More controversy for Diablo 3 RMAH – Video Games Update
Blizzard seems to be wrapped up in yet another controversy relating to the Real Money Auction House (RMAH) which is an auction store included in the game Diablo 3 where players can buy and sell in-game items for real money.
The attraction of RMAH is that gamers might be tempted to make some money off a game they like playing so much, but as thought by many gamers, RMAH doesn’t come without a catch. Gamers need to grind in the game a lot to get a random rare item drop which
can be auctioned to players around the world.
The catch here is that Blizzard can also sell premium items in the auction house and since the developers creating the items don’t have to grind for them but just create what they want and add it to the store; they can sell items with better stats compared
to those the players will get while grinding for much cheaper.
There have also been rumours on anonymous image boards that each employee gets a 30 percent cut from the item which he creates and manages to sell. This is extremely unfair for the fans and goes against many consumer protection laws. The South Korean government
has banned the RMAH in order to protect consumers.
The most current case involves a person who bid on an item valued at $0.00 but logged back on the next day to find that he had purchased the item for $149.00. This is pretty outrageous as some of the items cost more than the game itself.
There have also been other cases where players have bought glitched items and ended up paying much more than the price they were listed as. “We're working to address issues with the auction house that have arisen since the servers were brought back online
this morning,” said Zyrhym, who is a community manager at Blizzard.
The worst part of the whole controversy is the Blizzard fanboys, who continue to blindly back them up and fail to see how they are being scammed. Blizzard has admitted to influencing the virtual market by ‘beefing’ up or ‘nerfing’ the items so that they
can charge the highest for them, but that forum thread has been deleted from their forums.
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