Blizzard reveals Real Money Auction House Fees

[Qitz]

I think this is the ultimate test of stupidity on gamers. If a player is willing to pay $250 for an in-game item, then they deserve to have their money suckled from them.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

That would be an interesting statistic to see, what the average transaction on the AH was. I would hope it was only $10 or so but you never know how nuts people are willing to get over virtual items. Specially with Blizzard, just look at their store and the amount of cash they print with the virtual pets / mounts.

 

[Scow2]

Well... on the bright side, the In-game currency's going to have value again!

 

[poiuppx]

Already was of the mind to skip D3. The more I learn about these... 'fun'... elements, the more I'm convinced it's going to go from a 'skip till there's a nice sale or some such' to 'How much was a preorder for Torchlight 2 again?' situation.

 

[Bad Jim]

If they had made it more like 3-7% that would be acceptable, but you're right. At this pricing it might drive people to go to the black market and get scammed out of their money anyway.

Well real auction houses typically take about 15%. You can sell your things without them, without even doing anything illegal or breaking a EULA, yet they are still in business.

If I, during my time playing D3, can make enough back to pay for the game via this system.. I'll be happy.

I'm looking forward to having a use for the many items I'll see but never want to use.

You're dreaming. Only a small minority of players will buy stuff, everyone else will be selling. It doesn't matter what items are in the game or how rare they are, the buyers will not spend enough for the average player to make $60 back, or even $5 back. $5 will be your whole account after playing for a year.

But it is arguably a good thing. It puts the professional gold sellers out of business. So much less botting, account hacking, credit fraud and spambots.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Huh. I didn't realize you could earn real money from the Diablo 3 AH. I thought you could only earn money to be put toward things in the Blizzard store.

So... if you can actually earn spending money from this game, I wonder if it's considered taxable income...

If it is, I can only imagine the RAAAAAGE from the 12-year old players' parents when they get bumped up to a new tax bracket. Or audited.

 

[Baldr]

Here the clarification as some people are still confused on the RMAH:
No Listing Fee - Auction are limited to 10 active(to keep bots and farmers from profiting much.)
Items: $1 Fee after sale (Unknown minimum listing price)
Commodities: 15% Fee of Final Price (Unknown minimum listing price)

All sales on the RMAH go into the sellers Battle.net account.
To transfer money from Battle.net to Paypal or Bank Account cost 15% of the amount transferred.

Unknown(Probably no fee) to transfer money from Paypal or Bank Account to Battle.net account.

 

[F4LL3N]

Diablo is all about finding awesome loot, at least for me. Anyone who uses this will just be ruining the game for themselves by paying for a major part of the gameplay. Go ahead.