Next year, Blizzard Entertainment will terminate one of its most controversial services, Diablo 3's gold and real-money auction houses. The auction house let players safely and easily buy and sell in-game items, but Blizzard believes the feature "ultimately undermines Diablo's core game play: kill monsters to get cool loot."
Blizzard co-founder and president Mike Morhaime said the decision to end Diablo 3's auction house came about as result of a number of factors.
"It was a very complex feature that required a lot of planning, a lot of resources, but ultimately I don't think it helped the game," Morhaime told Polygon in an interview at BlizzCon. "I think our players recognized that. We were really looking to see what would happen...
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