Will the merchant caravan be available in multiplayer games? Would hate to have to choose between online Battle.net play, and all the perks it provides, and being able to craft my own items. I read somewhere that Jay's cousin's fiancee's brother-in-law said it would be a single-player-only feature. Please to tell me this is wrong!

You will see and interact with your own caravan while in a multiplayer game.

That doesn't stop someone from crafting something from their upgraded artisan and trading it to you, of course.

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Yea that was a concern I had as well. If you were lucky enough to find a very rare powerful recipe, you would want to control the production of it. It would have been lame if any1 in the current game with you could just start using your' artisans at their leisure.

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I always imagined a situation where people would have rare recipes and actually charge entry to their games so people could craft them. It has huge griefing potential, and really selling the crafted item is a cleaner way to make desirable items accessible. It does require the investment up front though.