The crowd is cheering. It's deafening. Wooping, cheering, merlock-blurbles: Near on seven thousand voices merging into one.

World of Warcraft is going to have Linked Auction Houses, and it's just been received like news of our Risen Lord Savoir or a free Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt clone for everyone in the house. Looking around Blizzcon and you get a unique perspective to what people really care about. That the biggest cheer of the show was for the opening up of the free market says everything.