Remember when you were a kid and wished you could have a job where you played video games and did nothing else? Well, that probably didn't happen unless you're working in that industry, but now you can get a piece of the action with Diablo III's auction house.
The real money traded with this feature of the game will be a gamer's to keep. So theoretically you can play this for 24 hours a day and make some kind of profit, which just boggles my mind. Now unfortunately you don't really rake in the dough because it takes work to get the items that people want, and only rarer items will bring much in the way of profits, but the idea is phenomenal.
What's the downside? Well, none really, except that you can only trade on the auction house in your "home" region. No trading globally in either of the other two regions that you can play in. There's also no migrating items between regions, but that's not really a big deal. Blizzard does charge some fees for putting your items up:
$1 off the to if an item sells
15% transaction fee on stackable items
15% if you move funds to a third-party service like Paypal (there's no charge if you put the funds into your Battle.net account but you can only get Blizzard services and items that way)
But who really cares? You're making money playing a video game, and honestly, that's the bottom line for me. Making money playing a video game.
The real money traded with this feature of the game will be a gamer's to keep. So theoretically you can play this for 24 hours a day and make some kind of profit, which just boggles my mind. Now unfortunately you don't really rake in the dough because it takes work to get the items that people want, and only rarer items will bring much in the way of profits, but the idea is phenomenal.
What's the downside? Well, none really, except that you can only trade on the auction house in your "home" region. No trading globally in either of the other two regions that you can play in. There's also no migrating items between regions, but that's not really a big deal. Blizzard does charge some fees for putting your items up:
$1 off the to if an item sells
15% transaction fee on stackable items
15% if you move funds to a third-party service like Paypal (there's no charge if you put the funds into your Battle.net account but you can only get Blizzard services and items that way)
But who really cares? You're making money playing a video game, and honestly, that's the bottom line for me. Making money playing a video game.
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