Later this month when Diablo III launches worldwide, Blizzard will be allowing all players to play together. Â Servers will be divided by region, with the Americas, Europe, and Asia each having a place to call home in the Diablo game world. Â Obviously, depending on which region you live in, your home server will be assigned to that region. Â However, if you will also have the opportunity to play on other servers if you choose.
The gold-based auction house opens its doors worldwide on May 15 with the launch of Diablo III, and we plan to bring the real-money auction house online approximately one week after that.
From the recent tutorial that Blizzard has unveiled, buying and selling goods seems to be pretty straight forward. Â When you get into selling items for real world cash, that’s when things begin to get a little tricky. Â In North America, Blizzard will take a dollar off of the top, for all equipment on the auction house sales. Â This goes for weapons, armors, and other loot that falls into the predetermined categories. Â For commodity based items like gems, Blizzard will take a fifteen percent fee out of the total selling price. Â Players can transfer funds to either a Battle.net account balance, or cash-out with Paypal which also takes a hearty portion of your earnings.
The gold based auction houses will open when the game launches on May 15th. Â As for the real cash auctions, Blizzard is hoping to launch them “approximately one week after that”.
