Blizzard entertainment has included a real money auction house in its next action role playing game Diablo III. In this players will be able to buy and sell loot they find in the game.
For the first time in the game's series, Diablo III has come up with two versions of the auction house system which are gold-based auction house and real-money action house. In this auction house system, nominal transaction fee will be deducted from the seller if the item that has been put up on auction is sold.
A 15% transaction fee will be deducted from the sale price of an item that gets sold in the auction for the gold based auction house. However, in the real money auction house, the equipments or weapons put up on sale will have a fixed transaction fee that will be deducted from the total sale price.
"Our goal with all of our games is to ensure players have a highly enjoyable, rewarding, and secure experience. Acquiring items has always been an important part of the Diablo series, but the previous games have not had a robust, centralized system for facilitating trades, and as a result players have turned to inconvenient and potentially unsafe alternatives, such as third-party real-money-trading organizations," Blizzard entertainment writes in its FAQ page.
Diablo III fans will have to make their purchases through a registered form of payment to their Battle.net account and when they sale items in the real house auction house, they can choose to receive the payment through their Battle.net account or through approved third party payment service such as PayPal in regions where this facility is available.
For Diablo III players who are in the Battle.net account, you can have only $250 in the account and once that limit is reached, players will need to transfer the funds or spend the amount.
Whether players are waiting to buy gold or spend the money, the digital version of Diablo III will go live on May 15, and the retail version will launch on June 7.
