Diablo III's real-money auction house launches in North America

Im very interested to see how this goes. Im already a bit annoyed at the current state of the late game and fear they might have misbalanced inferno act2 onwards so badly on purpous to get people to spend money on the RMAH...

The fact you can't really finish the game through solo play as the items dropped aren't good enough in Act 1 to continue, means you need to farm enough money to buy a slightly better weapon or piece of armour, which for most people isn't an option thus meaning the RMAH becomes the option you have to take to finish the game properly.

Posted:11 months ago

Taken from http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/5055288/Patch_103_Design_Preview-06_06_2012

Blizzard appear to be addressing the item drops somewhat in Inferno, by giving a chance for higher 'item level' stuff to drop in the earlier acts of Inferno, rather than restricting all the best stuff until later on. It's a small chance, but there at least will be a chance of it dropping in patch 1.03.

They've also said the following regarding Inferno Act II onwards:

"Inferno balance right now has a difficulty gap in which Act I feels about right, but Act II feels like trying to bust through a brick wall. In patch 1.0.3 we’re going to be lowering that wall by adjusting the damage and health of monsters in Inferno Act II, III and IV."

Posted:11 months ago

I really hope, the dupe problems in Korea haven't appeared in the US. Otherwise some users of the rmah might get some headache. This thing is a beast ....

Posted:11 months ago