Topic: Idea: Diablo III Bitcoin Auction House - page 3. (Read 4059 times)

I think this is one of the greatest ideas for BitCoin ever (besides my one  ), but you should really change the title to say "Diablo III Bitcoin Auction House" or something, so people know to click on it 

I think you'll find MANY of the item farmers would jump on the chance to save 15% of their profits, all the while bypassing the Blizzard-->Paypal-->Credit-Card-institution fees and hassles.

Someone's gonna make a killing on this.

Bitcoin is useful for transferring in-game gold to cash. The only problem is that Bitcoin isn't implemented into the game, and paypal will be. That means that everyone will use paypal and give up another few percent on their money (After blizzard takes a governmental-sized helping of 15%). If both Bitcoin and paypal were offered then Bitcoin would triumph.

I like your market stats website idea. I wonder what Blizzard has in store with their api?

So Diablo III is up and running...
...and I found my first half decent item I don't have immediate use for. I just checked the gold auction house there are 2 items which come close.
So I was about to make an auction for with a starting price similar to those.

And guess what they charge a fee of 15%. Now that's a convenient way for them to decrease the inflation of ingame gold.
Then I realized it is not that my item is so awesome it is that the auction house isn't really popular amoung the players.
I just checked Ogrr too. Not really convenient there are no interesting offers either there (at least on the Europe realm)
And before I do that I can just trade on diablo.incgamers.net for other items or ingame gold.

Using bitcoins just because isn't really an argument to use it. One thing that the ingame auction house is missing is any information on the popularity of the item, how many people already did bid there and it is impossible to tell if the item was bid at at all or if it is still at starting price.

I'm not saying that this will be the killer app for bitcoin but it is one of those things I would really want to use it on, in a consistent way. Very soon Blizzard will enable some api (guess what it's json, what we already know and love) to interface external applications in the game. We have to wait for that to come out to see what is actually possible but we already can start the planning phase for such a project.

If somebody want to team up and do it lets do some brainstorming in this thread.
As of recent issues with security issues with bitcoin services I would suggest doing this on a dedicated server or at least something where it is unlikely a break-in would occur like google app engine.

*changed topic to better represent the idea*