Diablo 3 : real money auction house - confirmed

Make money... yes, that's fine. But from what I remember, the whole industry started because people that made games enjoyed doing it... Now it's just to see who can pop out the most titles and make the fastest buck. Blizzard is still making good quality games, even if their recent decisions are horrible. But they take time... very long time to produce their products. However, the further they progress, the more they switch from the model of making good games to simply just making profit. I mean... heck, look at the starcraft2... 3 separate campaigns in 3 different boxes? Can you see how they're trying to milk that one?

at least they aren't coming out with a new CoD every freakin year.

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rabidwolf9 wrote:

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Septile wrote:

Hmm.. a business trying to make money?

GREED!!!!

People seem to forget that businesses are there to serve customers, not the other way around. In that regard, they should take better care at pleasing their existing customers. But when you're as big as Blizzard and you're going to sell millions of copies on a name alone, all that seems to go out the window for some reason - Greed.

In any case, I fail to see how selling games for 60 bucks a copy and having ~3 expansions planned at probably $40 each could leave them in a need for some cheap shot money making scheme to make a reasonable profit.

Because otherwise they will make their money off the copies they sell and move on to the next project. This way they will continually have a reason to update and moderate the experience. Yes, unfortunately it's not just a hobby for companies to make games, it's also business.

I for one do not think they'd work on their next project... they had 10 F*cking years to improve upon D2's ground work and what did they do... oh what did they do... *Is currently depressed*

I am officially giving up on diii.

The real money auction house creates serious perverse incentives. The very things that blizzard (poorly) fought in dii, botting, duping, etc., will now directly result in profits for blizzard.

Even if I don't play the game, however, I'm sure diii will still be fairly successful. I simply hope that other game makers do not see its success and think it has anything to do with the real money auction house.

Instead, hopefully PoE's ethical purchasing model will catch on. I really like the principle; it's one of the most attractive things to me about the game, especially now considering the closest competition.

Thread Lock Request... we've spent too much time on this crap guys, most of us have the opinion this is a bad thing. I am tired of reading it as it saddens me to think of what this means for the game I grew up loving.

The idea behind a real money auction house is great imo, there will be itemselling sites whether this AH exists or not, so I don't see all the whine about it.

The cut blizzard takes however is bullshit...

First the small cost to put an items into the AH which Blizzard takes whether the item gets sold or not.

An additional cut if the item is sold, maybe 1-5%

A third cut if you want to have the money transfered out of B.net, that's 3 cuts, and the last one using a thirdparty banking service sure as hell won't be cheap, atleast 5-10%, could be even more.

Funny they call this a fair way of getting items instead of going to shady websites, more like a legal, overpriced service for Blizzard to print more money.

There is absolutely no point in the RMAH due to the fact you have the potential to find ANYTHING in the game... It's a waste of money and if people want to cheat or get scammed they can use 3rd party identity theft rampant sites, no cheating.

Once again Thread lock request.

thread lock request because you are tired of talking about it? there are plenty of people all for the RMAH system. it's a discussion forum. if you're tired of reading about it just don't open the thread.

This is an off-topic thread, so I think a discussion such as this is good. Considering what Blizzard is doing is very new to us (it's similar to other things, but this is new), it's good to discuss it, so that even GGG can see how the crowd absorbs and accepts this sort of information.