ashiok has recently confirmed that D3 will only have private chat

ashiok has recently confirmed that D3 will only have private chat, and there won't be any open or public channels. The reason for this change is to prevent player trading and linking of items, forcing them to use the Auction Houses (ideally, the Real Money Auction House.)

    They're in there right now. world of warcraft gear Unless people are expecting general open channels? We've consistently said we won't have those.

Blizzard has consistently stated that they won't have general chat?

It was said once. By Bashiok. 6 MONTHS AGO. And he said Chat Channels were working and that it would be like Diablo II IRC style.

    Chat channels are in, and working. They're more like the Diablo II IRC style than the individual chat windows like StarCraft II has.

    Having ways for friends and acquaintances to create social groups has been in the long term plans of the new Battle.net for some time. Whether they're called clans or not is a smaller detail. It's just getting the time to work on adding in those types of want-to-have features. diablo 3 itemsAlmost assuredly not for the launch of the game, but hopefully at some point in the future.

This change is another method, just like the recent stash size changes, to force use of the RMAH. Even if the RMAH isn't used directly, it's still used indirectly in many cases since pro users will be purchasing Gold Auction House items, converting to gold, and then selling it for cash.

Players will still want to trade items and engage in private sales, though,  muSvsE40  to avoid costly Auction House expenses. Or maybe they just don't want to take the risk of selling a valuable item on the RMAH, and would rather trade for it.

So, grab yourself a good name (like D3XCHANGE.COM, which is currently available) and give the players something they need: cheap diablo 3 golda very user-friendly website where players can simply select a region to join a Trade Chat IRC-like interface. No sign-in or registration required, posts require Captcha to prevent spam, and just make it really easy for players to come and go from.

This can't be a forum, IRC, or any other kind of overcomplicated process or something requiring an third-party application. It has to be something simple and easy, just like IMGUR.COM. http://bbs.fhchzx.com/boke.asp?1213121.showtopic.121800.html