(06-06-2012, 05:20 PM)RedRadical Wrote: I really think the AH needs some regulation, the inflation is out of control. Just like in real life, we got a few wealthy dikheads that think money (or gold in this case) grows on trees and they can charge w/e they want.
The AH will self-regulate. Blizzard doesn't need to step in unless someone's doing something obviously exploitative, and frankly, the ten-slot rule makes those things almost impossible to do in D3's AH, vs the WoW one where you could do stuff like that.
As in WoW, the gold AH has a few very simple rules:
1) If it sells, it wasn't overpriced. If it's overpriced, it won't sell, and that's a wasted slot for the seller in D3's AH.
2) If you don't like the price, farm it yourself
3) If you don't like someone undercutting you, fine, buy their stuff and reprice it, assuming their risk. There's no divine right to make X profit.
By rule 1, yes, they *can* charge whatever they want. The market will figure it out after a while, and when the RMAH comes up, it'll go differently, too.
--Mav