Yes, I also expected this. A REAL money aucion house is like a … bigger than just "huge" invite for gold farmers & spammers.
Some idiot already made the suggestion of a real money auction house for DDO. I replied to him that this was an invide for gold spammers.
DDO is relatively free of them right now.
I'm not sure, but I believe it's because their in-game economy just is evolved so that gold frming doesn't make much sense there. Used items can be sold to pawn shops there, actually, in-game, from which players can buy these items for in-game currency. I'm tending to believe that the in-game pawn shops are their greatest blow against gold faming.
Plus, you can get almost everything ia the so-called "Turbine Points" in the in-game "DDO-Shop". These "TP's" are the only thing in-game that can be bought via real money, apart from subscriptions.