: We love that players are able to remove gems from sockets in Diablo III, as it helps provide more flexibility as you gear up rather than locking you to single choice. However, since un-socketing is so painless and costs so little, what we've found is that players will simply recycle the same gem across all their characters rather than creating new ones. An important goal with the new Marquise gems is to act as a gold and Radiant Star gem sink. Currently, there's nothing in the game that actually pulls those gems out of the economy, but to keep their value up, that's important. In all honesty, I wish the cost to remove the lower tier gems was much higher, more in line with the cost of the Marquise gem. We would prefer players to be crafting new gems of all types rather than just shuffling them around as that makes the gem economy more dynamic (more things coming in, lots of things coming out). Right now it's almost entirely stagnant, with demand going down every day. If you only had to craft one Marquise Ruby for all 10 characters, that would remove some Radiant Stars from the economy, but realistically it won't remove much. With the unsocket cost set to 5 million, you now have a clear choice: "should I move my gem 4 times or just craft a new one?" For the sake of the economy, we actually hope you'd prefer to craft a new one. So to answer your question as to why the cost is so high to unsocket marquise gems; it's not for the reasons you listed, but to act as a gold sink, but also to stimulate the gem economy because at the moment it's quite stagnant. :( Posted by: Manif This would generally mean that you are not going to be able to buy or create a Marquise gem to begin with sadly. A marquise gem costs 20 million to make, and this is not including the other required reagents. :(Agree. I've never had more than 3 millions... | ||
| Unsocketing price kills build variety, alts, trading(10) | February-14-2013 8:08 AM PST (10 years ago) |
Posted by: Zombie No, it was a sad smiley because I was telling Manif that creating or buying a Marquise gem might be too expensive for him at this time, given his comment.Also all your sad smilies suggests you don't appear to agree with it either since most people wont be able to afford that. | ||
