Diablo 3 Real Money & Gold Auction House being removed

Yay! I paid-of my game by RMAH but was pretty sure it's bad idea to introduce that option to Diablo III. Normal AH is pretty "OK". Not perfect, but i don't dare to say "crappy". It's funny thing to buy items from others.

Good job, Blizzard. I don't buy your expansion because of that anyway, but it's good way to prove that you care about players.

?? How is them removing a revenue stream being greedy?
This is something players have asked for.

I hope they up the drop rate on anything decent then. I found almost nothing of worth the entire time I played the game.

The Gold AH was the only way to get decent gear as nothing drops.

"Greed"

Possibly the most misused word in a gamer's vocabulary.

More drama.

I don't know if I should laugh or cry for those who bought D3 to use it as an extra money making tool.

It's about time they removed the RMAH, but it seems odd not to leave the the regular one.

March 18, 2014

I might go back and play Diablo 3 again after this.

Greed? They lose money by removing the RMAH, a % of sales goes directly to their pockets.

All this does is make more of these people want to go use 3rd party sites. Less secure that is for sure.. but people will still use their money for items and gold.

Think this move was a bit silly on their part but it still has no effect on me. Now some of my friends will be a little upset as they have bought gold from the Real money part of the AH :P However one of them for sure will probably end up using a 3rd party site.

Also OP.. where you being sarcastic about the greed part? They made money off of the Real Money Auction House. Now that income will be gone.. so how are they being greedy?

EDIT
Now that I have fully read it all. Its the entire Auction House that is being taken out, think this is actually a bad move to be honest. Think they should have kept at least one of the Auction Houses. Just my opinion though.

Due to this unless they drastically improve the drop system in their "loot system 2.0" as they called it for the expansion.. Not really going to play it much after maxing out the new class and beating the new content.

Blizzard sells game without subscription fee and adds in RMAH which gives them a small kickback. Blizzard removes RMAH and is called greedy.

Makes perfect sense to me!

Good move, but I thank blizzard for giving me the tool to make the game pay for itself. I never thought that I would be able to sell 250$+ worth of digital goods in the span of 4 months (until chinese farmers dominated and exploiting AH completely).

Again, as i previously stated on s previous thread about loot 2.0, this move still won't make me go back playing diablo 3 if the expansion will cost me.

Thats Good news! Didnt buy the game because of that and other things. Now it is a good time to buy the game? What do you think?

My impressions about whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3cuSP-qCk

Well, honestly this was the only reason I even considered buying Diablo 3, so if they're removing it I see no reason to buy the game.

Wow, I really ever thinked this would happen. Blizzard has just been promoted again some steps up the ladder of the "worth-considering companies". Even though they might have made quite a lot of money from this, they take it out because it damages the game. I must take my hat off to them now.

RMAH really doomed this game from the begining. It took away most of the fun and many of the following updates were more like a method to raise even more money out of it. I told my friend a while ago that I wouldn't go back to play the game until is removed, and I feel like it's time to keep my word.

So we can't use our gold to buy items in the house anymore?

So we can't use our gold to buy items in the house anymore?

nice to hear that, maybe i will buy the game now.

I liked the Auction House, I just think they should have made the items to be Bind on Equip and maybe Bind on Account legendaries. This way it takes a lot of high-level gear off the market and people wearing Legendaries would be totally badass.

I think by removing the Auction House, they want to bring it back to what Diablo 2 was, but Diablo 2 wasn't good because it didn't have a trading feature, it was good because people enjoyed making new characters over and over again to try different builds.

Seems they were to busy amassing money to pay attention to anything else.

Now for offline mode.

That was a terrible idea. I always hated that idea

Players dont farm monsters to get loot? Cool story blizzard.

RMAH was a bad idea. GAH was a good idea.

Who cares, it's still a bad game.