Blizzard vs. Real Money Trading (RMT)

[Taem]

I found this link highly amusing.

http://daeity.blogspot.com/2011/08/blizzard-v-rmt.html

I'm still not "sold" on Diablo III, personally. I know many of you are excited for it, but I find myself leaning towards games like Guild Wars II and Torchlight II more. The whole Auction House fiasco turns me off, even though I understand Blizzard's actions from a corporate perspective.

I agree with you that Torchlihght 2 and Path of Exile will be taking my time away and I probably wont play D3 until a year or more after release, however the theory as to why Blizzard did the Auction House is sound:

1) By far the largest contributer to cheating was the monetary gain - this all but ensured bots would come out in D2 for item shops,
1B) Game goes fully online (nix cheating),
1C) Items are all handled through Blizzards Auction house (nix cheating, big sellers will pay taxes, Blizzard is no longer liable)

2) They [auction-houses] have proven to be very popular in WoW from what I understand
2B) People want what they don't have, so this is just another power-grab to keep peoples appetites wet (or addicted might be more appropriate)
2C) The average Joe can now have a safe place to trade other than D2JSP (Bliz takes another piece of the $pie$)

Every reason they have chosen to do this is clear as day.