Diablo 3 Uses In-Game and Real Life Money

[MiRai]

Interesting...

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...eal-Life-Money !

[jeepdriver]

was about to post this... LOL

[Shodokan]

looks like you can only spend the $ with blizzard that you earn from sales, but gives people the ability to buy the items if they so choose.

edit: nvm, didn't see the cashing out part with paypal/moneybookers or w/e.

[juneko]

Good grief! Everyone prepare for D3!!

[jeepdriver]

Yea I can see all the bot sites gettin ready for that one LOL Im curious to see how that pans out...its like blizz is initiating a gold standard for their virtual currency. Gonna keep an eye out for a curious economists report on that, might be a interesting read.

[Zub]

lol where do you fit the "Need Before Greed" button (or Diablo equivalent) in all that ?

[ILikeTwins]

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.

[Kicksome]

Man, I hope they bring this to Wow - multiboxing would make quite a bit of money. Farm a million gold and pay for your 10 wow subscriptions for a couple years.

[Starbuck_Jones]

It will be interesting to see how it works. If there is no item decay or strong drain on in game gold to keep it from inflating, then eventually it will all be for sale at a $0.05 buyout if that.

I predict it will be a sweat shop gold rush. Teams of players rushing to high levels and farming to sell. After a year or so once all the casuals have beat the game the rush will be over until an expansion set comes out.

[Malgor]

In DII Throne of Destruction, you could set up as many accounts as you wanted per for your one game purchase. I used these as mules to horde all my rare finds, gem banks, potion banks, etc.

I ended up buying a second game though so I could log on two accounts on two different computers to make trading easy so I didn't lose anything.

I hope they make a "shared bank" with D3.