The price of gold will drop in the Diablo III Real Money Auction House, with a change coming in a hotfix during Tuesday's maintenance. The maximum stack size for gold listings on the RMAH will go from 10 million to 50 million, while the minimum price per stack remains at $0.25. That means that the floor price for 1 million gold on the RMAH can go from $0.025, down to $0.005. Anyone buying gold on the RMAH will be be purchasing far more than 1 million gold at once, though, since the minimum amount that can be spent on a RMAH purchase is $1.

This change is explicitly stated as a way to keep the price of gold on the official Real Money Auction House comparable to the price that gold costs at third-party gold selling websites. Over time there is a natural gold inflation in Diablo III, as more gold comes into the economy than goes out of it. The developers have talked about eventually adding more gold sinks, to pull more of that money out of the economy. For the time being, this sort of change at least helps keep the price on the RMAH somewhat close to the unofficial websites, that reflect the "real" price of gold.

Here is the announcement of the change; this will automatically update as more details are posted after the server maintenance.


The server maintenance that will bring the hotfix is initially scheduled to last for 8 hours. With the testing needed, that may easily run longer.

Update: The hotfix is now live, and the official hotfix notes have been published: