Brook maintains it wasn't auction house botters like him who ruined the economy but farmings botters, who caused so much inflation that it made it impossible for genuine players to compete. Now that the auction house has closed Brook's Diablo 3 career is over, but the full post notes that making money got harder and harder as the Diablo 3 economy was ruined. I was making more than what most of the football players playing for the country’s top clubs were,' he wrote. 'You have to realize that in Bulgaria, where the average wage is a little over 700 leva (€360) per month, this was a big deal. It seems that most players in Diablo 3 just had no idea what they were doing when it came to item trading and the Auction House.'Īt the peak of his botting career, Brook was earning approximately €370 (about $495) per day. 'In fact, even mind-bogglingly dumb trades are not uncommon when you have a sample size of millions. 'It turns out that in a game like Diablo 3 that has millions of players in each region (Europe, Americas and Asia) there are so many players that have no idea what they’re doing that good and expensive items are being put for sale on the Auction House for ridiculous prices all the time,' he wrote. Brook leveraged his impressive knowledge of the game to create searches for specific, much-sought items, and even bought extra, more powerful PCs to help run multiple lightning-fast searches across multiple Diablo 3 accounts. In a blog called A Diablo 3 Story, Brook outlines his experience going from a player to a botter, learning to program and work economic systems while building on a free bot distributed by a friend.Ĭapitalising appetite for rare items, Brook's bot would automatically purchase likely gear that was selling under value, mainly due to player ignorance of what they had.

Diablo 3 no longer has a real money auction house, but while it was active it was providing a very nice living for those willing to exploit the system.ĭiablo 3's real money auction house helped a Bulgarian going by the psuedonym Cherokee Brook make over $100,000 in 2013, apparently.

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