Diablo III auction house launch delayed (obviously)

If you were looking to make some sweet cash munnies selling your gear on Diablo III’s real-money auction house, you’re going to have to wait a bit longer – Blizzard has announced that the launch has been delayed from its expected date next week to an unconfirmed new date.

“Despite very aggressive projections, our preparations for the launch of the game did not go far enough,” wrote Blizz community manager Micah “Bashiok” Whipple over on the Battle.net forums.

“In order to make sure everything is continuing to run as it should, we’ve decided to move out our target launch for the real-money auction house beyond our original estimated date of May 22. We’ll post further updates on that in the near future.”

In the meantime, though, it seems most of the server problems have been sorted out. According to Whipple, Blizz is “continuing to monitor performance globally and will be taking further measures as needed to ensure a positive experience for everyone”, so that’s lovely. I’m hoping that includes free pizza.