A second opinion

The Psychology of Video Games blog has a post on Diablo III and dopamine which says very much the same about random loot causing more happiness than a steady stream of gold to buy loot with in the AH as I said a week ago.

Interesting solution proposed by the author: Bind on Pickup loot.

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