The removal of the Auction Houses was critical to ensure the game improves. No matter how fun the item hunt gets with Loot 2.0, if AH was to stay, the market would adjust to keep being more efficient than getting the gear yourself.
This will probably "help" the online black market being once again the best way to go for the best items, but the thing is, back in Diablo 2, it was a very thin minority that used d2jsp unlike the AH on Diablo 3.
While that is true, I think Blizzard found that the bots were trimming their margins so much that it wasn't worth the hassle anymore dealing with real money. They have to pay the CS and other fees. There's a lot of stuff they have to pay for just to let us buy and sell items for real money. So while it is indeed for the best of the game, it probably was not the only reason. They may have actually been losing money just to keep the RMAH.
Stock up on gold now, I have a feeling crafts and enchants won't be cheap in the expansion. With no AH to sell items for gold or buy gold, it will take a long time to farm gold. With that said, I'm going to stockpile as much as I can
Not saying this is going to happen, but what if they did a complete reset with RoS. Meaning a new ladder season at the start of the expansion. It would be the only way to give D3 a complete fresh start. So all that gold would be non-ladder, which isn't a bad thing, but everyone knows ladder is where it is at.
Well we can guess at what might happen, but I can tell you what will happen. You won't be able to buy gold anymore (except 3rd party), you won't be able to sell an item for millions of gold easily (3rd party isn't easy), and they have already said that enchantments will have a significant cost associated with them.
This also means, craft materials such as tomes of secret will be much harder to come by. Stockpile now if you don't want to be surprised.
I found something interesting in the new Terms of Service agreement.
With the announcement of the AH shutting down, you have 30 days from this day to get a refund for Diablo 3. Once you click the Accept button on the agreement, you cannot get the refund.
Stock up on gold now, I have a feeling crafts and enchants won't be cheap in the expansion. With no AH to sell items for gold or buy gold, it will take a long time to farm gold. With that said, I'm going to stockpile as much as I can
EDIT: I have to mention, MOST awesome items ingame in RoS are going to be soulbound so trading will just cut down in general.
Nope, with the removal of the AH there's no need for BoA anymore. Many people (including me and all of my friends) will not use any dodgy 3rd party trading sites. With the "in your face" trading system absent, I'm officially completely back to self-found, finally.
Yep, I can see them ultimately deciding to either making everything BoA or removing the AH. I'm glad they decided on the latter.
While that is true, I think Blizzard found that the bots were trimming their margins so much that it wasn't worth the hassle anymore dealing with real money. They have to pay the CS and other fees. There's a lot of stuff they have to pay for just to let us buy and sell items for real money. So while it is indeed for the best of the game, it probably was not the only reason. They may have actually been losing money just to keep the RMAH.
Well we can guess at what might happen, but I can tell you what will happen. You won't be able to buy gold anymore (except 3rd party), you won't be able to sell an item for millions of gold easily (3rd party isn't easy), and they have already said that enchantments will have a significant cost associated with them.
This also means, craft materials such as tomes of secret will be much harder to come by. Stockpile now if you don't want to be surprised.
With the announcement of the AH shutting down, you have 30 days from this day to get a refund for Diablo 3. Once you click the Accept button on the agreement, you cannot get the refund.
Yep, I can see them ultimately deciding to either making everything BoA or removing the AH. I'm glad they decided on the latter.
See "We're removing auction houses!", instantly check for April 1st date.
Smile, but remain silent due to lack of words to express happiness.
Instantly go to diablofans.com to make sure they know about this. Of course, this site is always on top of news
March 18th, must be the approximate release date of expansion.