How about using the money from your sold items to buy things? Or, like everyone else are you just assuming that the only purpose of the rmah is to cash out on every sale?

Considering they came up with this idea because of a 3rd party site (d2jsp), I'm pretty sure they've considered it.

Then don't ever cash out, and just use the balance from selling items to fund the characters you have?

The problem is what's already been expressed in this article. People see 30% and they think "1/3rd" when in actuality it's much closer to "1/4th."

Still, it's pretty big news, and deserved a mention in the article.

Which is exactly my point. People are coming at this from an angle of pure ignorance, and short of being part of the "scene" in the first place, or someone writing a very lengthy article on it, it will remain pure ignorance and complaints about the RMAH are just uninformed nonsense.

Also, the bigger news of the day is that the game isn't launching with the Real money Auction House, but only launching with the gold AH.

Unfortunately, in games like this a lot of character builds are item-reliant, and a lot of items are so super rare that you could never hope to get them yourself, even if you can get other super rare items.

If you played Diablo 2, you would realize it's just blizzard integrating the insanely popular third party website, d2jsp, into the game for the purpose of facilitating commerce.

I think it's funny that people think the "purpose" of the Real money auction house (RMAH) is for everyone to "cash out" all the time. The purpose is to replace d2jsp and the FG standard that ran diablo 2. The RMAH is just a centralized, secure way for players to use real cash as a currency in the game, to ensure…

No. People wont. The time it takes to trade an item is insane. Anyone who played Diablo 2 from 2005-2008 will understand the revolution that d2jsp and Forum Gold was.

Actually, Doom 3 pretty much blatantly took the story from Half-Life.

God I dread the day Steam goes public...

I think they group SEA with the US because of Aus and NZ.

It's actually less than 30% when "cashing out" on commodities (27.25%), and it kind of has to be that way, otherwise people would have avoided the transaction fee of selling items on the RMAH in general, which would have meant that people would have had a hard time buying the items they want for small transactions.

It's actually 15% and then 15%, which is less than 30%... And that's only if you try to avoid the transaction fee on the real money auction house by selling all of your items for gold, and then trying to sell all the gold on the cash auction house.

The only news here is that commodities are being charged in scaled manner on the Gold AH as well as the RMAH, which is sort of necessary to avoid the potentially exploitation avoiding the "withdrawal" fee per item, which would be to sell all of your high quality items on the Gold AH, and then sell the stack of gold…

You don't remember the gratuitous intro video that does it's best to not show nipple? Didn't see any of the "amazing chest ahead" messages before the boss gate?

You know, a lot of stories / games are considered much better if they don't blatantly explain to you why good is good or evil is evil.

Well, the Boss fights in DXHR were pretty dumb. I'll concede that much.