Diablo III Auction House Update - No RMAH For One Week Post Launch
Along with Global Play, Blizzard has just updated their site with new info on the RMAH.
Originally Posted by Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Want to know more about Diablo III's new auction house feature? We've just updated the Diablo III web site with a comprehensive Auction House guide that walks you through the ins and outs of Diablo III's in-game item marketplace, including details on buying and selling, a breakdown of how the real-money auction house works (in regions where available), and more. You'll also find some important information on Battle.net account-security requirements that players interested in using the real-money auction house will need to know about.
The gold-based auction house opens its doors worldwide on May 15 with the launch of Diablo III, and we plan to bring the real-money auction house online approximately one week after that. This is a new service that includes lots of complex elements, so we are going to take a little extra time to ensure the game gets off to a good start before we flip the switch and open the real-money auction house for business.
For more information, head to the freshly minted Diablo III Auction House website, or check out the updated Auction House FAQ.
The gold-based auction house opens its doors worldwide on May 15 with the launch of Diablo III, and we plan to bring the real-money auction house online approximately one week after that. This is a new service that includes lots of complex elements, so we are going to take a little extra time to ensure the game gets off to a good start before we flip the switch and open the real-money auction house for business.
For more information, head to the freshly minted Diablo III Auction House website, or check out the updated Auction House FAQ.
Introducing Global Play for Diablo III
Blizzard has just posted some more info on the 'Global Play' feature of Diablo III
Originally Posted by Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Want to take on the hordes of the Burning Hells with a friend from halfway around the world? In Diablo® III, you'll be able to play on game servers in regions outside your own, with a few restrictions, using Battle.net®'s new Global Play functionality. Here's how it works....
Diablo III's global game servers are grouped into three distinct game regions:
Note that characters, items, and friends lists do not transfer across regions. Playing on a different region's servers means you'll be creating characters and friends lists specifically for that region and you'll be accessing the gold-based auction house for that region.
In addition, players will only have access to the real-money auction house (where applicable) when playing in their "home" game region. That means that, for characters outside of your home region, items cannot be bought or sold in any real-money auction house. The focus of Global Play is simply to give you the ability to play Diablo III together with your friends in any region.
For more information on Global Play in Diablo III, see the FAQ.
Diablo III's global game servers are grouped into three distinct game regions:
- The Americas - For players in the US, Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.
- Europe - For players in the European Union, Eastern Europe, Russia, Africa, and Middle Eastern countries such as Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
- Asia - For players in South Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Note that characters, items, and friends lists do not transfer across regions. Playing on a different region's servers means you'll be creating characters and friends lists specifically for that region and you'll be accessing the gold-based auction house for that region.
In addition, players will only have access to the real-money auction house (where applicable) when playing in their "home" game region. That means that, for characters outside of your home region, items cannot be bought or sold in any real-money auction house. The focus of Global Play is simply to give you the ability to play Diablo III together with your friends in any region.
For more information on Global Play in Diablo III, see the FAQ.
I'm assuming that since blizzard is taking 15%, they are eating the paypal fees. IE they are depositing more money into your account so that if you have "14.89 dollars" in your battle.net account, you'll see "14.89 dollars" in your paypal account. If, for nothing else, to avoid the customer service headache from people who don't understand paypal fees.
Otherwise, there is no reason at all to take a 15% cut.
On the flipside, this 15% covers deposits -into- your battle.net account, right? Cuz if you fund $200 to blizzard via paypal, I'm assuming they aren't putting $195 into your account because of fees.
One can only hope blizzard would be so nice to do this.
You do realize that your bnet location synchronizes when you log in right? Good luck proving to them you are a US citizen. You don't think they are smart enough to realize thousands of people with American addresses have IP addresses from China? So to answer your question, no, they are not capable.
"any proceeds from the sale of items in the real-money auction house that have been sent to the player’s Battle.net Balance will not be transferrable to the third-party payment service account."
It looks like premium items will be up on the gold AH:
"In the gold-based auction house, the minimum you can list an item for is 100 gold, and the maximum is 100,000,000,000 gold.
In the real-money auction house, the minimum you can list an item for is $1.25 USD (or equivalent local currency). The maximum you can set is $250 USD."
PLUS
Or you can stfu.... No one NEEDs more than 10 characters... and if they do... its likely blizz will expand the cap come the xpac.
Yep... its
Blizzard (all transactions):
$1.00 Fee for Items
15% for commodities
Paypal (only on cashout)
15% on all
So a $10.00 sale would be: 10-1=9*0.85 = 7.65 in your account for cashout, or $9.00 bnet balance.
I have the math for US scenarios on page 2; just need to swap out your countries paypal fees to get ideas of how it's going to work.
In fact the only things one needs is air, food, water and sleep. Does that mean anything beyond that should be severely restricted by law? Nopes, didn't think so. Yeah I don't need to have 10 characters at the same time, I could just delete each one after I'm done with it. Just as I'm sure you'd be more than willing to wipe out all your scores and KD ratios and achievements and replays in other games if the game forced you to. Does that make a good game or a convenient and user-friendly system? Fuck no! Even more apalling is the fact that the system introduced in D3 is an all around downgrade from what we had in D2 (always online what? character limit who?) If you really value your gaming time so much that, after spending countless hours beating the game with a character on Inferno and getting that great gear and titles and stuff, you'd be happy to just delete the characters you so invested into then I guess you have way too much free time on your hands. Not to mention the fact that you seem to have a particularly nasty case of lack of understanding for the needs of others. That you don't want or need something doesn't mean others don't. The fact that your imagination is too limited to comprehend such situations is your own problem, and renders your opinion worthless.
Yea saw that now. Well, is there any cut outs for merging Paypal with Blizzard account atm? or just when i want to withdraw from paypal to my bank account?
Thanks.
I've been reading a bit on this today.
It seems that from what Bashiok says, there will ONLY be the 15% transfer fee, and no addtional X% + X paypal flat rate. Furthermore, all transactions will either go to your battle net bucks account or paypal (possibly amazon or other varations?). In doing so, your battle bucks are going to remain just that -- battle bucks. You can't remove that money from your account ever. You have to apparently spend it on D3 items, or other blizzard products.
I wanted to know what the actual profit margin would be on each type of transaction (Equip and Commodities)
So I made an excel sheet and ran the numbers.
Equipment at the minimum sale price of 1.25 comes out to just 21 cents profit
17% profit margin
at the maximum sale price of 250 you cash out with 211.65
85% profit margin
you will have a PM of 72% between 6.66 and 6.67 USD
Commodities on the other hand have a consistent 72% margin
1.25 minimum sale becomes 90 cents profit
250 max sale becomes 180.63
What does this mean?
If your items aren't worth 6.66 consider trading down for commodities as the Blizz rake won't hurt you as bad with fees..
On the other hand, if you have high end commodities > 6.66 consider trading for equipment then placing that on RMAH.
That my friends is the fulcrum. 6.66
EDIT: my table didn't display like in the preview. I'll make a Google doc later
http://twitter.com/#!/Bashiok/statuses/197438027415556096
if bids bring it higher
Some will, but I won't be among those. It's not a race and I'd rather play on a character that's for keeps.
https://twitter.com/#!/Bashiok/status/197547112462958592
It looks like he took back what was said earlier
yeah, I should have updated that here. I posted it elsewhere tho