#0 - June 29, 2011, 8:48 a.m.
http://d3here.wordpress.com/
Guy is revealing some info about D3 and is answering peoples questions, could be a hoax but it does sound pretty genuine so far.
If this is real, holy crap.
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"No. The "auction house" is called the "market". I am unsure if the name is a placeholder. It functions differently to the WoW auction house. To access the market, you need to use the AMM (automated match-making) screen and select the "market". This automatically queues you (like War3 and SC2 AMM) and loads you into a game world that looks like a small "town-like" area with markets around. There are around 50 players in each market game (i think).The AMM matches you up with people who have similar quality/level items as you, though you can specify which item ranges you want to trade for.
There are no monsters or anything else in this game, only other players and NPC's. To "display" your items, you click on the NPC and place your items into an inventory. You can close it after your done and the items stay there, even persist into other games. On the other side of the screen, you can browse everyone's items who are in your game. Its fully catagorized, very much like in WoW. If your interested in an item you can offer them gold or even select an item(s) you have on display and offer them that, or a combination. This sends a notification to the other player that you placed an offer. They can accept this, or more often they can choose to "negotiate", this starts a one-on-one dialogue with the buyer and seller, and they negotiate the items just like in D2. This only applies to armor and weapons, gems, consumables and other items are not displayable. Though I have heard they are implementing something for those, possibly a wow-style auction-house in-game.
They have not yet implemented the feature to allow you to put your items directly in from Bnet, but its coming apparently."
