Diablo 3 Real-Money Auction House To Be Region Limited

Written by: Jarrett Robertson (@_Caltu_) | May 3, 2012 1:00 pm

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The feature everyone wants to get their hands on for Diablo III has had some interesting information announced over the past few days.

The Real-Money Auction House is set to be limited to your region even though you can freely move between region when playing. Both Europe and the Americas will have access to their region Real-Money Auction House but there will not be one at launch for the Asian servers.

Most likely this is due to legal issues specific to China, needing time to iron out before it is implemented and needing to make sure that no international laws are violated via earning money externally. But now you have to decide, do you wish to play out of your region with friends that live overseas but have to give up the RMAH or simply play forever alone and earn yourself all that money.

The regions are open for all, but characters are region bound and you will need to level your hero once you decide to switch.

You may have your hero decided, but have you decided your region?

Diablo 3 Real-Money Auction House To Be Region Limited

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http://twitter.com/SSindog Sindog

So with the choice between using the regular AH and RMAH I think most users will come to this realization: This is a high demand item, it is being sold for $15 USD, I am going to sell it on the RMAH. The other realization that people will come to is: I have $30 USD in my Diablo 3 account, maybe I will buy that item that is on RMAH for $20 instead of farming 1 million gold and buy it on the regular AH.

As in anything monetized.. there will be winners and losers. Do your research on the items in D3 and you probably won’t end up the loser. If you find yourself impatiently buying items to “have it now” you can expect to come out on the losing side.
http://twitter.com/Jerthon19 Jerthon

i disagree ppl will post items on the gold AH just because they plan on selling the gold on the RMAH
http://twitter.com/Jerthon19 Jerthon

The 2 Auction houses will work hand in hand if you do it right
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kyle-Eggers/100000868131517 Kyle Eggers

The RMAH is the worst feature in Diablo III, and it gives me a really bad feeling about the games. I really feel that this is a sign of Blizzard becoming to greedy, and caring more about about making money then putting out a great product. I will be playing D3 but I have use for either of the AHs. The great thing about D3 was going back through the game hoping for that one drop. and how the drop are completely random. These will take that away from the game. The RMAH and the gold Ah, along with the okay at best skill system could hurt Diablo III more then anything else and remove a lot of the replay value out the game. I was in the beta for 2 months and even with the AH came up for testing I had no intrust in it.
I remember play I think it was EQ where buying toons, items, account, or gold was considered cheating by not only some players but also the companies like Sony, Blizzard and other companies. Why now when they find away to make money on it is this okay? I really feel that the morals and ethics of companies who do this are doubtful, and this move by Blizzard still gives me a bad vibe. Greed isn’t good and is a sin( odd me saying that since I’m not religious), and one major problem with everything right now is that greed is so out of control.