Official Blizzard Quote:
Diablo III Beta Patch 3 – v.0.3.0.7338
General
- Public Games are once again available to players. To help us test this automated matchmaking feature, click on "Campaign" and then select "Public Games."The number of characters playing the selected public quest will now display in the Public Games menu.
- The Diablo III Auction House is coming soon!
- During the beta launch of this system, the following features will be enabled:Gold-based equipment exchange
- Bid, auto-bid, and buyout functionality
- Slot-based search filters
- Toast notifications to track auction progress
- The ability to put items up for auction directly from the shared stash
To read up on the second patch, see here.
Thanks for the post
This bug was the last thing (that we) knew that was keeping them from closed beta. It will be tonight or tomorrow hands down.
You don't think they want to test the auction house with a smaller sample size (F&F) before a huge group of beta testers? Monday for closed beta.
If public games bugs are fixed then closed beta shouldn't be too far away.
Looking at the bugs seems like the game is more or less ready (just some minor detail) while connections/servers is (as expected) the real deal right now.
Closed beta will stress the infrastracture even more (AH in primis) and will also allow Blizzard to try out many different kinds of hardware, which should let them refine the game even more and define system requirements.
After that.....