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When Diablo 3 launches, players will be able to buy and sell any and every item in the game through real money auction houses.
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It was kind of a pain in the ass. Now you'll just be in a D3 game, click the "auction house button", search for items, and then click "buy it now!" only to have the item immediately dropped in your inventory.
Written another way by PC Gamer:
"I have a different concern. To me, the pleasure of Diablo is finding these items – that nerdy thrill of seeing some gold letters amongst the loot that twirls out of a dying boss. Better still, of finding a randomly generated weapon whose stats put my current kit to shame.
I don’t mind that I’ll be able to sell that for real money in Diablo 3, but I mind that I could have just bought it in the first place. Not for some prohibitively huge some of in-game gold, but the spare change in my wallet.
I asked Jay if they saw this as a problem. “That’s not anything different than Diablo 2,” he says. “The best items that came through that game did come through trading, and came through interacting with other players.”
True for some, I guess, but one of the reasons they’re doing this is that there weren’t convenient ways to find and trade items in the previous Diablo games, and no safe way to do so for real money. By making it easy, legal and searchable, Blizzard have put the boring option temptingly close to the long and rewarding search for great loot. I don’t have to take it, of course, but I worry the search will seem that much longer and less rewarding with a Buy It Now button nestled right next to it."
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