No Real Money Auction House at launch
Posted 1 May 2012 by Rushster
Blizzard dropped a small bomb today that only the Gold AH will be available at launch. The Real Money Auction House will not be available at launch but be online approximately one week after that. Blizzard also put up a comprehensive Auction House guide, with all the information you ever wanted to know about the AH and how to use it.
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.
No idea atm, how this fees work and how many cuts dwon from blii and paypal…totaly conusing for me
The best money would have been made at the first week. What next? Only Barbarian class available at launch?
Well there goes my plan to hit the RMAH up on day one and deck my character out in superior whites. GG BLIZZ
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Kind of a lot of whining over a one week delay. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
Big client/server programs are a beast to develop & debug. Trying to ensure there are no loopholes for hackers/crooks is even worse. It makes sense to ensure the basic stuff is working and stable before bringing in the real money stuff.
Looks like I’ll be stocking up on gold and everything else I can get my hands on for the first week.
RMAH goes live then sell sell sell.
Just 1 week, I’m okey with it.
this 15% transfer charge is absolutely outrageous! 5% is considered to be on the high side for e-commerce transaction fees…
This will cause one of two things, either the really good items will be on 3rd party auction sites or people will be selling battle.net accounts with huge battle.net balance in them.
Somewhere, in Activisions deepest halls, Bobby is beating a Jay Wilson doll
this $250 maximum listing price will also force the best items to be listed on 3rd party sites…
You think high end items will go for that much? I could not justify spending $5 on an item. I can’t imagine spending $300. And I have a decent job.
Are you sure its a max listing price? Because from my understanding your battle.net account can hold $250 max. But you can still sell items for higher prices and decide to move the money made directly to your paypay account. Also, I believe that you cannot transfer battle.net cash directly to Paypay. I think you can only buy Bliz items or RMAH items with that.
According to this
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-auction-house-functionality#q18
The maximum price an item can be sold for is 250$. But the maximum price of an item in the GAH is 100 billion, so maybe the really high-end items will end up being sold for (a lot of) gold.
Its the cap as you can’t use money not in your battle.net account to buy stuff, so where’s the extra money going to come from?
If an item is worth more than 250 units the only way to do it is to sell it for gold at the current gold:bucks conversion rate then sell the gold on the RMAH.