Blizzard put things back on the right track

Posted on 9 February, 2023 by lowes emily

Diablo 3's 2012 launch was a complete disaster due to its ever-online requirements buy Diablo IV Gold , its damaged servers, as well as a real-money auction house that was not liked or wanted. In the present, 10 years further on, we're sure that eventually Blizzard put things back on the right track in the form of Diablo 3 and ended up with a great ARPG. But , how did it take nearly two years for Blizzard to take down that irritating authentic-money auction house? It seems you could blame the packaging the game was shipped to and their promises to create an active auction house.

As spotted via PC Gamer, some former Blizzard and Blizzard North employees held a panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. On that panel, the group of ex- Blizz developers discussed the history of Diablo and their own connections to the games, and shared experiences of creating the popular franchise. On the panel, the an ex-designer who was the lead on Diablo 3, Jay Wilson addressed the controversy surrounding the auction house, explaining its origins , and much more.

"When I was at Blizzard," said Wilson, "the reason for doing the auction house in real money was to protect the company. The reason was not money. We didn't imagine that we'd earn enough money from it. One of the biggest issues in Diablo 2 was item duping and duping hacks, and all the gold sellers, and all those things."

So, as Wilson explained, Blizzard's way to overcome this issue with Diablo 3 was to take the control of the trading market. This was also the main reason behind Diablo 3's move to require an always-online internet connection. Wilson affirms that the moment you allow offline clients, the hackers  buy Diablo 4 Gold "got you." So always online and auction houses were Blizzard's failed attempts at resolving issues from Diablo 2.