Roadmap to Profit: How to Make Real Money on the Diablo III Real Money Auction House

[M a x]

The day I turn gaming into work, is the day I give up gaming.

All power to the peeps making some $$ but constant farming runs and hours trolling the AH is just not for me.

As time passes, I think prices for real high end gear will crash (compared to now), I'm happy to wait.

[TheBard]

Time is money friend... well its also life really and if you are in China and making a better life Gold farming power to you.
atm it time Blizzard has won really D2 made some people very wealthy this time round you are only working for it.

[Pearl]

Sold my Accounts to PlayerAuctions the other day, 5 lvl 60's over 2 accounts.
Ive seen a fair amount of posts/threads of ppl showing off their money making by selling items, pretty sweet.

All but one of my friends has stopped playing.
I got my money back (and more) and had fun in the process.
Back to BF3!

[jonlee]

if time is money you shouldn't be playing games

[Bronze_D]

well to be fair, the game was 'relatively' fun up till you exhaust all the fun challenge really...

i mean i already knew before i even started that once i reach inferno and start the farming cycle that the game's inherent fun in gameplay itself would have been depleted, and sure enough once our group blazed through inferno we just play the auction house game really, and not the game itself much except once in a while when we have some of our casual friends who only sparingly play the game shows up.

[Ralph Wiggum]

The day I turn gaming into work, is the day I give up gaming.

All power to the peeps making some $$ but constant farming runs and hours trolling the AH is just not for me.

As time passes, I think prices for real high end gear will crash (compared to now), I'm happy to wait.

Pretty much sums up my feelings. Considering the relatively piddly amount of money you get compared to the hours of farming you need to find those high-end items, I'm better off going to the casino or something.

[Bronze_D]

That's the thing though Ralph, and the one that purehybrid missed as well... and part of the point mentioned in this article itself.

once you get the ball rolling in D3's AH, or RAH... you don't actually need to farm anything.

the whole point of fishing for the budget items and reselling them for it's proper market value is that you only need to visit the AH for a minute or two, post the item and just leave the game then and let the AH do the rest.

Assuming you know WHAT TO LOOK, and HOW (knowing what filter to use and what item to target can make the search as short as a few seconds), and what is the price average, you essentially generate gold/cash for nothing more than visiting the AH everytime your auction slot cycles over.

[Drakand]

i've been so in the dark

the first game i heard people earning money (apart from winning tournaments and stuff) was tf2.

I played d1 and d2, first time i ever heard d2 had selling stuff was when people talked about it relating to d3.

Interesting stuff

i'd just buy the game to play it, love some hack n slash, hehe.

[skitzor]

I made hundreds of dollars when I was 14 (in ~2004) selling items on open battle net in Diablo 2. good times.

[Ralph Wiggum]

That's the thing though Ralph, and the one that purehybrid missed as well... and part of the point mentioned in this article itself.

once you get the ball rolling in D3's AH, or RAH... you don't actually need to farm anything.

the whole point of fishing for the budget items and reselling them for it's proper market value is that you only need to visit the AH for a minute or two, post the item and just leave the game then and let the AH do the rest.

Assuming you know WHAT TO LOOK, and HOW (knowing what filter to use and what item to target can make the search as short as a few seconds), and what is the price average, you essentially generate gold/cash for nothing more than visiting the AH everytime your auction slot cycles over.

Well sure you can go fishing on the AH...but then maybe Blizzard should just release the AH and RAH as a stand-alone game. It just doesn't seem...fun to me. I would actually be interested to see the time-profit ratio is for this kind of activity.

[Bronze_D]

Well whether it's fun or not is up to the player of course, i have a colleague that enjoy this very much (ironically he is never really that interested on the actual game itself).

but assuming you know the pattern and what to look for, and how to set the tools available in game to find them, it's a fairly short time investment...

all you do is scan, snipe the good ones, put it back up and that's pretty much it...

But the thing is that this will not last... at least not by my estimation...

Eventually it will reach saturation and once that point is reached the money will only flow in trickles once ppl have the stuff and the money have shifted around a fair bit, so all we're doing right now essentially is to GRAB as much money as we can while this still last before it decays.

Once it has decayed, we'll have to wait till some significant change occur before the market is stirred up again.

[haxman]

I made hundreds of dollars when I was 14 (in ~2004) selling items on open battle net in Diablo 2. good times.

Wait what? Open Battlenet? I used to just create my own hacked items to play with on open bnet.

[skitzor]

Wait what? Open Battlenet? I used to just create my own hacked items to play with on open bnet.

I created hacked items and then sold them on ebay.

[gmcleod]

Wait what? Open Battlenet? I used to just create my own hacked items to play with on open bnet.

I created hacked items and then sold them on ebay.

And this is why Diablo 3 is always online. *Clap* lol

[baghwan]

Most of my guild mates playing D3 are all botting, even the ones I would have expected better from, they tell me that if you want to even have a chance at being competitive you have to be botting, is it really that prevalent?

Glad I never bothered with the game.