Diablo 3's Real Money Auction House

[Blake]

What do you guys think of this?

For me it sounds like pay for power (boi) but instead of paying the company you pay the other players. As a hardcore gamer I love this! Of course farmers will be crazy. However we will be TOP END players doing the highest content the most efficient way. Anyone who knows ARPG knows end game is farming the last boss(s) over and over for the lewtz.

Of course hacks and bots will ALWAYS be better. If blizzard can really prevent bots/maphack (from sc2 i would say they cant) then we will be able to make some decent money from playing an awesome game!

http://www.diablofans.com/topic/2624...s-event-visit/

Here comes the bombshell: he also introduced to us the auction house. The real money auction house. Yes, an auction house that you pay/sell items for real cash and vice versa. As soon as this dropped, it was silent, though I couldn't stop myself from spitting out "Bwhat?!" to break the silence permeating throughout the room. He went on to tell us that it would be a regional AH, based completely on money. On the AH, there will also be an autobidding system, with a smart search, and secure item transfers. It seemed to me like he waited a few slides before he actually let us know that there would also be a gold-based auction house, as well as in-game trading... Maybe just to see our reactions or something, but do not fret! You will not be forced to use real money. In addition, we'll be able to pull items from our shared stash to place into the AH. Their reasoning behind doing this is simply because the players want it. If the players didn't want it, they would not have been using shady third party sites, like d2jsp in the D2 era of the series. Essentially, all Blizzard did was make something that was previously unofficial and sketchy, official and supported. Though, I should also mention that they are planning on selling/buying characters at some point in time as well, not at launch.