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An '''Auction House''', or a similar mechanic for trading is almost positively going to be available for [[Diablo III]] players. As this feature remains speculative (though often hinted at by the design team) no concrete details are yet available.

The benefit of an auction house is that players can put items up for sale in an automated system. They need not be present to sell their item or spam ads about their item in the chat channels. It's also easier to find items you want to trade for, since other players don't have to be online for you to see "[[WUG]]".

There is no confirmation of an auction house in Diablo III, or any sort of trading features at all, as of yet. Players certainly hope for it, and the [[D3 Team]] wants to include it, but they won't comment officially until they're sure one way or the other. Such a feature could be a useful [[gold sink]], if the characters buying or selling items must pay a [[gold]] fee or a percent of the item sell price.

==Official Comments==

~~==Bashiok comments==~~Blizzard has not confirmed that we'll see an auction house in Diablo 3, though they have often said they want to implement better trading systems than the unregulated [[FFA]] system of Diablo 2. ~~The most detailed comment~~ Jay Wilson commented on trading in an interview from [[BlizzCon 2009]]. [http://g4tv.com/games/pc/28197/diablo-iii/articles/68225/BlizzCon-2009-Diablo -III -Game-Director-Interview/] ::We haven’t made a decision about something like an auction house, but we want a better trading system than the one in Diablo II. It could take the form of an auction house or it could take the form of a new trade system that is easier, facilitating trades through Battle.net. That could be another way that players could trade items without having to actually go into the game. We haven’t made a decision on any of that, but we~~'ve yet seen came from~~ are going to do something to that end. We consider it really critical to the D3 game. Prior to that, in January 2009, Diablo 3 Community Manager [[Bashiok]] weighed in ~~a forum post in January, 2009~~on the whole issue of Diablo 3's [[economy]] and trading mechanisms. [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/bashiok-on-auction-houses/]

::Just a couple of my own cents on the system. First off we really don’t have a solid plan for any sort of external trading system, that is anything beyond being in the same game with the person. We know we’d like something like that though if at all possible.

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