D3 RMAH - How will this affect us?

[brtev]

What do you think about the 15% fee and restrictions of the RMAH?

When Blizzard finally brings this online, how do you think this will affect secondary market sales? Gold sales will be especially interesting. Because at $2/100K gold, 20% off that $1.60 which pretty sure is acceptable to some sellers for a quicker and more secure sale. My guess is the price of gold will drop even further.

Do you think secondary gold and item market will be enforced much since the RMAH will take care of a significant portion of RMT?

I'd specifically like to hear from D3 buyers and sellers.

 

[therealsnafu]

Banned - You may not threaten this site or it's staff/users.

the entire point of the RMAH was for blizzard to have a way to monetize D3 (residual revenue for them) I don't think off site trading will be heavily inforced, but who knows

I foresee a lot of people trading off site to avoid the 30% fee*, especially on big ticket items
Not to mention the 1-2 week processing? (I could be mistaken)

selling a perfect high ilvl legendary for $100 would only net you $70 to your paypal

the price of gold will probably go down to .50 / 100k or so.... once more than 2% of characters have unlocked inferno in which you can farm 100k in like... 10 min, and might go down even further once people can sell their extra gold for $ (legitimately)

*its 15% + 15% to transfer to paypal

 

[warmach1ne]

Banned - scammed multiple users

The way I look at is this:

It's beneficial to gold buyers on this site, what I'm sure will happen is that when the RMAH hits, the people with a **** ton of gold, who do not sell gold, will be putting their items tot he RMAH hoping to make some spare cash from their farmed items.

From this, I would see a huge deflation in gold ^ I think a rough estimate of about 50 cents per 100k is right, maybe even less.

The only reason for this deflation in gold price is this: People with enough gold will sell their good items for decent prices on the RMAH because they already have enough gold and are just looking for spare cash.

This could however be beneficial to people who have the spare money and will buy items off the RMAH, assuming prices of gold don't increase. Buy good items for cheap on the RMAH, sell on AH, sell gold, and profit.

The 1-2 week processing I believe, if I remember correctly, is for debit/credit card purchases.

 

[thedunbay]

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Gold will be useless pretty soon and people are going to want to buy the best in slot stats on gear for their specific classes. It's easy to get yellows and sometimes oranges, but finding the specific stats in those items in the long run will make those items worth a lot.

 

[therealsnafu]

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I can easily see gold becoming nearly worthless in the near future as stated above

Just a side fact: blizzard throttles in game drops of good items depending on the availability of said items on the AH
^ stated in a post from zarhym too lazy to find it but I'm sure the post is still active on the forums

 

[brtev]

I foresee a lot of people trading off site to avoid the 30% fee*, especially on big ticket items

I thought it was 15% on AH + 15% to transfer so that's 0.15 *1.15 = 17%? 3% of the total from PayPal = 20%

The only reason for this deflation in gold price is this: People with enough gold will sell their good items for decent prices on the RMAH because they already have enough gold and are just looking for spare cash.

Not sure if you know this, but people with enough gold will sell their gold directly on RMAH.

I can easily see gold becoming nearly worthless in the near future as stated above

Just a side fact: blizzard throttles in game drops of good items depending on the availability of said items on the AH
^ stated in a post from zarhym too lazy to find it but I'm sure the post is still active on the forums

That's an interesting fact. So if it's better to sell rare items asap if the auction house has low quantity.


Ok so the next question is what will you do before the RMAH goes online? Sell all your gold? Sell all your items? Put all your gold in gems?

 

[SeekritRifter]

the entire point of the RMAH was for blizzard to have a way to monetize D3 (residual revenue for them) I don't think off site trading will be heavily inforced, but who knows

Seems to me that Blizzard would want their fee on every transaction. But your post made me realize the real reason for them having an online-only game

Just like CCP has some kind of RMT inside the game (can trade ingame cash for gametime but not RL money), which doesn't stop people from buying ingame cash outside of the game (since "gold sellers" have better rate than the ingame way to be competitive) and CCP to hunt people on both side of the RMT'ing.