It will be interesting to see how Blizzard will deal with hackers. In WoW they hack your account to sell your stuff for gold and then sell the gold online. Now they can hack your account and sell all your gear for real life money in game. Worse yet they could potentially cause you to "buy" some junk item of theirs for alot of real life money. I hope that Blizzard will have safeguards in place to prevent large credit card transactions via the auction house.

I can see whey they are doing it ... lots of fees. They must have gotten tired of all these 3rd parties cashing in hehe. I am sure it won't be long before you see this same change in WoW.