If you haven’t seen it, Blizzard made an announcement about Diablo 3 , in that they are adding an auction house. Diablo Fans has a great write up on it here . When it comes to Blizzard, I tend not to want to post right away. When they make a mistake, in time they seem to rectify it. So I learned not be rash and hasty. I should be patient and watch how the auction house will unfold. But in this case it couldn’t wait. To me the auction house that Blizzard is looking to set up is the start of the next trend in gaming. Moving us one step closer to Full Timer Gamer as a profession. I have a fear that one day people will be playing games 80 to 100 hours a week not for fun, but to pay real life rent. And the sad thing is that game companies won’t build games for fun. Instead they will tune the game for a bigger cut of the labor that full time gamers can potentially make. Let’s look at the Diablo 3 Auction house ... 1) You can sell items for real money. Not points, not tokens, di
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