Quinn wrote on May 3, 2012, 17:13:
I'm not sure about my following statement, but: you cannot buy gold with RM. This and the fact that your examples are based on MULTIPLAYER prequisite games knock them right off the table.
You were right not to be sure. Since you CAN indeed buy gold with RM. In fact, blizzard mentions this repeatedly in the linked FAQ when talking about buying commodities, and that one of them is in game gold. (that extra 15% hit is for commodities, listing items is a fee instead).
example "Commodities are any non-unique or “stackable” goods that players find, including gems, crafting materials, gold, and other types of functionally identical goods that exist in large quantities"
I often find it helpful to RFTA.
Also, people buy items for single player games as well as multiplayer games. See SIMS and many DLC for single player games. So that's kinda a moot point. Plus, there's no "single player" as such in diablo 3, its more of a solo multiplayer mode thats forced to stay always online.
Krovven wrote on May 3, 2012, 20:34:
I'm sure some twit will be willing to pay $10,000 for some uber item.
FAQ says $250 max bid per item. Plus a blizzard credit limit of $250. So on uber items, it will be who can snipe a $250 amount first, gets the item.
Probably because blizzard doesn't expect people to be making enough money to quit their day jobs.
This comment was edited on May 3, 2012, 21:27.