Soldato
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It's a cashcow, nothing more really.
Diablo 2 had a ton of 3rd party trading and a huge number of people got caught up in scams because of it.
Blizzard are implementing a service that would have been done outside of the game anyway, but giving players a safe way to go about it. It's not like they've sat there dreaming up new inventive ways to milk their player base, the RMAH was going to exist in one form or another anyway, with or without Blizzard having control.
Sure they take a share, but the third party sites did/would anyway.