==Auction House Region Locking==

<blue><font color="#FFFFFF">Is the GAH global or not? This would mean it’s possible to trade across “realms,” wouldn’t it?</font><br>

Bashiok: The gold auction house is not global. You can use each region’s gold auction house, but they’re all separate, as the characters in each region are separate. You can only use the currency-based auction house of your home region.

<font color="#FFFFFF">I was under the impression that I would be able to switch my currency from USD to Peso’s whenever I pleased, being an American citizen/resident. But I wouldn’t be able to switch to a Euro AH unless I proved that I “moved” to Europe.</font><br>

Bashiok: That all sounds right to me. I’m not sure of a process to actually flag your account for another region though, even with proof. It’s possible that could happen but I’m not aware of any intent to support that.

<font color="#FFFFFF">What if you create characters on a different region’s servers? Do those characters have access to your home region’s RMAH, or do those characters simply not have access to any RMAH?</font><br>

Bashiok: Each region is compartmentalized. Characters on one region cannot play with characters on another region. Similarly, each region has its own gold and currency-based auction houses. Only characters on a region can use that region’s auction houses (and of course a restriction from the currency-based if it’s not your home region). </blue>

==Blizzard's Region Locking Policy==