Kanos posted:

Do you have a source or is this just faith in the idea that Blizzard did not have dollar signs in their eyes about the RMAH? Because "oops we made drop rates complete dog poo poo and the game is borderline unplayable" and "now you can bypass the grind and buy items directly for real money(of which blizzard receives a cut)" being completely independent of each other is very suspiciously coincidental, especially considering it would have been very easy for them to buff the hell out of drop rates to partially address the issue, but they did not until they removed the RMAH - a move that was spurred primarily by the fact that the thing was putting Blizzard in a weird place wrt legal liability.