I have no idea where to start because everything seems to be wrong since i left WoW a couple of years ago. Did Blizzard hire people to come up with terrible ideas to destroy WoW? What is the reason for this stack of mess-ups and disrespect towards the history of WoW?
Right now the most annoying thing i face is the auction house. The 1 copper undercutting still exists, the auction house is nearly empty and posting an auction will make you bankrupt.
to solve all the problems:
Make the first 100 auctions per day for “free” (no deposit, just auction house cuts)
When someone exceeds the 100 auction posts, just increase the deposit costs for every next auction. (to prevent automated undercutting and single linen cloth auctions)
Combine all the AH’s and ignore all the players below this post that are whining about the economy… those are the cause of all the trouble.
The cost to post items on the AH was increased some time ago, to prevent players from posting 1000 stacks of 1. It’s well needed to reduce scan time for certain AH addons.
Also I’d rather see an update to the AH UI, so that we don’t have to resort to addons in order to buy the auctions we want for the right price. Should be able to search for and sort auctions depending on their price, for example.
If you have ever played on a busy server you will NEVER wish the AHs to all be combined.
When BFA launched the AH on Draenor was nearly impossible to use, it was too slow. Now that was just the population of one server. Imagine all servers. It would just never function again.
The Horde and Alliance do share the AH though so you are selling to both sides per server (or per connected set of servers).
I wouldn’t want free listings myself. One of the actions they took to help with the AH traffic was to stop people listing things in stacks of 1. I fear free listings would just exacerbate that issue.
I’m not sure what you think I’ve/We’ve misunderstood.
If you combine every server’s AH it will never function again.
Horde and Alliance share the same AH per server or set of connected servers. To clarify, if I list something on the Alliance side on Draenor it appears on the AH for both Alliance and Horde.
The free listings will make the problems worse when it comes to listing items in stacks of 1. Stacks of 1 were largely responsible for slowing down the AHs on busy realms to the point they were practically useless.
For a full server, I am facing a terrible auction house experience. So either there are not enough auctions or the system is just broken (i believe it is both because i just got bankrupt posting 10 auctions of 10 dream shards).
The free listing would only work for the first 100 auctions (as i wrote) for the 101st auction you might want to pay 4 hundred million gold or just increases of small percentages until the correct behavior has been achieved.
This way the auction house is accessible for all players and not just the auction bots. Both the player experience and the server speed would be good. Scanning millions of auctions and posting 1000’s of auctions per day is the heaviest load for the auction house servers. It is really very simple. Make the game accessible for anyone and demotivate wrong behavior by policies.
Free listings will make the AH worse not better. People you class as bots would get free listings too. People would set up multiple alts to do 100 listings each every day for free. As you can have 50 chars per server, all with 100 listings each. That’s a lot of free stuff.
It should cost to use the AH. If you don’t have enough in game currency to do your listings then you have to start small and build up.
The AH is only merged if you are on a connected realm. You are on Trollbane, that is connected to EU Ahn’Qiraj, EU Balnazzar, EU Boulderfist, EU Chromaggus, EU Daggerspine, EU Laughing Skull, EU Shattered Halls, EU Sunstrider, EU Talnivarr.
If I check the server list Trollbane (and all it’s connections) shows as a Medium server not a full one.
Of course the auction house is fine for a small percentage of players. but that is not how Blizzard should make money. They need 100’s of millions of players to succeed and now a small percentage of players is satisfied.
The same goes for the linear content. some players like it, some hate it. i am in the camp of hating the linear canned/phased content. in my opinion that destroys the freedom of an MMO. But this is a wrong discussion because if found out only the canned players are still active so I would loose that discussion here.
The same happened with the D3 AH. A very small percentage of players succeeded in closing it down while the other 95% where very disappointed and dropped the game after the AH disappeared. The 5% that did not liked the AH are the same ones that prefer linear content in WoW
That is easily countered by giving only paid accounts access to the auction house and limit the “free” auctions to 100 per account per day.
i am on outland with the character i am trying to play. because trollbane has maybe 10 players in total?
just take most, if not all ideas from GW2 AH and also join AH’s so that each AH has the amount of servers it takes to be the size of silvermoon/draenor.
one big thing in GW2 is that each item has only one listing. so it doesn’t matter if people put a million iron ore on the AH, you will only see 1 listing, and it will always be the cheapest.
this will:
stop delay from having hundreds of listings for just 1 item. there will only ever be 1 listing.
stop undercutting, but not stop it. people will keep undercutting, but we wont see it. we will just see the cheapest item and benefit from the people who want to make the sale, being the cheapest price, so they are the one who’s item is sold first.
also:
a) there is no deposit fee, only AH cut,
b) there is no maximum listing time. (48 hours is max in wow). this is great for limited items that you want to sell, but have a limited market and often might not sell within 48 hours. the downside is that if its a common item, if you charge too much, your listing will be lost and never seen because only the current cheapest item will be listed. but this is not a bad thing overall as it makes people want to sell at the cheapest price possible to make a sale.
has this been stopped? cause i have seen many postings for BfA ore in stacks of 1.
i really do encourage people to look at some videos of the GW2 AH if they haven’t played GW2 itself.
Wtf you talking about ? Anyone could “succeed” with the AH if they invest enough time to understand what is working and are ready to farm when needed. What prevents players from earning gold is lazyness and unwillingness to farm.
I don’t even understand what you find wrong with your ah although there are thousands of potions, enchant, food and millions of mats currently on sale.
Terrible idea, already explained by puny
Why would it even make sense ? Some mats have a 1 silver fee while anchor weed has a few gold based on your selling Price. Easy as hell to abuse your suggestion. Sell the costly items first then only sell cheap items past the 100th.
“I have the one and only truth, all these idiots with their reason and arguments are lying to you !”
Yeah good idea mate, you do not make any sense at this point.
I’m sorry I’ve just realised you said you were on Outland, I looked up the character you were posting on. Outland is not connected to other realms and has a High population.
The free auctions thing is just plain wrong IMO it will cause problems and will certainly see a rise in the listings of items in stacks of 1. There are expenses in game everyone has to pay, like repairs, for auctions, learning new profession skills etc. Anyone can make enough in game currency to sell auctions. You may have to start smaller and wait for income from auctions before you can do lots of listings but everyone can build up to that. It just takes time. There is no discrimination. you could even do some questing on a main to send some funds to your selling alt.
You may be trying to sell things that are hard to sell, you mentioned dream shards, they are from a much older expansion. There isn’t really a high demand for those.
It is exactly the opposite Punyelf… if you have 200 linen cloth, right now you would sell 200 auctions of 1 linen cloth. result: Annoyed players, heavy load AH, etc. In the system I am suggesting, the seller would think, "Hey, if I make these 1 or 10 auctions, it doesn’t give me a risk because I have 100 “free” auctions per day. So i will make 10 auctions instead of 200.
The reason why the items I am trying to sell are not on the AH, is only because posting those will make you instant bankrupt.
I don’t care about the currency, I was a millionaire in TBC, maybe one of the first ones. I do care about a proper system that is accessible for anyone and trying to propose a good solution. Right now, it might work for the ones that are just playing the latest content, but that is a not a good thing of an MMO, that is just canned content. I would like to experience an MMO with unlimited freedom and possibilities but that is gone so it seems and the players as well. I warned for the reactions of the players in the first post.
Getting access to all content at any time at your own pace in the current system is pretty demotivating because everything including the auction house works against you. Following the story line and join raids with 1 button is fine for the small number of players, but that is just the same as watching a show on Netflix and has nothing to do with the initial thoughts of an MMO like WoW.
You might understand that I subbed again because of the upcoming wow classic but I thought, let’s give it a try again but man, this is a terrible experience.
I might just wait for classic wow and I guess this is the wrong audience again.
Or the person thinks oh great I am not penalised for selling in stacks of 1s, something the game currently does penalise. I can do 100 stacks of one and not pay a penny for selling them this way.
I have never understood why some seek to fill the AH with stacks of 1s but with nothing to stop them doing it, it will only become worse. I presume it’s because their listings show first to most people depending on how they view the AH.
It only seems a good solution to you (although there may be others ofc). The current system is fair and anyone can use it.
Classic WoW will not give anyone a free pass on the AH either. There are even more gold sinks than in Retail.
The AH has not changed much through the various expansions. The only thing that has changed is that the auction houses are all connected up to each other and not treated as separate locations and both Alliance and Horde see the same listings.
They are working on it. After the changes to the deposit cost they said they are working on a complete ah overhaul. Wouldn’t be surprised if it came out at the same time as an annoucement of merging all realms but they have a lot of server issues to fix to make it happen.
Suprisingly i still see people do this, i dont think they are aware of those changes.
On the other hand if i post 200 veiled crystals in a single stack., the auction house fee is so damned much it makes me cry. 20% is alot. I would try to sell them in the trade chat, but you know 90% of the people in the tradechat are people from a server group i cant trade with
i think the auction house is fine fee wise for the most part but i really wished they did an ui overhaul. so i guess we just have to wait for that and pray they dont screw it up.
let me buy x amount of a y stacked amount of listed items though. then i d be happy.
