Quote (Acuity @ Jun 4 2020 02:18pm)
I think at the time it wasn't illegal but it wasn't legal everywhere...im not certain so you'd have to look it up.
/edit but it wasn't because it wasn't working or because they hated making , money off people.
They were forced to get rid of it by outside pressure.
I don't think it was the outside pressure, it was more of the fact that their algorithm for rng drop, item scaling
And rng rolls was so bad that people spent more time trading than playing in their eyes (all the og people know how bad the drop rate was). But I mean what arpg doesn't do that? D2 And Poe has websites that sell for RMT, it just wasn't integrated.
Having an automated auction house would help so much more than spamming people for 30 minutes to buy 900+ chromos or something. I imagine it would also relieve server load from all the trade bots as well