Diablo 2: Resurrected forum trading blamed for Diablo 4 changes
Fans are slamming Diablo 2: Resurrected forum trading once more following the arrival of the Diablo 2: Resurrected 2.5 update and the start of ladder season two in the Blizzard RPG game. After the launch of its closed ‘friends and family’ internal testing, Diablo 4 beta leaks seem to confirm initial suggestions from the development team that the next game will feature limited trading on lower-end items, with no trading for unique, set, or legendary equipment and gold.
It didn’t take long from the launch of Diablo 2: Resurrected ladder season two on October 6 for players to start popping up with fancy endgame gear. This has led to frustrated players taking to both the Blizzard forums and the Diablo Reddit to voice their discontent. In a post explosively titled “F*** JSP,” user BerettaValentine takes aim at the leading Diablo 2: Resurrected trading site, D2JSP.
The site allows users to trade their Diablo 2: Resurrected items with one another, utilising its own resource called ‘forum gold’ as an intermediary currency. Forum gold can also be bought directly for real money by making a ‘donation’ to the site, though D2JSP maintains a strict policy that users may not sell their forum gold to other people for real money.
BerettaValentine’s post claims that the presence of JSP “ruins the whole spirit of the game, especially ladder.” They explain how one player in their group was quickly “decked out with perfectly rolled magic find items bought with forum gold” and that the player’s rationale is that they’ve “earned it” by grinding forum gold for months. BerettaValentine explains that “the point of ladder reset is that everyone is supposed to start from zero” and that players being able to trade for the best gear with an external
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