Ever since the release of Diablo 2 in 2000 and the Lord of Destruction expansion in 2001, fans have been anticipating the release of Diablo 3. Hell, even I have been waiting years for it to come out. But there is one thing that will make most players depressed: the real world auction house.
This auction house is going to use real world money; all of those Asian Gold Farmers from World of Warcraft will change to Asian Item Farmers for Diablo 3 - they won't ever be required to pay for a monthly subscription.
Back in Diablo 2, if you got a unique item, like a perfect Shako or make a perfect BotD, you could always trade it for other items. Now, in Diablo 3, people will be more inclined to put the item up on the real world auction house because, why the hell not? Also, when trading items, people will look at the real money value to gauge whether the trade is fair or not, even if the real price of some item at the time is higher or lower than it normally is.
This will cause players to become independent: to get items you want, you'll have to either find a generous person who doesn't care about money (good luck with that), or a friend who knows they can trust you.
Call me cynical and crazy, but I'm just going off of how humans are - greedy. We'll all put our rare / set / unique items on the Real Money Transaction Auction House in hopes to earn a bit of side cash while playing a video game. Undercutting in World of Warcraft isn't that big of a deal for most people, it's just in-game gold; you can always go and do daily quests or farm mobs for more gold if you really need it. But, when it comes to real money, people will become upset when others undercut their item by a mere penny.
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