#1 - Nov. 13, 2013, 10:24 a.m.
From a Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview regarding the upcoming Diablo 3 expansion:
Playing auction houses can be fun – that whole sort of market-cornering aspect can be a cool kind of minigame – but it took away from the core fantasy of what our game is. It’s about killing monsters.
I can’t help but feel that ArenaNet could learn a lot from that kind of thinking.
This is a huge change to Diablo 3. It’s tied in to real-world money changing hands, and Blizzard have been receiving a percentage of every trade made. They are losing a source of revenue by doing this, but they realised that in the long run it was hurting the game rather than helping it.
