Cross-Faction Auction House in Warlords of Draenor

Originally Posted by NexosHunter

Whats the point of factions now?
:<

It's not as if the factions stand or fall on having separate auction houses...

How about different races, cities, zones, lore, pvp? Names on the AH don't mean anything to me now, so they won't mean anything in WoD which means I won't care if something has been posted by someone on Alliance or Horde.

Should add the "On given servers" portion. The way the post before the blue post is makes it sound like it will be on ALL servers, were it will instead likely be on select extremely one-sided servers (Illidan, Stormrage, ect).

Originally Posted by Cheerbleeder

Veteran player here and this change I thought would never happen in Warcraft. This is the end of what was a great journey my fellow pixel friends.

#ripazeroth

Another veteran player here, and you along with others in this thread are being a drama llamas.

#Itdoesn'tmatter.

Originally Posted by NexosHunter

Whats the point of factions now?

What was the point of factions before? Nothing but limit you to 1/2 of races available. And please skip me the "pvp" and "faction pride" parts.

Originally Posted by l33t

What was the point of factions before? Nothing but limit you to 1/2 of races available. And please skip me the "pvp" and "faction pride" parts.

If one doesn't like factions, there are mmos without them.

If they ever decided to merge the factions, I'd be out of here, that would be the last straw, seeing gnomes in Orgrimmar and Undercity or Undead and trolls in Darnassus and Ironforge, and all the Warcraft universe lore swept under the rug.

Like it or not, but faction pride is a thing, and so is the PVP.

Why not just merge factions,too? Blizzard what are you doing.

Originally Posted by Cheerbleeder

Veteran player here and this change I thought would never happen in Warcraft. This is the end of what was a great journey my fellow pixel friends.

#ripazeroth

Veteran player here and I see no difference between having a market with more participants back when more people played and a market with more participants from having both factions use it. This is like being upset they added an AH to SW and Darnasus.

If it's so important to you that nobody on the other faction buys your stuff (or gets gold from stuff you're buying), bark in trade chat.

Thank goodness. Finally some good news. Love this change.

Now if they would allow cross-faction gold mailing or just merge gold all into one pot on your account (like D3).

The one and only actual reason for AH merge is to stop crossfaction arbitrage via Neutral AH.
Considering the nice shiny monies server and factions transfer bring in, Horde and Alliance will be happily at each other's throats when Sargeras lands on Azeroth.

Originally Posted by Boubouille

Look at me i m posting news.

Are you on a horse ?

Originally Posted by ShadowyFanatic

If you don't get the purpose of 2 or more factions in a game with PvP servers... then I don't think you can be helped. The factions are split to limit the races you can play, it's designed around lore and to create and enable player vs player interaction. That's... basically it.

You can easily just kill whatever you want. You don't need a so-called "lore" reason to kill orc and to spare human. In fact, this way you'll have twice the people to kill. Just as it was on TI with censer item. That's basically it.

Originally Posted by Rorcanna

Like it or not, but faction pride is a thing, and so is the PVP.

I don't care mostly. But lets look at this from a practical point of view. I start playing WoW with a kinda big community of real-life friends. Most of them wanted to join Alliance, so we decided to do so. But my favourite race was Undead. So it was either play a character you don't like, or don't play with people you like. Either way it was a lose (for me).

Factions would mean something if there were a real war going on, and by war I mean endless pvp throughout the world based on territory control. Dividing playerbase into two parts just for the sake of dividing does not look practical to me. Yes, it is a ruleset of this particular game, and we all must play as rules say; but please don't pretend factions actually mean anything beyond crying "Loktar Ogar" during beer times with friends.

I guess it is going to be pretty weird if someone buys an epic gear made by me (553 belt for example) and then they kill me in pvp (or I kill them.) It's almost as if I helped them kill me? I mean over all I don't think this is a bad change, just strange...

To everyone who'll scream and cry about this going against the faction war aspect of the game: we already have a neutral AH in the game. It's just not the one commonly used. Now it'll become the standard instead. And I say, what a good thing. A unified economy makes for a stronger one. People who got rich exploiting faction disparity will just have to work harder. Or you could always quit in protest, I'm sure the waves of you doing so will totally reverse this change...

All is far in War and Capitalism. You don't care about who'se faction the money comes from, you just want the money!

Interesting change...I'm neutral about it as most of the names on the AH selling things mean nothing to me AND since I play both sides this means prices will be normalized for my cross faction alts (seriously, some enchants for my Horde are like 2,000 gold while for my Alliance the same one is 500-900g on the same server).

So we can sell eachother stuff on the Auction House but we are unable to speak the same language or be allies... I would think cross-realm Auction House would make more sense than cross-faction

Originally Posted by Xandy

So we can sell eachother stuff on the Auction House but we are unable to speak the same language or be allies... I would think cross-realm Auction House would make more sense than cross-faction

Gold is a universal language.

Is this another way of Blizzard not having to remove dead servers?

This is a game-play and quality of life change that has no basis or bearing on the game lore. I'm sort of puzzled that people are even bringing it up as if it were.

Originally Posted by Kevra

I guess it is going to be pretty weird if someone buys an epic gear made by me (553 belt for example) and then they kill me in pvp (or I kill them.) It's almost as if I helped them kill me? I mean over all I don't think this is a bad change, just strange...

Usually when we craft epics they have race restrictions (as in, if you're a dwarf and created a plate belt it can only be used by alliance races). Maybe those items will just show a warning at the AH, like if you were a warlock trying to buy plate armor.

This is actually the first real necessary change I've seen come since they announced WoD. Having separate faction auction houses has just led to economic issues, as well as people with 2 accounts on faction-imbalanced servers effectively gaming the system by smuggling low cost goods from the high-pop side to the low-pop side and marking up as much as 400% in some cases. Ultimately this means more competition which is good for both the sellers (who can now sell things quicker due to more demand) and the buyer (who gets lower prices).