I think it will just add a lot more liquidity to the trading market. Ultimately I dont' think anybody but dedicated farmers will cash out any sort of significant balance. Most of the real money is gonna eventually go to Blizzard in rake as people swap stuff around.

Like I would never buy itmes with real money, but if I found 3-4 item and sold them each for a pittance, I'd consider using the funds from those sales to buy an item, because ultimately it'd be like I traded those 3-4 items for the item I actually wanted.

gonna be hard to control myself when I end up broke on the auction and see that ridiculously perfect and amazingly rare item for a cheap $ price >.<

Yea I haven't decided whether I'm gonna spend any money yet. Not sure.

Blizz lets you have a few free auctions a week, so if you find some stuff you don't need that has value you can use that to sort of seed your account with money rather than depositing, that's what I plan on doing.

Of course that will probably take awhile, if you wanna pimp your guy out asap you'll need to be willing to buy stuff early, possibly way overpriced.

Within a few weeks of launch there will be guys decked out head to town in legendaries and awesome rares in Inferno of which every single one will be bought. There are people out there who have no problem at all with dropping a few hundo on digital items for their online characters.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4612389/Test-3_16_2012

Diablo 3 release announced : May 15, 2012

15th of may boys and girls

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/75...erver-1166678/

Adding Diablo 3 chat channels into the ventrilo server. Feel free to stop by and use it. Pre-emptive =p

IP: twoplustwo.typefrag.com
Port: 30358

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I'm stoked~!~~!!

I would say May qualifies as earlier than I expected.

It won't be there long if it's a good price, so you better keep your account funded.

The people that are going to make any money on the AH are the people who are going to camp it.

The reason that so many people made a lot of money on WoW auction houses (myself included) is because they were compartmentalized. LOTS of tiny little fish tanks where one guy could be the big fish.

In Diablo 3 though, we're all going to be put into a giant 3 million gallon aquarium, and there can really only be a small handful of sharks.

I think AH bots are inevitable, and it'll be hard to compete with them.

I'll certainly be willing to throw some money at it to test out the waters and see if there's any real money to be made.

I think a lot of people are thinking that there's no money to be made because items will be cheap. I think those people are very, very wrong.

It's simple supply/demand. If fantastic items are available for say, a dollar; the demand will be through the ROOF and a $1 price isn't sustainable unless gear drops are way out of whack. People are not going to grind the game for dozens of hours hoping for a piece of gear to drop when they could just buy the thing for a dollar on the AH. Prices will rise, and rise quickly until they hit a point where people think twice about it. Whether that's $5 or $10 or $50, we'll have to see. But if "top tier" items sell for $15-20, then there will be plenty of room for speculators to camp the AH looking for idiots who put their $20 item up for $2, and snatch it up.

I actually think Blizzard is going to regret this RMAH decision from a customer service standpoint. They are probably just confident that the extra income will be worth it.

Anddddd purchased.

I'm surprised they announced the release date only 2 months from now.

I am one of the people who think there will not be much money in the real money auction house but like you said it will all depend on supply and demand. Ultimately drop rates are going to determine the market.

Why do you think customer service is going to hate this idea?

Because it's not possible to have enough confirmation boxes for some people.

And Lord help them if they implement RMAH for Hardcore.