(05-23-2012, 07:50 PM)RedRadical Wrote: My source? Just go take one look at Diablo Inc forums, or the official Blizz forums regarding this topic....almost all there will agree with me, I promise you this.
And I'm not even talking about Inferno difficulty yet, this problem is starting as early as Act I Hell Difficulty. In D1 and D2, the drop rates were much better, especially for the time you put in. Sure, the items were still rare, but you didnt have to fight 1 mob for 15 mins+ either to find stuff. For the time you put in in D3 fighting one mob, the reward is not nearly large enough - and it FORCES people to use the AH even if they dont want to.
The issue with using the forums as your source is that what you're seeing is only the small number of people who are actively complaining. The data set is too small to definitively say one way or the other.
A couple hundred, maybe even a thousand are complaining via the forums. How many people purchased the game? 6.3 million in the first week (based on a quick search.)
Even if 10,000 people are complaining over the forums, that's still just 0.15% of the people who own the game. We have no true metric.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you don't have a valid complaint (I'm also not saying you do.) I'm just saying we'd have a hard time coming up with the numbers saying or side or the other is in the Majority.