World of Warcraft™

Ok, I have read enough posts to assume nobody has pointed this out yet. Lets not forget that this game is FREE from supscription. I ll say it again FREE. After you spend the 60 dollars or so that s it. I want each one of you to multiply the amount of months you spend playing wow by the cost per month. Some of you have been playing since the begining so im sure your total is in the thousands of dollars range. D3 is free to play. Blizzard has found a way for others to pay for your supscription. I think this is a good thing. So if you don't want to pay to play then don't. Everyone who is a serious player will EVENTUALLY get to the uber geared top level who is viable in inferno. The only difference is those willing to pay for your subscription might get there just slightly faster and this is ok. On top of that blizzard is giving the average player an oppertunity to take advantage of this situation and make a little extra cash on the side. Hey, if you want to avoid pay pale all together just link the cash to your blizzard account and use the money to pay for WOW or buy your special companions or mounts or T shirts or whatever you want to buy with it, or cash it out its up to you. I think its great that people who just want to take shortcuts in the game are paying for your supscription to D3. Remember it costs money to keep these servers running, to keep the game blanced between the classes, and to remove bugs, add more UI features. I remember the infamous bug which let players stack loaded bags within bags! wow what an oversight that was! Therefore it isn't free for blizzard either. Besides it's comming in about 4 more days from this post and I am so excited for this game to come out you wouln't believe it. Its been too long blizzard! PS. thanks for the free game!

so u have to have paypal just to play or buy things? so i couldnt even buy a potion without paypal yea i dont think ill be playing it now

Won't Diablo 3 be plagued with bots farming away for items to put on the AH? There are bots in World of Warcraft, how do you expect bots from "mfing" in Diablo 3? - I don't think I like this real currency idea.

This is great. I may switch my wow subscription to paypal cause the Diablo 3 RMAH should help it pay for itself.

my biggest problem of this model what is going to stop people from ninja looting items and keeping it for themselves to sell on the auction house. now they have more reason to take items especially if its not for their character....

Yay! Finally :D

:)

Blizzard, the option is a solid one.
If I want to splurge on something, I can. If I want to earn it myself, I can.

Plus, this will help to keep Diablo III free and supported for years to come.

Kudos!

all i see is posts abut the RMAH, if you don't like it. don't use it. no ones forcing you to buy into anything and for that matter. if you hate blizzard enough to complain about everything they do STOP BUYING THEIR GAMES. do you think they honestly care about a few bucks in transactions from accounts? THEY HAVE OVER 2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS TO WOW ALONE, and probably 3x that many people that are going to buy their 60 dollar Diablo 3 when it comes out.

I'm not happy with Paypal. Will there be any other option for payment?

yay! this is the best idea ever. real money transfers from account to account.
no more getting stiffed, among other benefits like getting paid for your play :) good job blizz!

Might be to replace the goldsellers but i still think its the dumbest thing i heared.

This will upset a lot of people who aren't going to risk buying gold in WoW but really want to, while in Diablo you can.

Solution? Copy and paste into WoW, problem solved.

Balance? That's an illusion. Already in Diablo the people well off financially will have a huge advantage over those working minimum wage or maybe a bit higher.

I have two polar views on this. I actually deleted this post a minute ago and am changing it now that I found the change with paypal where as before I thought it was just another way to fund the credits to battle.net, but now that you can actually "cash-out" with real money... you better believe I will be grinding a character to max level and subsequently grind gear and gold non-stop and then selling the gear for cash only.

You see the problem there? It's people like me who let greed take over and capitalize on an opportunity such as this to supplement my income.

That's the conflict I have with myself, is that I know everyone's income is not the same and I want to help as many people as I can, but if it's over the internet with no personal attachment to who you're selling to then it becomes a lot easier to let your more primitive instincts take over.

You all know where this is going. It will be just like how the government is now, the rich working behind the scenes to control everything, whether you're intelligent or even perceptive enough to realize it.

In conclusion, good idea or bad idea for you the consumer? Great idea if you like money and don't care about balance between the large gap of income between the well off and worse off player base, horrible idea if you care about balance and keeping your characters' strengths limited to what you achieve in game (not in your bank account)... you know... sort of what they try to do with WoW right now...?

I love how they made the real-money auction house mandatory. I don't understand why people are so upset about being forced to participate in this entirely obligatory service.

I for one am extremely excited that, we have another reason to help out the gold farmers, cause there isn't enough of a problem now. They can't stop what's out there now, and this isn't going to make it any better. As far as it being a good idea, yup sure is for Blizzard. If you want a company to know how to make money, they are them.

Using "Paypal" is a very bad idea, Cashing out your spoils if unlucky will result in your account being frozen and all funds unavailable for 6-8 months+ happened to me selling things on Ebay i called Paypal and was told "my business model did not match theirs" no further explanation of this "Phantom Business model" was given believe me this is not an isolated issue i researched the topic and paypal have done this to thousands of people worldwide netting millions of dollars from unclaimed forgotten frozen accounts, if you are going to trade for real money be very careful using Paypal, I would sincerely hope Blizzard are aware of this and have a "Business model" to ram down Paypal's throats if they ever try to pull this on a Diablo 3 user

P.S dont mean to rant on just warning others

This is incredibly dumb... Just looking at all you people saying this is a good ideas gear shows about how good you are at games in the first place. Lets be honest you are excited about buying gear and not selling it. The people who are going to be good enough to sell their gear are going to make a very small profit that won't even really matter.

Why is blizz doing this again? To make stop people who would use the internet to sell their items anyways? It is just a bull... excuse to make more money off of all of the players. You do know they are "taxing" the items you sell and taking a portion of the profits for themselves. I am going to play D3 because it will be fun. But I am just praying some other company comes out with a decent game that isn't a complete sellout like Blizz.

PST 95% of the people saying this is good just shut up your dumb

Cool. YEAH!

Can I get a Diablo 3 beta key via PayPal too?

this will mean more farmers.. hope it isnt like the d2 days when you try to lvl and peeps will come in to kill the boss before you can get to him.. not sure how i will feel about rl money based ah.

i love wow out comes D3 WOOT

This gonna be epic i hope gear in real ah will sold for a lot.
I'm too lucky on drop haha :P