Don’t Need It? Put It Up For Auction!
Nearly everything found in the game, including gold, can be exchanged with other players directly or through the auction house system. So say you’re a witch doctor and you’ve just found an incredibly rare, incredibly powerful axe that only barbarians can use. In the previous Diablo games your best option might have been to sell the axe to an in-game vendor, but in Diablo III, you now have the ability to list that axe in the auction house for your fellow barbarian players to bid on. And you know another player will probably appreciate the true value of that axe more than some heartless vendor who’ll likely just melt it down for scrap….
Amazing Search Functionality
The auction house’s "smart search" functionality can automatically sort items in the auction house based on which upgrades would be most beneficial to your character. Also, searching for the best gear for multiple characters on the same Battle.net account can be done all from the same interface without having to log out.
The Choice Is Yours
Use of either the real-money or gold-based auction house is completely optional -- that decision can be made on a per-item basis, and both versions of the auction house are functionally the same. In addition, players have the option to simply sell the items they obtain to in-game vendors for gold. They can also trade items to other players through a direct character-to-character trading system in the game in exchange for gold, other items, or just an overwhelming sense of goodwill.
Players Only
Blizzard does not plan to post items for sale in the auction house. The driving purpose of the auction house is to provide players with a fun additional in-game option for what they do with the items they obtain in the game. Items sold in the auction house will be posted by players and purchased by players.
Safe and Sanctified
The real-money auction house provides players with an easy-to-use, Blizzard-sanctioned way to collect money for items they obtain while playing Diablo III. It also helps protect players from the scams and theft often associated with questionable third-party sites by providing a secure, completely in-game method for purchasing and obtaining the items they want for their characters.
The Opera Ghost wrote on Aug 17, 2011, 04:33:Sepharo wrote on Aug 8, 2011, 18:59:
Totally worth $15!
But not in Tumbler dollars.
And we're literally talking about dollars here. Tumbler will not purchase a game unless he only has to spend the minimum amount implied by using the plural of the word dollar.
Boy doesn't know how to use the word "literally."
(He's not "literally talking," he's typing. Probably meant "literal dollars.")
Sepharo wrote on Aug 8, 2011, 18:59:
Totally worth $15!
But not in Tumbler dollars.
And we're literally talking about dollars here. Tumbler will not purchase a game unless he only has to spend the minimum amount implied by using the plural of the word dollar.
Blizzard sucks, Steam sucks, Battlefield sucks, CoD is awesome, indie games are trash.
Bhruic wrote on Aug 4, 2011, 16:31:
It's funny, of all the silly statements that Teddy made, that was the last one I expected to get a bite on. But if you check Bard's post history, he does seem to be heavy on the crackpot theories, so...
Bard wrote on Aug 4, 2011, 15:57:You make a lot of bold assertions. These bold assertions require equally bold evidence to support them. Without this support you become just another crank.Teddy wrote on Aug 3, 2011, 18:21:
Bush planned 9/11.
No he didn't. The zionists of PNAC did the plan, Cheney did the legwork, Israel supplied the manpower. Bush knew - he was 'shitting bricks' during his press conference - you only need to watch his expression during his upside-down my pet goat episode to realise something was up...
They used Mossad personnel through Mossad fixer Jack Abramoff. The front company Ace Elevator (the owner fled to Israel just prior to 9/11) planted the explosives during an elevator upgrade of the WTC buildings that a Freedom of Information Act request has just shown was never real (ie none of the legal paperwork that is required to get permission to do the upgrades was ever done).
The US military KNOWS Israel did it - and they're pissed. I'm waiting for them to hit back at Israel like they did after Israel attacked the USS Liberty and tried to drag the US into a war against Egypt.
http://tinyurl.com/3nev7v8
Yep - the truth is out there - just not being served up on a platter by CNN and Fox.
Teddy wrote on Aug 3, 2011, 18:21:
Bush planned 9/11.
Paketep wrote on Aug 3, 2011, 06:00:Dev wrote on Aug 2, 2011, 22:14:
Did blizzard add in LAN play to SC2 which had offline single player? NO. That would have been a far easier decision and far easier to patch, and it hasn't happened.
Yeah, the suits of ActiBlizzard would need to be intelligent for that to happen.
Luckily, the Chinese seem to have fixed that. Perhaps they'll also fix D3 when it's time.
Dev wrote on Aug 3, 2011, 05:41:Luke wrote on Aug 3, 2011, 04:49:They are NOT going to do offline SP with D3. Give up all hope about it now.
And i am pretty sure YOU know that
Yes I do, based on what blizzard has said. Such as the quote I linked a few posts ago about a blizz employee complaining he couldn't play d3 on an airplane flight since its NOT playable offline. That article was also linked on bluesnews front page.
In addition to blizzard saying this is the case in multiple places in multiple ways (such as even this very story this thread is about), I also gave logical reasons why this MUST be so if they are to continue on the course of unified SP & MP characters and want to have real money involved.
Dev wrote on Aug 2, 2011, 22:14:
Did blizzard add in LAN play to SC2 which had offline single player? NO. That would have been a far easier decision and far easier to patch, and it hasn't happened.