lol well kinda basically its a win for blizzard because botters tend to buy multiple accounts which means multiple $60 purchases for blizz also botters will sell stuff on the RMAH, and when they do blizz gets 15% of the payout so they would make a lot of money if you have thousands of people botting and then getting that 15% off all the items they sell
Exactly.
qft - if you study business for about 10 minutes you will find that it ruins the economy - with or without RMAH
as the D3 economy is not backed by assets unlike the real world's and money is being generated the whole time (like it was printed during the hyperinflation) you will see that the same thing is going to happen with the RMAH - prices will go down because the market devalues
I don't understand what the amount of year's studying a topic gives you the ultimate insight in your opinion. Just look what happens at the market every day, people with education loose literally everything. So if one believes he knows something doesn't make it so. Especially not with something, he could not have studied in the first place. Financial markets within an virtual environment.
You can not compare conventional capital markets. There are gold sinks and basically what will happen is that "very rare" items will be valued the highest (replace the soj standard from D2) and gold will fluctuate dependent on active bots and AH prices - which can at any time be manipulated by drop rate functions, new builds, game dynamics, PvP succes or not etc etc. Also the hardcore game mode will likely offer the most solid market, since there needs to be a constant influx of the good items. And people tend to become inactive or new game content will change things entirely. And new people will start playing too. So there is a lot of factors, which all influence the ingame market.
Again RMAH is a big new component when it comes to botting evaluation. Without bots the economy would grow slower and many people with less time would had a much harder time. Now with enough money you can start with the best gear and play the game to the fullest in the shortest possible time. Or you can buy that one item you need to complete your build. And with these possibilities, each time Blizzard earns their share.
Many people who bot do this likely to just cash in with the least amount of work possible. But on another note and maybe the most interesting one, many people like me would get bored from the game way to fast without having the possibility to script and create interesting bots. After all the most successful games in Diablo 2 were Baal or Meph runs, powered by bots. So it can be a lot of fun/help to play with bots.
If Blizzard would ban me (as they did back in Diablo 2) i would leave this game forever.
