What are the implications of a real-dollar auction house?

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8-02-2011 @ 12:19PM

Puntable said...

It doesn't really matter, since you can also buy and sell gold for real money in the auction house. I'm not sure how easy it will be to get gold in Diablo3 (if killing a mob drops gold or not), but I expect that gold will be so de-valued to be practically worthless, because who would want gold when they can sell their loot for dollars instead?

At any rate, it's genius, as an example of "If you can't beat them, join them". As long as "Chinese gold farmers" (I hate that term) are making transactions through the Auction House, Blizzard gets a cut.

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