Auction House FAQ

[Jake Martinez]

Oh god, this cant go well. some kid will probable steal his moms credit card and fuck everything over,

They probably will introduce a limit on the number of transactions to avoid this.

Still it is a legitimate concern.

I'm not really sure this is a legitimate concern. How would you handle it if anyone stole your credit card? A roomate? A neighbor? A girlfriend/boyfriend?

I don't see how this is any different than worrying that your kids will rip you off to buy songs from itunes, or crap from e-bay. If your kids are thieves, they are thieves. That's not Blizzards problem.

 

[paketep]

Q: Will that make me not buy the game?.

A: Not really, that decision was made when "no LAN" was announced. But it makes it even easier for me.

Q: But, but.. Diablo 3!

A: Yeah, sure, more like Torchlight 2. All the fun, all the features, none of the BS. And at half the price!

 

[escapador]

Why not just make it official so you can better police it?

I guess the next step is selling high level characters, since there's also a side-market for that? Where does one draw the line? I feel that Blizzard should try and allocate even more resources to combat the real money market, not join it.

Personally, I hate this. It has no place within Diablo, and for me, ruins immersion.

This bit of news coupled with the online only single player, is making me doubt my purchase. Games, for me are goods, not services.

 

[Sprinal]

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I'm not really sure this is a legitimate concern. How would you handle it if anyone stole your credit card? A roomate? A neighbor? A girlfriend/boyfriend?

I don't see how this is any different than worrying that your kids will rip you off to buy songs from itunes, or crap from e-bay. If your kids are thieves, they are thieves. That's not Blizzards problem.

true... I don't really have a responce to that except that Blizzard could make it easier for themselves if they simply made it so you could NOT trade equipment in multi-player.

Unless it is on a lan/wan. ALthough you are connected to Battle.net all the time they could sepearate it.

Finally if someone steals your credit card well your right it NOT Blizzards problem so they will probably state it in like page 24 of the EULA.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

This idea is brilliant, but the announcement of no offline mode turned this game from a guaranteed sale to no sale.

This is fundamentally a single player game. If I don't want them to blizzard has no business knowing when I'm playing. This game went from a must buy to a wait until it is in the bargain bin.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Q: Will that make me not buy the game?.

A: Not really, that decision was made when "no LAN" was announced. But it makes it even easier for me.

Q: But, but.. Diablo 3!

A: Yeah, sure, more like Torchlight 2. All the fun, all the features, none of the BS. And at half the price!

This. Exactly this. Thank god for options.

This has CoD syndrome all over it, where they're making really poor business/development decisions, but despite themselves, this will still incredibly well and reinforce all the wrong things. It hurts to watch.

 

[synobal]

ya I'm not buying Diablo 3, I won't support the actvision/blizzard Axis of evil.

 

[Raddra]

I hope they ban chinese and korean IP's and give them their own servers or game version.

 

[Deathfish15]

Oh great, I give it a week before something like this is introduced into WOW.

I wouldn't put it past them. I honestly don't know if this is the money grubbing tactics of Bobby Kotick and Activision, or if Blizzard is just this greedy and never went this far before because they needed to really build up a legion of mindless zombies that will follow them no matter how stupid their ideas are.

And this is a money grab for Blizzard, that's all. A fee for posting (if an item sells or not); a fee for selling; a fee for moving the money you get from your Battle.net account to your own bank or Paypal account. So many fees, I'd bet by the time an item goes from up for sale to your financial account, that Blizzard is going to take some 33-55% of the cut.


How do taxes take into account for these things? I know if Blizzard operates in a state like California, they'd have to count each transaction as a sale of their and pay taxes on it, right?





EDIT: Why is it when Ubisoft uses DRM it's "bad", but when Blizzard does it with requiring 'constant internet connnection', it's not a big deal? This is what I call hypocritical of the entire gaming community (reporters and players alike).

 

[Baneat]

Gold farmers will annihilate the $ pricing on the AH to the point where you would not consider selling your rare axe for money.

 

[Enrathi]

Why not just make it official so you can better police it?

I guess the next step is selling high level characters, since there's also a side-market for that? Where does one draw the line? I feel that Blizzard should try and allocate even more resources to combat the real money market, not join it.

Personally, I hate this. It has no place within Diablo, and for me, ruins immersion.

This bit of news coupled with the online only single player, is making me doubt my purchase. Games, for me are goods, not services.

In the article it already said that they're looking at eventually adding character sales to the AH.

From the top of page 3:
"Q: What items can be traded in Diablo III?
A: Nearly everything that drops on the ground, including gold, can be traded with other players directly or through the auction house system. Aside from certain quest items, there will be very few (if any) items that will be "soulbound" to your character and therefore untradable. We are also planning to allow players to buy and sell characters in the auction house at some point in the future and will have more details to share on that at a later date."

 

[Jodah]

Well, this is going to create the exact situations I have said will be the downfall of gaming. The moment real life money has a direct impact on game balance is the moment gaming goes downhill. Good items are going to end up on the RMAH for the most part and the in game currency one will have crap.

 

[zidine100]

so i guess pvp is now pay to win. Im sure you could get by on pvm, but...

well i wasn't planning on buying this game until it went cheep anyway, so i guess ill just skip it and play d2 for a while, oh wait its damn near impossible to play now due to item selling spammers. ironic isnt it.

 

[escapador]

In the article it already said that they're looking at eventually adding character sales to the AH.

From the top of page 3:
"Q: What items can be traded in Diablo III?
A: Nearly everything that drops on the ground, including gold, can be traded with other players directly or through the auction house system. Aside from certain quest items, there will be very few (if any) items that will be "soulbound" to your character and therefore untradable. We are also planning to allow players to buy and sell characters in the auction house at some point in the future and will have more details to share on that at a later date."

Oh... I mean... wow.



I'm disapointed.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Blizzard realised that they wouldn't be able to make a game as classic or beloved as Diablo 2 so they decide instead to just cash in on a bunch of poor deluded arseholes and it'll work because they are evil geniuses.

I'm not one who is easily surprised by the depths of corporate dickishness, but this?

Fuck, am I the only one who foresees more horror stories like the ones we hear about wow, but only so much worse because cash is involved?

People will die and babies will be ignored most likely, thank you Blizzard, thank you for making the world a little shittier.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Oh and in other news, the truly spiritual sequel to Diablo 2 will also be released soon, hopefully this year.

 

[Sartan0]

Never tried Torchlight. May have to take a look at II as it has some cool features the first one did not.

OT: Yeah hmm. I am on the fence on this one as far as the features but then I have been waiting for D3 so long I am beginning to become disinterested in it.

 

[zerobudgetgamer]

Does anyone else see the true depths of evil that this will bring? Think about it, you can sell items in Diablo 3 to pay for your WoW subscription...and I don't know if anyone else has played a game that has an RMT system that isn't Second Life, but it is fairly difficult to earn enough items in game to turn into real cash to really make a profit. You have to play for an insane amount of time - or deposit a fair amount of cash - before you start to even find stuff that can sell for a fair price, much less a good or great amount. And with all the fee's Blizzard has promised, an item that one person buys for $10 may only net you $6-7, even less if you decide to cash out.

I see a lot of people using this system as nothing more than a means to fuel their addictions further. Sure, it may allow people to buy stuff from Cash Shops who otherwise would never go to such expenses, and you may get the odd person who'll earn enough to pay off Internet and/or Electricity every month, but that will only come from spending 20+ hours a day farming.

 

[darkknight9]

I remember both the first and second incarnations of Diablo... and calling in sick to work to play them. Getting a group of folks together and LAN playing all weekend together... I am sad to say that due to a slow (dial up) connection at home (no highspeed available) I will be unable to experience D3 outside of youtube at work. I love this series. I've never skipped work for anything else. Why am I being punished for living in a rural area now?

I'm with some of the other posters... I'm checking out Torchlight. Fate seemed a bit kiddish but my son loves it. I'm very glad I've discovered gog so I don't have to worry about DRM garbage.

 

[poppabaggins]

Honestly, I'm not that upset about this. In fact, I might even enjoy it. I'm about to graduate college and, considering I barely have time to play games now, I doubt I'll have much time to pour into grinding. Frankly, I hate grinding anyways. My time is valuable to me, and I'd rather buy an item for $4 than spend an hour grinding to get it.

That said, there are plenty of games that don't require grinding and give me the full feeling of fun every minute. Bring on Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (with cheats).