Don’t quit your jobs just yet in hopes of making the big times selling items on the Diablo III Auction House. It seems that Blizzard has postponed the launch indefinitely until they resolve some other issues and said that the launch date has moved “outside the previously estimated May timeframe.”
“In light of the post-launch obstacles we’ve encountered, we have made the decision to move the launch of the real-money auction house beyond the previously estimated May time frame. As we mentioned in our original announcement, our goal has always been to ensure everyone has the smoothest experience possible when the real-money auction house launches, and we need a bit more time to iron out the existing general stability and gameplay issues before that feature goes live. While we don’t have a new launch date to share just yet, we’ll have more information soon.”
What does that mean? Well it means they haven’t canceled the plans of adding it, but simply have to make sure that people’s issues with getting accounts hacked, game crashes, and general server stability are worked out first.
They noted that one issue was that many Diablo III forum users have been complaining loudly about hackers breaking into their accounts and stealing accumulated items and gold, a problem that would seem crucial to fix before those items start having a real-world value through the auction house. In my opinion the easiest thing to do would be requiring an authenticator for use of the Real-Money Auction House. This would solve nearly all the accounts being stolen and losing items that have a real-world value.
So don’t quit your job just yet – wait just a little while longer.
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