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xentronium on July 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick bu...

Hardcore D3 has (or at least had) much better economics, due to:

* no RMAH (and as such, all the good items are on sell for gold)

* and huge moneysink in the form of dying characters (as such, less gold inflation)

Also, when you play HC, leveling up your new character is so much less painful with AH. Besides, I'd just by something @ d2jsp.

norswap on July 31, 2013 [–]

I never played HC, is the regular auction house separate from non-HC though?

eterm on July 31, 2013 | [–]

Yes, neither gold nor loot can cross the carebear/hardcore threshold.

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