The Diablo 3 RMAH is running in the Americas sans commodities (including gold) but other regions may have to wait some time to get access. Currently the EU GAH gives you the following message when you try to switch currencies:
This indicates that we’re going to see the RMAH activated tomorrow (I hope you’ve all been reading up and preparing perhaps checking out information such as Predicted Prices for the RMAH) which will be accompanied by a lot of excitement amongst EU traders – and confusion, disappointment and anger amongst those who don’t quite follow the erratic markets within the auction houses (I recommend joining the guild for all your RMAH guide needs).
There is the possibility that there will be further delays however. It’s also likely that the Asian RMAH will not activate at the same time as the European RMAH:
As you may have read on the North American Diablo® III site, the real-money auction house has launched in the Americas game region, and our goal is to launch the real-money auction house for the Europe game region in the very near future. (The estimated target date will be updated in the game client with the next maintenance.) We are rolling out each region’s real-money auction house separately to ensure our players have the best possible experience.
We appreciate your patience as we take a measured approach with this deployment, and we’ll provide another update as soon as we have more information to share.
The 15th June predicted date has been up in the client since before Bashiok made this post. Like any community manager, he is keen to be vague (so no one can say “You said X Bashiok and then Y!?”) but perhaps, in this case, it indicates an internal decision to delay the European real money auction house further. Perhaps they want further time to resolve niggling issues (like the errors I talked about earlier in the week). Only time will tell!
Ray
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Hey, I just checked and I can confirm that RMAH is live for Europe. I have already posted some mediocre items (who knows, maybe I’ll be lucky
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It will take a period of time before we know, for certain, the kind of values that sell quickly – until then a bit of luck isn’t to be snubbed
If EU is anything like NA, post your high DPS weapons, they sell for a lot and it’s usually the first thing a lot of people look for. Like I’ve said in the forums, I’ve seen weapons that were 2-10 million in gah sell for $250. Not just being listed, but actually selling. Time is money, people making big Pay checks don’t have hours to farm for this stuff. Good luck guys.
Great tip
It should also be noted that if you have really really good gear on your character, you could sell it all and buy it back at a much lower price later on. I would have done this but the time/effort in my barb just isn’t worth what I estimated I could sell him for. I would also be relying completely on the GAH to gear him back up and that’s more time spent bargain hunting etc. Just a couple of ideas others can think about if they’re in the situation to bank heavily from what they’re wearing. I think NA RMAH is coming out of it’s “holy crap buy buy buy” phase and is slowly settling down. Still money to be made and people are just cashing their paychecks today and some are waiting for funds to make it into their bnet so just more things to consider. EU has an advantage and you guys can make big bucks learning from what NA went through. I estimate about a week before our RMAH settles down but I’m just pulling that estimate out of my… AH
P.S. Don’t make financial decisions based purely on what I said, just make sure to do some homework. I’m kicking myself for not considering some of the things I’ve seen happen on release day.