Blizzard closes down Diablo 3 Auction House

They just need to remove the requirement to play online now.

Hahaha Perfect timing! The very next post STILL complaining about it.

Respect. First for me, seeing them choose something that helps a game but hurts their pocket. Nice.

Very happy to hear this.

I'm gonna miss the buying/selling/gearing tbh. -.- Trading will ofc take it's place, but it will invite scamming and the inefficient advertising we had in d2. D2jsp are probably happy though, their trading forum usage will increase ten-fold!

RMAH did ruin the game a bit, I can agree that. HOWEVER.

Auction house helped people to get an honest price on items, it helped to add more variation to items and made it easier to buy/sell/trade whatever you want.

Removing this feature will just send us back to the stone age, help players scam others with overpriced items also let the chinese run over the market.

I hope you guys are satisfied.

Finally, will be able to enjoy the game again.

Oh god please let this mean Offline mode.

All I ever did was cheese difficulty by using AH to get a better weapon every 5-10 levels with the best gem available.

Sure I still died because my other stats (mainly HP) suffered but there's just no reason not to rush to 60/Inferno and grind for gear.

Wow, never would have expected this. Props to blizzard for realizing their mistakes with D3 and adapting. RoS is looking pretty damn awesome, this announcement alone will bring lots of people back.

Wow, this is like literally taken from my mouth. I wrote exactly those words in my message to Blizzard during their poll on the future of Diablo 3: AH undermines the purpose of the game; to kill monsters and get loot. Happy days. Shame that they are going to remove something that theyv'e spent a long time on implementing and that worked so fluently. But this is for the better of the game.

This is extremely stupid, the AH is incredibly useful for anyone that wants to play the game for more than 15 minutes a week. I don't get why people opposed the AH, except for the idiotic notion that without an AH they could make the drop rate on good items much higher. So now if you want to be competitive you will have to use 3rd party sites/forums for trading?

Ok well now I cant wait to see what loot 2.0 is all about. If done right it can be the LoD of D3.

Terrible decision. Oh well, the game was fun while it lasted, but I will not tediously grind my way through inferno on all my chars until I finally have gear that is semi-decent enough to let me play on MP1 and then do it all over again so I can play on MP2 ...

What's stopping someone on the last day from buying 100 billion gold, and then having all that gold for the expansion while everyone else has to farm it? With Loot 2.0, the economy will be reset. This is the path I see most people taking unless they do something to prevent it. Will gold no longer be the economy after this happens? My guess is it could be gems or something else. They could also just make gold drops much higher to make it so 100b isn't much gold in the expansion.

I fully support this as long as they prevent that. Otherwise, people who just buy tons of gold right before the expansion will ultimately be the ones buying everything people want, making trade prices not reasonable for any "legit" players.

Too little too late for me. I won't buy an expansion just to see if it doesn't suck still.

Looks like I'll have to get on leveling my Monk and Wizard sooner than I expected to get a set that will allow me to make it through MP5+ on Inferno...

The true reason why loot2.0 is not up right now!

This game has life after all. I have never been more excited for an announcement in my fucking life no joke. Blizzard finally gets it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REAPER OF SOULS LETS GO

Hmm... Maybe this will cut down on the 10+ realid invites from gold spammers I get a day!

Yippee kai yay!!!

Git along, little doggies.

I think the lack of actual revenue from the RMAH coupled with the tremendous feedback from console gamers about "aahhh, this is how D3 was supposed to be" sorta made this a slam dunk.

I mean, the Console's been out how long before they made this announcement? Not very long at all.

The data had to be overwhelmingly in this direction for Blizz to close the AH for good considering not only how much work they put into it, but how they delayed the launch, then delayed the AH, then pushed back against the tremendous backlash they received.

I love this decision. But man alive, when looking at the data, it musta been one of those "cats and dogs agree, even zombies and brains agree..."