"When I was working at Blizzard," said Wilson, "the reason for cheap Diablo 4 Gold doing the real-money auction house was to ensure security. It wasn't for money. We didn't think we'd make the amount of money we did. The most difficult thing with Diablo 2 was item duping and duping hacks as well as all that gold selling, as well as all the other things."

As Wilson explained, Blizzard's solution to overcome this issue with Diablo 3 was to take charge of the trading market. This is also one of the reasons behind the game's requirement of an online internet connection. Wilson states that when you provide an offline client hackers "got you." Therefore, always online and auction houses were Blizzard's failed attempts to manage the issues from Diablo 2.

In the short time following its release in 2012 the auction house in Diablo 3 was deemed to be one of the games biggest flaws, being endlessly mocked and criticized by the gaming community. Yet removing it wasn't easy and it wasn't because of technical issues. Instead, its delayed removal in 2014 was due it was an enticement feature of the game. It was printed on all of its retail boxes as well as there were legal concerns regarding cutting it.

"The reason we didn't remove it the moment we realized it Diablo 4 Gold was a problem is legally, we were not sure that we could , despite it being prominently advertised on the boxes," said Wilson. "So we actually took a long time to work out all legal issues before we came to the conclusion that 'OK, we think it's worth it to try it even if we end up with a lawsuit, well.'"