Blizzard is introducing the Remote Auction House application for iPhone and Web. It’s actually a subscription service, providing notifications and access from essentially any web-connected device. The catch? $3 a month.
If WoW were Eve, I might consider paying $3/mo. for remote access to the market. It’s not. I’m sure people will shell out for it, because there surely are people who want this. However, gold in-game simply comes to easily to people willing to spend a small amount of time in game. Heck, Gevlon has been raking in gold with the Auctioneer and logging in every day.
Maybe this simplifies gold gains through transactions. This certainly allows more rapid access to transactions and improves arbitrage opportunities, and were I a gold seller, I’d leap on this plus some web scripts to pull in money. It’d be way cheaper than farming.
For me, though, it’s a waste of time and money.
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