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Cosmo is @#%^ing hilarious.



And sad, very sad, when you stop to think about how people actually believe this bullsh*t.

Edit: Oh look, booze!
And the other side of the bottle

Edited, May 1st 2012 12:55pm by Aethien

I can't wait for all the bugs that weren't killed off because of the warm winter.

Get a cat, a good cat will hunt (and eat) any spider it sees.

A good dog does the same thing, and doesn't treat you like you're an idiot.

Fuggin' hate cats.

Huh, my respect for Blizzard is just crashing into the ground lately.

This is pathetic.

Basically:

Say you find a nice item you don't need, so you toss it on the AH and it sells for $10. If it is a piece of equipment, Blizzard will take a $1 flat fee from that. If it is a commodity of some sort, they'll take 15% (so you get $8.50 in our example).

These funds are added to your Battle.net account by default. BN funds can be used to purchase items off the AH or pay for other Blizzard services (but they cannot be used for game time or the Blizzard store).

So, like any rational human being, you decide that you'd much rather have the money than buy items for D3 or some random WC services. You decide to transfer the money to a real account.

Now, Blizzard charges a 15% transfer fee. So you end up with $7.65 or $7.23.

Obviously, to buy that $10 item, some other person had to pay that out at some point. So Blizz is taking more than 20% of a $10 purchase.

Now take a moment to realize that spending $10 on an in-game item is actually quite insane. But maybe you'd be willing to spend a dollar or so? Too bad, minimum bid is $1.25. So let's just go with that--you sell some item for $1.25. Funny thing is, because it's a piece of equipment, Blizz still takes a dollar outright... So now you have $.25. And then they take 15% of that when you try and convert it to real money. So you end up with $.21. Blizz literally takes over 4 times what you'd get.

I understand why there are fees. This is a service that costs them money, and they want to make a profit. But THIS is ridiculous. I wasn't happy with the RMT AH in the first place. Points systems ALWAYS hurt the player. This is slightly better, since you CAN convert it back to real cash. But 15% is a crazy fee, especially when they are taking a cut in the first place. And establishing a system where $1.25 is the minimum bid is absolutely crazy.

That sounds like a good thing to me, considering how little we as a people move nowadays. A little walk down the street and back can do everyone good. I've only had three dogs thus far, and they've all tried to eat things smaller than them. Which for the new one is like buses and elephants and such.

These I kind of get; the flat fee and the minimum bid. They seem to not want the RMAH to be someplace where there are millions of auctions on basic tradeskill materials, but instead a place where you can safely be rid of your 0.001%-chance-of-finding-epic-armor-of-awesomeness without getting swindled. Common items get traded with in-game currency, rare items with real-life currency, or something. They get to encourage that and make money. Win/win for them.



The 3 girls burn enough of my energy without a dog added to the mix.

Walking a dog is all fun and games, until the rain starts pouring down and Fluffy needs to wee-wee.

That said, I love walking my parents' dog. Gives me an opportunity to light a smoke and pretend I'm being healthy.

*shrugs* can only speculate.

So that some of the better commodities will still go through the AH perhaps? I mean a minimum bid will keep the little stuff off of there. Perhaps they don't expect commodities to be as profitable as gear at a given point in the game? Some exploit that's not entirely obvious perhaps? They'll charge more for gear because they think they can?

I dunno, be interesting to see how much they end up pulling in through AH fees. Bet it blows our mind the first time they release those numbers.

I support this statement.

This is all stuff they announced alongside the Real Money AH. I can't really recall if numbers were mentioned at the time, but this doesn't surprise me in the least. Hell, the whole "Blizzard Bucks" or whatever the hell their cash system is called is just another way to make money that is pretty much commonplace in the industry now. I wish it wasn't like this, but it is.

Eh, what do I care. I'm not getting D3 anyways.



****** Dentata!
What a wonderful phrase!
****** Dentata!
Ain't no passin' craaaaaze!

It means no *****!
For the rest of your days!
It's a wiener-free
Girl cavityyyyyy!

****** Dentata!



The hell did I just watch? That was terrible in every sense of the word, and not in the good way.

Edited, May 1st 2012 5:13pm by IDrownFish

****** dentata would be every man's worst nightmare, aside from getting a ******* by a cannibal with a taste for human sushi.