to start with, I'm a huge fan of diablo, the thing is why blizzard don't let the game to be blizzard-it-run-shop?
Because D2 had a very large black market and Blizzard is trying to protect their customers. People would have sold items with or without the RMAH, so they might as well give them a safe place to do it.
Why would you want a shop run by Blizzard? That would change the entire game, virtually ruining the entire player-based-economy.
Going to to take a guess but did you mean, "What is stopping blizzard from selling items in the RMAH?"Originally Posted by Reuben
For this one it'd be reputation. It would destroy Blizzard's credibility if they were ever caught selling items in the RMAH and the back lash would be tremendous. They'll make enough money from transactions alone and won't need to supplement it with setting up an item shop.
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tks, got it
What's stopping them from selling items on the RMAH is the same thing that's stopping Blizzard employees to dupe items and the same thing that is stopping Blizzard from shutting down (or greatly reducing the quality and maintenance of) the b.net servers once they stop selling the game. They have a reputation to keep!
actually I suppose why not having a Blizzard item-shop is bad for the game: It also opens up some fairly big loopholes in the system. A seller could, for example, use bids from alternate accounts to force prospective buyers into an artificial bidding war and drive the cost up above reasonable market value. A dedicate group could also work to corner the market on some rarer, more valuable items, then use their monopoly to drive up prices. I have the utmost faith that Blizzard will work hard to diminish this sort of behavior, but it seems a bit silly to spend so much time regulating the system when they could save themselves and the players a lot of trouble by simply offering an static alternative to the auction house. I find this site http://www.Allcdkey.com/Diablo-III-1075.html funny!
Last edited by Reuben; 23-04-2012 at 08:54.
people will only pay what theyre willing to pay, artificial bidding wars trick no one, except the people who use them... into wasting everyones time. the 15% cut blizzard is taking will deter these shenanigans, nuke daytraders as well, something will need to be a pretty dramatically lowballed for it to be scooped up and relisted.
Sellers trying to bid up their own auctions will not last very long. First of all, most people use the buy now feature, so bidding won't even be an issue in most cases. 2ndly the fees you would pay from winning your own auction would kill the profit from the few times it did work, not to mention the added cost of an extra account. Cornering the market and price fixing aren't going to happen just due to the size of the diablo system of economy, you're not competing with a few thousand(at best) on a WoW server, you are in there with the millions and millions in the region you play on. WoW tactics won't work on that scale, that's what is so exciting. We have to start from scratch and find all new strategies. So don't worry about prices being too high. If anything I worry about the prices becoming so low that the economy becomes mostly worthless and no one can make any money.
You mean it'll become so competitive that traders won't be able to make money, only the farmers will. Even though I would love to make some money off of people's stupidity on the RMAH, for the better of the game I hope the market will be competitive enough that such things won't be possible. Then it's only the Chinese (and Taiwanese?) that will actually play this game for a living, and that is if they don't get blocked/banned.
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