
The worst that could happen is you open your game up to the public, someone jumps in wearing some awesome gear, and you don’t know if he found those items himself. Neither of these are true though for a co-op action RPG. Guess they discarded that!īashiok: We still think that’s true for a MMO in which thousands of players co-mingle in a persistent world and vie for supremacy in eSport competitions or ‘world first’ boss kills in raids. Not only do we believe that doing so would be illegal, but it also has the potential to damage the game economy and overall experience for the many thousands of others who play World of Warcraft for fun … While we can understand the temptation to purchase items for real money, we feel that players can find ample equipment and money for their characters within the game through their own adventuring and questing. Source Auction House for Real From Blizzard in 2007: The game’s Terms of Use clearly states that all World of Warcraft content is the property of Blizzard Entertainment, and Blizzard does not allow ‘in-game’ items to be sold for real money. If we screwed up and people don’t want to keep playing the game, then we’ll have to find a way to fix that. But you said that one account per cd key was no big thing, because you can create many more characters per account than you could with D2.īashiok: I still think it’s early, despite how close we may be, especially considering that we’re not going to stop with a box release. You guys SAID, last blizzcon I believe? I don’t remember. Please don’t make it a “pay dollars for more character slots” expansion. I will say though it’s one area where we’re definitely open to expanding, it just seemed like a decent number to go with for now.

And without anything really ‘tied’ to a character, it’s easy enough to dump all items to the shared stash, delete the character, and start a new one. There are plenty of games with respecs where people will level many, many characters of the same class, just for the fun of it. Funny enough, even with respecs, leveling characters is fun. Only 10 Character Slotsįriskydingo: 10 Character Limit? Worst thing to happen to Diablo3.īashiok: You knew that was the case with respecs. Bashiok has been very busy responding fan feedback after the Diablo III Beta Press Event content was made public.
