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hi I'm John Hight production director on Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
and I'm Josh Josh Mosqueira the game director. So as you saw
we're going to be shutting down the Diablo auction houses. When we rejoice
set up the auction house this is supposed to be a safe and convenient way
for you to trade items.
And in that respect was very successful but it became a double-edge sword.
It totally did because at the core of the Diablo experience is a promise of
killing monsters killing deamons
for the promise of finding those a epic items
and the auction houses made that experience way to convene and really
short circuited our
core reward loop. We will be giving more information down the road but for now we
want to know that both the real money auction house
and the gold auction house will be shut down on March 18th
2014 that she be plenty of time to
settle your fares be ready to play Diablo 3
without the auction house. Suppresses is really exciting news
from the moment they announced reaper of souls and mister talking to guys about
what looked to by all means to us
how we wanna drop less better more epic items
it for me to believe that by shutting down
real money in the goal of the houses really paves the way to make sure that
killing monsters in game the most rewarding
the most satisfying the most compelling ways and getting your hands
on those items as I wanna see thank you all you guys in the community for
for being patient with us for coming along this journey but at the end of the
day
elite at Blizzard and specifically or something three we felt that
the right decision is to preserve the integrity love
the game experience at the album make sure the friendly islands
in game is the best place to find those items so we have some more exciting news
for you a Blizz con
but until then we'll see you in sanctuary
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