The Diablo III real-money auction house has gone live in the Americas. Â This now allows players to buy and sell items for real world cash. Â To access the real-money auction house, just log-in just as you would to the gold auction house and then click the tab that shows your region’s currency.
Blizzard has implemented a handful of security measures that arrive with the auction house features. Â Players that want to use funds in their Battle.net account to buy and sell goods will need a Battle.net authenticator tied to their account. Â For players that choose to use PayPal options, there’s another protection measure in place with the Battle.net SMS Protect Service.
At launch, Blizzard has also limited the real-money trading to equipment only. Â That means you’ll find weapons, armor, and other gear, but no gems just yet. Â Commodity trading is due to arrive on the auction house in the near-future.
Blizzard has cleared this hurdle relatively quickly, as Diablo III launched less than a month ago. Â The next major milestone for the best dungeon crawler of 2012, is PVP. Â Which is also scheduled as a free update at an undisclosed date.