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#1 May 22 2013 at 8:27 AM Rating: Good

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I know is Diablo, but it's still pretty interesting, it's a Blizz product, and it does have to do w/ virtual economy.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-21/diablo-3-case-virtual-hyperinflation

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#2 May 22 2013 at 9:05 AM Rating: Excellent

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I honestly have no idea how they could not see this coming. There are no ladders or any other form of reset, no real goldsinks once they caved in to the complaints about rep costs and crafting being too expensive (which I agreed with since those were rather bad examples of how a goldsink can be implemented). Only a constant input of items and gold into the economy. The problem is amplified due to botters, which they still are powerless against. I really hope the expansion will bring something to adress and hopefully solve this. Until then the D3 softcore economy is more or less screwed.

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#3 May 22 2013 at 9:14 AM Rating: Good

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Aside from the article's author not sounding like Tyler Durden at all....

I'm glad now that I haven't played D3 in months. Havent missed anything. Except possibly the headache, frustration, and anger for Blizz letting their product get mangled.

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#4 May 22 2013 at 9:36 AM Rating: Excellent

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Wow, that's gotten crazy. I suppose like everyone else I'm not really surprised though. It was fairly obvious early on there were no decent gold sinks, and the RMAH by itself was good for the stability of the value of gold.

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