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May 15, 2012 All Diablo 3 Auction Houses (both Real Money and gold) are regional, one of the same three regions there are for servers: The Americas, Asia, and Europe. Additionally, Hardcore characters are entirely separate from 'softcore' characters - this means no trading and a separate shared stash, but it also means a separate pair of auction houses to boot. Diablo III Real Money Auction House officially launched Chris Burns - Jun 12, 2012, 4:02pm CDT Today is the first day that users will be able to toss real hard-earned cash at virtual items in the.

Diablo 3 changed the game with the introduction of the Real Money Auction House. An auction house based on in-game currency was introduced, but it was the Real Money Auction House that caused the.
The Real Money Auction House has gone live today in Diablo 3 (for North America only – Europe still has to wait until Friday to get it) and it is already proving to be one of the most controversial launches surrounding Diablo 3. Many of the people who criticize Blizzard’s decision of implementing an Auction.

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Auction House

The Diablo 3 Auction House, both Real Money and Gold, shut down on March 18, 2014, just days before D3v2 went live and a week before Reaper of Souls was released. News of the AH's shut down came as a huge surprise when revealed on September 17, 2013.^[1]

The developers chose to discontinue the principle means of trading and gear acquisition in Diablo 3 since they felt it was detracting from the overall game fun of finding new items from killing monsters. This sudden change was (at least initially) quite popular with the Diablo community, with over 73% of voters approving of the decision in a popular vote on Diablo.IncGamers.Com. ^[2]

Blizzard explained the AH shutdown before confirming that Item Binding would be the main way to control related issues.^[3]

Grimiku: Removing the Auction House would fix the problem it created, but that would also create new problems, like chat spam (WTS/WTB [item link]) all day long. That’s definitely not ideal, either. One of the ideas driving Loot 2.0 is that players should not feel that they need to use the Auction House. We don’t mind if players use it, but targeted drops, reduced trash items, better stat ranges, new Legendary effects, and the Mystic should help players feel empowered by the item hunt, and not forced to use the Auction House.

1About the Auction House
2Method Behind the Madness: Why RMT?
- 2.1RMT Transactions and Keeping a Secure Account
3Development of the Trade System

About the Auction House[edit | edit source]

An Auction House is an in-game mechanism to allow for easier trading of items for items or money. Diablo II did not include this sort of feature, but many MMORPGs do, notably World of Warcraft. Diablo III will feature an Auction House (AH), which comes in two main varieties: the gold-based Auction House will allow players to sell items, crafting materials, and even their characters for gold. The RMT (Real Money Transaction) Auction House will allow the sales of the items listed prior, but the caveat is that they are for real-world currency. Namely, Euros, Dollars, Rubles, etc. Real-world money transactions within this wiki entry will be referred to as RMT, or “currency” transactions.

The benefit of an auction house is that players can put items up for sale in an automated system. They need not be present to sell their item or spam ads about their item in the chat channels. It's also easier to find items you want to trade for, since other players don't have to be online for you to see 'WUG'.

The Auction House is restricted between SC (Softcore) characters, and HC (Hardcore) characters.The AH was revealed during the late-July 2011 Press Event, and the first images and information about it were released on the first of August of the same year.

Official Auction House FAQ

Interface[edit | edit source]

The same item showing gold and RMT sales.

The Auction House is available for use during any point in time, including in the Battle.net menu, the game's main menu, the lobby, and also in-game.

The items for sale are listed by category, and each category has their own set of variables that the player may choose to search for. For instance, if a player is seeking a weapon with lifesteal, they will be able to specifically search for that mod.

In addition to this, Blizzard has also implemented a system where the player may select a character of their own choosing, and the auction house will perform a 'smart search' based on the items they have equipped, and what could conceivably be an upgrade for them. The efficacy of this system is as yet unproven, as an 'upgrade' for a specific build can be quite hard to define.

Your auction house history is also tracked through the battle.net client, showing the player what they bid, what they won, what they lost, etc.

Bids and Buyouts[edit | edit source]

Much like an auction house found in any other game (or on online sites such as ebay), a player may choose to bid on an item, or to pay the full buyout.The seller can place a minimum bid on the item, which is the minimum they are willing to accept for it (whether it is gold or an RMT transaction). They can also place a buyout on an item, where the purchaser may choose to simply pay an up-front cost in order to secure the item without needing to watch the auction, hoping they aren't outbid.

Hardcore versus Softcore[edit | edit source]

Trade in the Auction House is separated between game modes. Hardcore characters cannot use the softcore auction house, and vice versa. In addition to this, hardcore characters may only use the gold-based auction house. Any and all items, including characters for sale, may only be purchased with gold.

Auction Storage[edit | edit source]

Items that will be put up for auction, or items purchased at auction, are sent to and from the shared stash. The shared stash itself can be increased in size by purchasing larger tabs (with gold this time, not currency).

Seeing as how the Auction House can be accessed at any point in time, inside the game or in the battle.net client, a player can choose to send an item directly from their inventory to the auction house. The item will be removed from their inventory, and if it sells, then it is removed from the system entirely. If an item does not sell, it will be returned to the player via their stash.

Preventing Item Flood[edit | edit source]

The search window for the AH.

Item flood was a long-time worry for specualtive Diablo fans when faced with the prospect of an Auction House. Item flood consists of a player putting up junk items that had little-to-no value in the auction house in bulk, effectively flooding the market with things that nobody would conceivably want, making searching a difficult and frustrating prospect.Blizzard has decided to initiate a fee for each item listed, whether it is gold or currency, and this fee is taken out regardless of whether or not the item sells. A similar system is used in the gold-based auction house for World of Warcraft and it is fairly effective; in that game, the listing fee is a proportional percentage of the vendor worth of the item in question, believed to be roughly 25%. For low-level items, this isn’t as much of an issue as the fee is fairly small (and nobody bother

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