There is a tragedy with the AH in almost every expansion.
Blizzard, your player base doesn’t know how to deal with the AH. This is a clear, undisputable fact.
Bots come and destroy the entire economy in the game. For the most part you can see, be it gear, be it food, be it materials NO MATTER WHAT, almost 60/70/80% undercut.
The bad thing here is that your player base follows this and everything has to happen ‘‘quickly quickly’’ in their minds so that they don’t even notice that they have a (be it whatever) when the standard price is 1000g, that they put this down to 200g and those who are in the AH follow this ‘‘train’’ and suddenly there are dozens of things for 200g. The next person takes it down again to 150 and then they ask themselves why the economy is destroyed. It is very obvious.
Now to the solution.
Be the buyer and seller yourself. Very easy.
An example of Escape From Tarkov that many may not know. There is an item called ‘‘Bitcoin’’, this Bitcoin in the game adapts to the Bitcoin in the real world.
You are a multi billion dollar company. You should be able to add something like that too.
You have something like that. If we sell something in the AH, the game automatically takes commission from the sales we make (in the AH).
If necessary, you can adjust the price of a product, e.g.
You buy 1x unit = 50g from us
If a player buys this unit he/she should pay a few percent if necessary 1x unit = 55g.
This would make the economy a LOT easier, improve it significantly, destroy the bots and build in a healthy economy so that players at least get what they deserve for their hard work, even if it has to be done quickly in their minds.