You Can Sell Your Diablo 3 Loot For Actual Money

Pentadact — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:41:26 +0000

I was at Blizzard last week to play a bit of Diablo 3, and find this out: it has an auction house where players can buy from and sell to each other for real money.

It’s both crazier and slightly less evil than it initially sounds: it’s not Blizzard selling this stuff, and while they take a transaction fee, it’s not proportional to the item value. They say they expect it to break even.

The crazier part is that you could actually make money from this system, with no risk: you get a few free listings a week, and you can use them to sell items you found for real money without even having given Blizzard your credit card.

Lots more details, screenshots and quotes from Blizzard in my piece on PC Gamer. I am broadly negative about it.

Update: I’m in a podcast with Graham and Tim discussing what we think of all this.

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Update: My preview of the Diablo 3 beta is also up now. The game itself is really, really good I’m afraid.

Knockback is spectacular: zombies are sent twirling through the air, limp limbs spinning, until they smack some pillar of scenery and crunch to the ground. In a crowd, doing that to half the enemies and hitting the rest hard enough to make them explode, the Barbarian gives melee its own slapstick magic.

Update: Now we’ve done a video where me, Tim and Graham talk you through what’s going on in the latest footage.

Diablo 3 – Tom Francis Regrets This Already

You Can Sell Your Diablo 3 Loot For Actual Money