Game: Diablo III

[KrayZ33]

I'm mostly curious what's going to happen with the auction house. Things are getting a bit nuts over there the past few days, and in a bad way. Two days ago a perfect square gem would go for about 300,000g, and now it's closer to 85,000g. The market's getting over saturated it seems. It's not even profitable to combine gems up to flawless square anymore.

I'm sure you know pretty well why gems sell for less than x days ago, you can always remove them... thats something you couldn't do in D2 and thats why you can't trade with them in D3.

[Assertn]

I'm sure you know pretty well why gems sell for less than x days ago, you can always remove them... thats something you couldn't do in D2 and thats why you can't trade with them in D3.

Yes, I'm aware of that. However, gems above flawless square can only be crafted by players, and to craft a perfect square costs 30,000g + 3 tomes of secrets + 3 flawless square gems, which totals to about 60,000g just to make the gem. Then, to account for the 15% transaction fee at the AH, the gem has to sell for at least 71,000g just to break even. It's hardly worth the ridiculously expensive setup fee for the artisian crafting skill, as I can make more than the profit margin by just grinding for 15 minutes.