Diablo III Forum Activity

Community manager Bashiok stepped into a debate about Diablo III and money sinks to comment on the issue.

Gambling in Diablo II. Money sink.

If you want to get into, buying anything from any vendor is drawing wealth out of the economy and therefore could be considered a gold sink.

I know what you mean though, you’re talking about the huge $$ investments that don’t provide immediate benefits to your character. Which, by the way, ground/flying mounts in World of Warcraft wouldn’t figure in to as your increase in income from simply traveling faster more than makes up for it. But that’s not really important here…

We’re attempting to build a more stable economy in Diablo III, and just like Diablo II did, we will have ways to draw money out of players. If that means there will be big ticket items or not, I don’t know, could be. If we want to throw out gold as much as Diablo II did we’ll definitely need some better places to spend it if we want gold to be worth anything.

To address the OP, we don’t like the idea of binding items just because Diablo is a trading game. To take away that ease of trade but add an asterisk behind it stating “Unless you pay a lot of money”, it’ll just make it feel… I don’t know… kind of crappy. There are better ways to go about keeping a stable economy, and whenever possible they should be on things the player finds helpful, useful, or at the very least “fun”.