Diablo III - Real Life MoneyFollow

I wonder how much money I'd have to make off of that to write off Mountain Dew as a business expense.



No, but seriously, I don't like this.

Edit: I can't wait for someone to corner the market on some "Zod" equivalent in order to seriously drive up prices only to have Blizz tweak the drop rates(or start offering it themselves at an unlimited quantity for a fixed price) and cause them to lose tons of money. The lawsuit will be hilarious.

Edited, Aug 1st 2011 4:13am by Poldaran

If they put that in WoW I will stop paying Activision to play. Also I would never start playing a month subscription fee game that had RMT baked in to the game for non-vanity items.

/golfclap Kotick /golfclap

I'm no fan of micro-transactions that enable players to buy wins, but at least they're making the win items available for in-game cash as well.

The prospect of selling loot for real life money sounds interesting.

Real life win item!

I'm sympathetic to the idea of trying to put a dent in RMT, but I don't think this is the way to do it.

It won't dent RMT, it will legitimize it. Now, the hacking and farming will generate cash directly. I know legitimate distribution channels are being hailed as the cure for pirating of IP, but I don't think that model is applicable here.

The only alternative I see (if they insist on using real money) is distasteful; they could put everything for sale for real money and thus put a cap of sorts in place. Why pay Phatlewt $30 if Blizz will sell that Bologna of Implacable Destruction for $20? Better yet, why don't we just leave that can of worms unopened.

I also don't want to think about the potential tax issues; I can see being presumed to make money by playing and that is not going to be good. Can anyone else imagine the IRS making Bizz (or us) produce records for all accounts and transactions?

Personally I wouldn't mind it that much.

A) because no gold or items are generated, it's just other people selling the stuff they legally got

B) The devs don't get money from it


Honestly, I don't get why WoW didn't adopt the EVE online version of RMT yet: the buying and selling of PLEX


Either way, the diablo series is a Singleplayer game with the option of multiplayer for me. I prolly won't use the auction house anyways.

HI ANOBIX!

But wait, it's even better!

Mods are also banned!

And suddenly, I have much less desire to play this game.

@#%^ you, Activision. @#%^ you.

Edit: Also, the fees to post, the fees on an auction selling, and the fees for sending the money to anything that's not a Battle.net account?

See previous comment.

Edited, Aug 1st 2011 9:31am by IDrownFish

If you've never played Diablo online, you are seriously missing out.

Well, that's a shame. I was looking forward to playing this game, but I really don't need this kind of bullsh*t in my life. I suppose it's just a continuation of the anti-LAN stance they took for SC2.


I doubt it will have much of an impact on their sales figures - gamers are mostly all talk about boycotts and the like - but it's possible it won't actually make them much money, depending on the way it's set up. Most likely, though, they'll rake it in.

Edited, Aug 1st 2011 4:22pm by Kavekk

O HAI!


I'm not sure how I feel about the required to be online part as well, for a game being an optionally single player game, that would be really stupid to not be able to play wherever you go (for example on a plane flight, etc). IIRC, you can play SC2 in offline mode, can you not?

Personally, I think this is neat. Item/gold selling is gonna happen one way or the other, at least this way everything's nice and safe and legit.

From almost the very beginning, people were trading D2 items on eBay or some less-than-reputable 3rd-party sites. Scam prevention had to be a veritable nightmare for the customer service dept. With the entire transaction taking place in-game, the potential for scamming is mostly eliminated.