Patch 9.2.7 PTR - Build 44444

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Patch 9.2.7 PTR - Build 44444
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World of Warcraft Version 9.2.7 PTR

AUCTION HOUSE UPDATE: REGION-WIDE COMMODITIES

• Auction Houses across all realms on a given region will now share commodity listings (gems, herbs, flasks, consumables, etc.). Items that aren’t commodities–like armor and weapons–will continue to be realm-specific.
  
  • Developers’ note: The Auction House you know and use today should look and feel exactly the same; it’ll just have way more buyers and sellers available to you for commodities. We’d love for players to hop on the PTR, copy over their characters, and help us test the Auction House across the entire PTR region. We might schedule a specific time in a few weeks for everyone to hop on at the same time to help stress it, details tbd.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• A new chat channel for searching or advertisement of services like raiding, dungeons, or PvP activities has been added: Trade (Services).
  
  • Developers’ note: The trade channel that’s been in the game for 18 years will continue to exist, but we wanted to add a new channel to direct messages about the request and advertisement of services like raiding, dungeons, or PvP activities. If you’re looking to buy or sell these kind of services, this is the channel for you! If you’re not interested in those, you can leave the channel and avoid the noise, or move it into its own chat tab. We believe that with this new distinction, you’ll be able to keep Trade chat for the traditional buying and selling of items and professions, and not other chatter.

[plz delete account]

Oh no they are banning us using normal trade for normal moonguard shit

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Wow, what an amazingly terrible change for people who actually try to make gold from the AH.

[hobskins]

People will still use trade chat to chat with one another. However, I hope with this change it will move a lot of the spam like guilds or boosting services to another channel where I don't have to see it. More than likely this change will do nothing.

[SinR]

People will still use trade chat to chat with one another. However, I hope with this change it will move a lot of the spam like guilds or boosting services to another channel where I don't have to see it. More than likely this change will do nothing.

Yeah, nobody gonna use the Services channel

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Wow, what an amazingly terrible change for people who actually try to make gold from the AH.

Please, explain.

[Hitei]

Wow, what an amazingly terrible change for people who actually try to make gold from the AH.

How? Things will be a steadier, slightly lower price and you now have so many buyers and sellers that items will move extremely fast.

[Alayea]

What are they hoping for, exactly, with opening the auction house up for an entire region with regards to defined commodities?

[Nynax]

Wow, what an amazingly terrible change for people who actually try to make gold from the AH.

Right!?!? It's just like real life where what's good for consumers is terrible for businesses. Total bullshit imo.

/s

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Please, explain.

It becomes practically impossible to manipulate the prices on commodities when the market is going to be so saturated with participants. The abundance of the goods will kill prices, and trying to get your shit sold is going to be even harder when you're competing against hundreds/thousands of other sellers instead of dozens.

Right!?!? It's just like real life where what's good for consumers is terrible for businesses. Total bullshit imo.

/s

Its almost like a video game isn't real life, and I'd like to enjoy a power fantasy in a video game I play for fun.

[Uselessrouge]

oh nice now poeple on smaller servers cant just buyout all the stuff to manipulate prices

[kranur]

Making a new Trade (Services) channel doesn't mean shit if it doesn't come with "Players who continue to advertise on any other public channel will have actions taken against their account!"

Will be interesting to see how the region AH works. Particularly if it's even usable when thousands of people try to buy and sell particular items at the same time without an endless result of "That item is no longer available"

[Caprias]

Yeah, nobody gonna use the Services channel

They will have to to net get reported though.

[Toybox]

It becomes practically impossible to manipulate the prices on commodities when the market is going to be so saturated with participants. The abundance of the goods will kill prices, and trying to get your shit sold is going to be even harder when you're competing against hundreds/thousands of other sellers instead of dozens.

My heart bleeds.

This is huge for smaller realms! I wonder if they're going to block you from buying anything other than the cheapest auctions this way, otherwise they've also given us a way to move unlimited gold across realms - Which again, would be great!

[Julmara]

oh god finally a boosting chat to get rid of all the spam

[TEHPALLYTANK]

My heart bleeds.

This is huge for smaller realms! I wonder if they're going to block you from buying anything other than the cheapest auctions this way, otherwise they've also given us a way to move unlimited gold across realms - Which again, would be great!

You're already blocked from buying anything other than the cheapest auctions first when buying commodities, it has been that way since at least the start of SL.

[Toybox]

You're already blocked from buying anything other than the cheapest auctions first when buying commodities, it has been that way since at least the start of SL.

Ahh, I've not played for a few months so I couldn't remember. There's always weird old meta gems & cogwheels you can list at crazy prices to move gold across, I suppose Wouldn't be too hard to move gold across unless they limited it to current expansion stuff only...

[plz delete account]

You're already blocked from buying anything other than the cheapest auctions first when buying commodities, it has been that way since at least the start of SL.

You... haven't bought trade goods, flasks, or commodities have you

[Saltysquidoon]

It becomes practically impossible to manipulate the prices on commodities when the market is going to be so saturated with participants. The abundance of the goods will kill prices, and trying to get your shit sold is going to be even harder when you're competing against hundreds/thousands of other sellers instead of dozens.

I think if you're complaining about market manipulation being harder to do you need to take a second to consider your position on the issue.

[Rezzyk]

What are they hoping for, exactly, with opening the auction house up for an entire region with regards to defined commodities?

Dead servers being able to purchase things at a decent cost? I'm all for this!

[TEHPALLYTANK]

I think if you're complaining about market manipulation being harder to do you need to take a second to consider your position on the issue.

I have considered my position quite thoroughly, I did back when I got into playing the AH for the 3 months I was subbed to SL. I'm totally fine with market manipulation in a video game, because it isn't the real world. The consequences are quite literally immaterial, the value of everything is fictitious and the good themselves are also fictitious.

I get why it is a bad thing in real life, but I don't get why people would be objecting to the principle of it in a video game (aside from it slightly inconveniencing them).