Announced change to AH lacks teeth

[Unforgivenn]

its weird, people where using thoses addons since they was released, and never caused any issue on AH, in every expansion launch (i played all) never had any issues like that..

the ah slowness started after pre-patch 8.0.1 and went worse with bfa release.. but, knowing blizzard, instead of getting into the problem (probably a server issue or software related), they prefer to increase deposit cost LOL

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Auction House

[Following server restarts] The deposit for certain tradeskill goods has increased by 20% of the asking price of a single unit. This cost is constant, regardless of stack size. As with the standard deposit, this is returned to the seller when the auction successfully sells.

yeah, the "PTR" is the US Live realms, so EU got it working flawlessly while we suffer from bugs, as always..

[rda]

Auction House

[Following server restarts] The deposit for certain tradeskill goods has increased by 20% of the asking price of a single unit. This cost is constant, regardless of stack size. As with the standard deposit, this is returned to the seller when the auction successfully sells.

yeah, the "PTR" is the US Live realms, so EU got it working flawlessly while we suffer from bugs, as always..

Are you saying this is going live on US?

If so, LOL at "testing thoroughly" once again, but more importantly, it is good in that if this measure is destined to fail like I think, it is better for it to fail fast to give room to better measures.

[TwoCenk]

I hope this don't effected tome of tranq. mind. It's allready got insane deposit ( 1+ gold for 12 hours ), and people mostly buy 5-20 stack.

[Deleted]

Or maybe, but just maaaayyyybeeeee they could add computational power for the auction house? Or for the whole realms with highpop, not sure how their infrastructure looks, but surely until they fix the problems in the legacy code they could increase the power of the servers.....

[S7orm]

Aaaaand transmog is dead

[Unforgivenn]

Are you saying this is going live on US?

If so, LOL at "testing thoroughly" once again, but more importantly, it is good in that if this measure is destined to fail like I think, it is better for it to fail fast to give room to better measures.

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...august-27-2018

its on hotfix page, so yeah

[Deleted]

How about items of low vendor value, like 2s and below, can only be placed in stacks of minimum 10?

That seems like a reasonable change.

[rda]

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...august-27-2018

its on hotfix page, so yeah

Thanks for the link.

Well, that's good. Let's now see if this works. (If I knew they'd be this quick, I wouldn't have made a thread and would have just waited. Them being quick is a positive surprise.)

[SoulSoBreezy]

So, Blizzard, please reconsider and do something more direct. Either limit the number of posts per account per day or do something similar.

Then I'd just make more accounts. This band-aid appears to be both the most effective and least intrusive on player behavior.

[rda]

Then I'd just make more accounts.

This is a bit like saying "then I'd just pay more deposit".

We'll see whether the band-aid is effective soon enough. I don't think it will be effective, but with how quick they were this time, if it fails, it will at least fail fast and we won't spend too much time on it (and if it works, I'd be glad it worked and will be happy to say that I was wrong and missed something important).

[Nataya]

Why should blizzard limit number of posts per account per day? Why are you so against the free market? Stop limiting freedom.

They should give discounts in deposits if you increase the stack count and enable people to buy as much as they want from that stack instead of having to buy the whole stack. That way you just post all that you have at a price and people can buy as much or little as they want.

and enable people to buy as much as they want from that stack

Problem solved.

[SoulSoBreezy]

This is a bit like saying "then I'd just pay more deposit".

We'll see whether the band-aid is effective soon enough. I don't think it will be effective, but with how quick they were this time, if it fails, it will at least fail fast and we won't spend too much time on it (and if it works, I'd be glad it worked and will be happy to say that I was wrong and missed something important).

Point being that we and Blizzard know that this fix is both temporary and inadequate, otherwise they'd say this is the fix.
We'll see how this plays out over the next week or two, now to wait for guild banks =(

[Koloss]

creating an AH like gw2 has, might help with the problem...people can just dump all of their items in their and people can choose how many they want to buy, automatically buying the cheapest ones

Exactly. They already took the idea of dynamic scaling and stuff i would welcome a gw2 style AH.

[Toby451]

The problem isn't the single stacks. If people didn't buy the single stacks then they wouldn't be posted. People against the single stacks need to remember that this is America and the free market rules. I always post single stacks and I probably post 400 AH a day. Almost everything gets sold every day. Don't blame the players, blame the game.

A) This is not "America". lol...............
B) You are a part of the problem. I wish everyone thought this way and the AH would take 20 minutes to post anything. I am sure you would change your mind if posting your 400 auctions a day took you 6 hours.
C) It is Blizzard's fault. The AH is wayyyy outdated. If people want to post 1,000 single stacks they should be able to. however, the current AH simply can't handle the load. Yes, ultimately it is Blizzard's fault. But don't pretend like people, such as you, posting hundreds of items isn't at the core of the problem.

[Deleted]

The problem isn't the single stacks. If people didn't buy the single stacks then they wouldn't be posted. People against the single stacks need to remember that this is America and the free market rules. I always post single stacks and I probably post 400 AH a day. Almost everything gets sold every day. Don't blame the players, blame the game.

First of all there are more EU players so this is EU you can suck it up El Trumpo.

Second, the problem is that people making endless 1 stack of items are making AH lagging af, TSM and Auctioneer are literally taking 10 minutes for a query.

[munkeyinorbit]

First of all there are more EU players so this is EU you can suck it up El Trumpo.

Second, the problem is that people making endless 1 stack of items are making AH lagging af, TSM and Auctioneer are literally taking 10 minutes for a query.

Hahahaha. Its an American game. Don't like it? Maybe go to a European made game and then you can have all the socialism you want. The single stack items are not the issue. The single stack items with no buyout are. It is clear that your education system in eurosocialstan is lacking if you cannot figure out the difference.

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A) This is not "America". lol...............
B) You are a part of the problem. I wish everyone thought this way and the AH would take 20 minutes to post anything. I am sure you would change your mind if posting your 400 auctions a day took you 6 hours.
C) It is Blizzard's fault. The AH is wayyyy outdated. If people want to post 1,000 single stacks they should be able to. however, the current AH simply can't handle the load. Yes, ultimately it is Blizzard's fault. But don't pretend like people, such as you, posting hundreds of items isn't at the core of the problem.

It is an American game with American values. LOL.

It is the free market. If people are buying single stacks let them buy single stacks. There is no need to regulate everything like the EU does. Don't like the free market? Play another game buddy.

Sure. Blizzard needs to optimise the AH but what they have done now should help. Eliminate the single stack items with no buyouts.

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People need to remember the game is in Azeroth and Blizzard rules.

Blizzard is an American company with American rules. The fucking elves didn't make the AH. Blizzard did.

[rda]

The single stack items are not the issue. The single stack items with no buyout are.

I just re-checked several commodities to confirm and the number of posts with no buyouts is tiny compared to the number of posts with buyouts. Eg, monelite ore, 5 items posted without buyouts, 2400+ items posted with buyouts.

It's not that.

[Deleted]

Hahahaha. Its an American game. Don't like it? Maybe go to a European made game and then you can have all the socialism you want. The single stack items are not the issue. The single stack items with no buyout are. It is clear that your education system in eurosocialstan is lacking if you cannot figure out the difference.

Call me when your parents die to a disease we have covered in our socialism paradise but you can't afford due to your amazing capitalism.

[Deleted]

its weird, people where using thoses addons since they was released, and never caused any issue on AH, in every expansion launch (i played all) never had any issues like that..

the ah slowness started after pre-patch 8.0.1 and went worse with bfa release.. but, knowing blizzard, instead of getting into the problem (probably a server issue or software related), they prefer to increase deposit cost LOL

edit:

Auction House

[Following server restarts] The deposit for certain tradeskill goods has increased by 20% of the asking price of a single unit. This cost is constant, regardless of stack size. As with the standard deposit, this is returned to the seller when the auction successfully sells.

yeah, the "PTR" is the US Live realms, so EU got it working flawlessly while we suffer from bugs, as always..

It was the same in Legion. I definitely remember getting aids while trying to buy some mats at the start of legion

[Azerate]

It doesn't really apply to me cause my server is low pop, but they should definitely do something radical, limiting daily sales would be one answer. AH on Draenor is impossible to navigate through