Diablo 3 : real money auction house - confirmed

The real money auction house is useful for people that don't WANT or HAVE the time to invest in LOOTING items or gold but they do have real cash they're willing to invest. More power to them, they don't affect my gameplay experience and ANY item they are buying was simply from another player that looted the item which I'm more than capable of looting myself, for free. =) It's not Pay2Win, the Diablo franchise has always been mainly a COOP game, even this new Arena PvP is just for fun and nothing serious and they even admitted it won't ever be balanced LOL... just relax people and enjoy all these great games =)
I just don't think RMT belongs in a 60$ game, that will no doubt be followed up with 60$ expansions.
Last edited by Thoric#0079 on Aug 10, 2011, 7:18:05 AM
I agree RMT does not belong in a $60 game!
This is no surprise at all to me, don't you love Bobby Kotick?
Personally the real money auction house is the only reason why I will still play it.

It's the removal of the only remaining choice with consequences that dissapointed me (Skill system). At least I'll be able to have fun with the market since it's the only complex system left in the game.

Plus if Blizzard hadn't done that, I would never have heard of Path of Exile and wasn't even planning on playing Torchlight 2.

This is actually a great time to be a diablo genre fan. If investors see a lot of interest and money in this genre, we will see a lot of competition and much better games.
Last edited by Wrathak#4369 on Aug 10, 2011, 8:55:14 AM
Diablo II has j2dsp

it was bound to happen anyways I'm glad they did something official with it.
I think they should make all item BOP can't be traded, disable trade feature
I think as long as you can still sell the items for gold in game as well as RM then it will be fine.
1 + 2 = 5?
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Stopped reading after 3 pages.

However, I noticed a disturbing trend.
A lot of people are indifferent, or worse, fond of the idea.

People PAYING real CASH for ITEMS in a game that's supposed to be about HUNTING for the ITEMS in the game world. So much, that there are ITEMS THAT HELP YOU FIND ITEMS BETTER!!

It's crazy.

Also, to everyone justifying a developer supporting this kind of thing officially.
Saying, "It happens anyway, so this is no different", are foolish.

This will cause a majority of players to engage in this activity, rather than the likely 5-10% of the player base that did unofficially.

It's going to ruin the game, imho.

Crazy hope for a No RMAH Realm :(



EXACTLY.

I can't, REALLY can't understand why people would to buy items, whereas the trademark of Diablo always was the hunting for new and better items. The excitement, the joy, everything's lost when you just buy them for real money.

This game's just now a heaven for gold and item farmers. Great work Blizzard (ironically, they really did a great job in increasing their wallets with their new system). >_>


Same reason why people buy Characters and Currency in other games, they don't have the time but have the money to do so and are fed up with all the "school kiddies" having the high level equipment... Personally I'd say it's just the wrong game to pick then but Blizzard wants as many people to play their game as possible so they have to pull off crap like that.

And I don't really think it has any impact on gold farmers, they probably won't use Blizzards system anyway, why would they let Blizzard have a share of their profits? They will just go on with they have been doing for the past 10years and sell their gold and items through their own webpages.
It's a way to make a few bucks on the side while you play a good game. Don't get your panties in a twist. Sell to those who'll buy and do your trading on the gold-based AH.

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