The auction house on classic is getting ridiculous. It’s slow and it doesn’t work. It takes HOURS to use it because we get these error messages after every item. Give us the one from retail, please, or make two auction houses. One for us who wants to use the function and the old one for those who wants it for the nostalgia. Don’t connect them please.
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This is actually a feature not a bug, You see blizzard throttles the auction house bandwith to combat the addons that make the auction house viable, And with the prepatch they made that throttle more aggressive.
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It’s kind of a useless feature that makes the function unusable.
The auction house from retail would remove all those addons completely.
might as well disable/ban all addons from the game in that case idk ,this is OMEGA CRINGE and blizzard is literally shooting themselves in the foot
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“UUHM GUYS LETS MAKE OUR GAME CRAP CUS PEOPLE WANNA USE ADDONS”
100% The right mindset ,prosperity is on the horizon
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More like “lets try and allow players to use the AH as those addons are slowing it down far too much”.
Personally I think any addon that scans the full AH should be banned.
What? Blizzard provide a function specifically for scanning the whole AH in a single transaction. Which most addons use without hurting the servers at all. Others use data from blizzard’s API and inject it into the LUA data directly. No addons should be live scanning the whole AH item by item and I don’t think any do.
If you’re going to get upset about addons, you need to at least know which functions are causing the problems.
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I think you are wrong about that. Tell me, what does the API connect to if not the AH data?
GetAll (the in game one) sends a single request, the server responds with bulk traffic of all auctions/prices etc. To send it takes the server milliseconds. It doesn’t need to sort the data so it just sends it in bulk. The client side then sorts the data (which is what takes up to 30secs). You can only run this once every 15 mins. This was added by Blizzard in wrath of the lich king retail.
The other addons that use Blizzard’s API are using the data blizzard provide NOT from within the game at all. I could guess multiple ways they’re doing this in order to not hurt servers. Doesn’t matter, they provide the data.
It’s not sending the command that’s the problem it’s the server sending the data back.
Yes, and with the normal scanning it sorts and filters the results then sends them in pages, meaning multiple queries. GetAll just sends it unsorted, unfiltered. This puts a miniscule load on the server compared to the normal search.
My suspicion is that cancels and posts are what put the worst load on the servers and after that specific searches, because filtering and sorting very large auction houses can indeed put some strain on the server.
But for cancelling and posting you need to consider this. To prevent duping or loss of items, every single cancel and post transaction must be completed or completely failed. I think for this reason they really put the most load on the servers. What’s happened is, blizzard expanded the number of players per server with layers. But, the auction house is shared and this is really taking a hammering with more players actively working it.
I think more bulk operations with timeouts like GetAll but for posting and cancelling are the way forward. But, that’s effort we won’t get from them.
That’s why they should implement the AH from retail. You don’t need any addons for that. Everything is so simple with that one. You put everything up with one click and you buy whatever you want with one click.
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