These commodities are now available for trading in the real-money auction house: gems, dyes, crafting materials, blacksmithing plans, jeweler designs, and pages of training. Gold commodity trading will be forthcoming, Blizzard hopes, and we assume that by the time that happens the new PvP release patch will be not too far off. (!) The additions to the auction house have legitimized the black market trades of Diablo 2 in days of old. Those of us who remember the economic value of gems back in the day will be interested to see how pitting them against real-world dollars turns out.
There are also the standard bug fixes that come with each patch, critical but rare errors or user interface tweaks that smooth out the increasingly uncommon rough edge in Diablo 3.
Of course, real-money purchases are live and kicking – you can waste your hard-earned bucks in the real-money auction house, or save your dollars and instead farm for items to sell for a few extra bucks. Does that make it a one-man sweatshop?
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