If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: A Defense of Diablo III Auction House

Seems like the biggest issue is that the folks who want to spend hundreds of hours grinding and power leveling want to maintain the 'bragging rights' of having earned it themselves -- all that blizzard would really have do to appease them is bring in trophies for accomplishments like having power leveled yourself or make items have an authenticity sticker if you earned is that it loses if it's sold or traded - that way 'bragging rights' remain intact...

I don't see the point of spending real money for items that exist only in a game. Might as well throw your money out the window.

@ OP - Also, they said that there would also be an auction house that uses the in game currency, not real money. So assuming that gets enough use, people who don't want to use real money can avoid it.

Or... they could have made all the items bind on pickup or transferable only through the in game auction house... sux for friends... though they can always be quick at the auctions... Here they are putting a free-to-play structure in a paid game... it's just a money grab...at least there's no monthly subscription...

I'm inclined to agree. It's a much better solution to the rampant third party items sites than it could be.

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This is great. I spend decades of my life becoming educated and holding down a good paying job so I can easily spend some money to buy items only to have some unemployed kid spend a month or two powerleveling and getting the same items for free. Frign Communists can bite me now! =)

This is a really tough issue. On the one hand I strongly agree with "KylieDog"....that spending 100+ hours attaining the best end game stuff for yourself, really is cheapened when someone can simply browse a selection of end game characters and pay for it. I know that one could argue, just ignore them and take the pride in your own work/game....but it's true. There's always that nagging feeling of those Mother Fu@kers bought that sh!t, instead of earning it. And you can tell who bought their gear or character, cause they are always running around asking questions about the most basic of things that if you played for 100+ hours and earned it, you would know the answer to that question. While this may be a way to keep the third party from doing it, it doesn't make it right. If the third party people are wrong for doing it, then so is blizzard/activision. Plain and simple. And we all know the money grubbing track record of Blizzard/Activision. If they spent as much time solving the "gold/character selling" problem as they did in closed and open beta phases, the problem would be solved by now. Instead Big corps do what big corps do....find a way to make more money. I can't say I HATE this idea, but I certainly don't love it.

so "insert rich gamer here" will get the game, then the 2nd day have the best weapon/armor, why not sell power leveling also? better yet, can i pay blizzard to play the game for me? its stupid if you think about it.

"All in all, this appears to be just another example of a game developer listening to what the gamers really want and then giving it to them. Bravo, Blizzard. Bravo." No, it really isn't, it is listening to the lazy ass people who cannot be bothered playing the game normally and ruining it for everyone else. Selling this stuff jobs robs and sense of worth in earning it yourself. Why would I spent 100+ hours leveling a character and farming the best items when joe next door could spend 2 hours at a real job and just buy the character and items. Those 100 hours spent aren't worth it when grinding items isn't really much fun but you do it for the end result that will make you one of a few. Not anymore.

I wont use it, not unless there is a way to just buy the stuff with gold instead of cash. But its a great idea and better than helping out some cheap site that leeches of there work.

I am looking forward to the auction house will solve a lot of problems and safe time.

This is going to be a very delicious game for the PC gamers.