[Quiet Man Cometh]

I don't play online games, in no small part becasue of the cost. It's possible that with an item auction option in the game, monthly online costs might be a little smaller, if Diablo follows that pattern. I'm not really familiar with the Diablo set-up, having not played it since D1, but I know that games all over the place are doing things with real money, I would expect to see it more often in the future.

What would really suck is if the items buyable for real money were superior to those in game, basically makinga large power gap between money and non-money players. I hate that sort of thing.