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Keep the current auction house or make a new one?
MidknightWolf
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Seen some topics about this, lets do a simple vote.
Edited by MidknightWolf on August 6, 2016 8:13PM Keep the current auction house or make a new one? 435 votes
Keep the current system.
51%
222 votes
Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.
48%
213 votes
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zergbase_ESO✭✭✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.centralize it already. No need for this mess of traders.
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MidknightWolf✭✭✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.Agreed. I think it is not only counter-intuitive, but it also makes a mess of the game. It's not effective, nor is it efficient.
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Tandor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.It doesn't need to be an auction house as such, but the trading system does need to be changed so as to open it up to everyone and not just the few trading guilds (often linked) that have the market completely cornered. -
GarnetFire17✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.People have invested too much time and effort to build trading guilds under the current system to just take away all their hard work has earned them. I would not give ZOS one more penny if they made this change. It would be a horrible injustice.
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MidknightWolf✭✭✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.GarnetFire17 wrote: »People have invested too much time and effort to build trading guilds under the current system to just take away all their hard work has earned them. I would not give ZOS one more penny if they made this change. It would be a horrible injustice.
I disagree. The guild would just have to move their inventory to the new, just, and fair auction house. -
ADarklore✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Keep the current system.Whatever ZOS decides, they need to keep it compatible with ES lore... and a global AH would not fit and would be completely lore and immersion breaking. Besides that, I don't believe ZOS is even contemplating making any changes, every time it has been mentioned they just state they have no intention of adding an AH.Started ESO: May 2015-Quit: Sept 2018
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MidknightWolf✭✭✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.Also another answer, would be:
Keep auction houses the way they are now, separated by guilds, but have one place in each major city we can browse all the auction houses from one place.
I would even be cool with that. Or list every item from the central broker with a tag next to it telling us which guild the item is coming from. -
RAGUNAnoOne✭✭✭✭✭
✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.the only issue I see is that it is the ONLY reliable gold sink in the game unless the houses charge a large fee for access the gold inflation issue will go through the roof...PS4 NA
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esometric✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.make this system and guilds stores can work how works now
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/283416/trade-guild-dlc-with-custom-shops-for-solo-players#latest -
smacx250✭✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.For reference, some other polls in the past year (polls in the last year with "auction house" in the title):
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/216044/do-you-want-an-auuction-house/p1
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/221331/do-you-think-they-need-a-mega-auction-house-instead-of-individual-guild-traders/p1
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/238306/are-you-satisfied-without-a-player-wide-auction-house/p1
Summary: At least over the past year, preference for an auction house has not been in the majority. -
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✭✭Keep the current system.Current system works fine. Why does this MMO have to be like every other MMO? I'm guessing you think if you complain enough, zos will give you what you want. Thing is, zos has their own agenda, and rarely makes changes based on player perspective, other than to skills. BTW, only zos knows what their agenda is, and they keep it locked down tight.PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
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Abeille✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.Keep it.
But change the awful UI please. Integrate the Awesome Guild Store addon to the base game like you did with Lootdrop.Just so that everyone knows, my Altmer still can't have black hair. About a dozen of Altmer NPCs in the game have black hair. Just saying.
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✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.I collect hundreds of thousands of gold with the current guild trader system per month. I am swimming in gold. In theory, I can't complain. But I do not feel good this way anymore. The current system is a flawed system making the rich guilds richer and neglecting the poor. I also do not know what to do with all the gold anymore, there is not even a barber shop to spend it. Therefore, I am all for scraping the current system and making a general auction house with equal trade chances for everybody.
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GarnetFire17✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.MidknightWolf wrote: »GarnetFire17 wrote: »People have invested too much time and effort to build trading guilds under the current system to just take away all their hard work has earned them. I would not give ZOS one more penny if they made this change. It would be a horrible injustice.
I disagree. The guild would just have to move their inventory to the new, just, and fair auction house.
And then what advantage do those in the guild get for all their hard work of building a top guild? What would even be the point of having trading guild if not for having a prime location for you guildies to sell their items? That is the very reason why they have put in the hard work and pay more every week for better kiosk. Had their guild slowly climb the ladder to bigger and greater success. The current system is supremely fair. You pay more, you get a better spot, better opportunity for your guildies to sell their items, and the guild makes a name for itself. It's a great system. -
atwon23✭✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.Going vendor to vendor looking for specific items is a time consuming chore that needs to be streamlined. Not sure what the answer is, I just know I'm not happy with the current system.
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✭✭✭✭MidknightWolf wrote: »GarnetFire17 wrote: »People have invested too much time and effort to build trading guilds under the current system to just take away all their hard work has earned them. I would not give ZOS one more penny if they made this change. It would be a horrible injustice.
I disagree. The guild would just have to move their inventory to the new, just, and fair auction house.
The only thing a central auction house would be is new. I am in a large trading guild that gets a prime spot each week and in a social guild that most weeks can find a cheap spot off the beaten path. Fun thing is both places my stuff sells well. Seems very fair to me. I admit the individuals that refuse to join a guild are stuck with selling in zone chat, but that is a choice they made. Any guild has a chance at a trader and even in a bad location things sell.
A centralized auction house makes it much easier for a few players to manipulate prices and that would be neither just nor fair. -
Unsent.Soul✭✭✭✭✭
✭Keep the current system.MidknightWolf wrote: »GarnetFire17 wrote: »People have invested too much time and effort to build trading guilds under the current system to just take away all their hard work has earned them. I would not give ZOS one more penny if they made this change. It would be a horrible injustice.
I disagree. The guild would just have to move their inventory to the new, just, and fair auction house.
Fair... are you serious? Maybe I've just had different experiences. Last AH I took part in I zmade out like a bandit, till blizzard disabled selling items for cash.
Also we don't currently have an auction house, why put it in title like it's a thing? -
GarnetFire17✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.I do enjoy going vendor to vendor so :P. that's called shopping.
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✭✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.The notion that the market is cornered by a few guilds is completely false. This might only seem true to those who only shop in Rawl. There are other high traffic zones and plenty of opportunity for new, well-run trade guilds to emerge.
There is irony in this because a central AH would lead to a small minority cornering markets with little effort. -
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✭✭Scrap the original guild auction houses and make one simple central auction house everyone can use.
Nope. The currenty system is supremely unfair. Because gold can buy the best sales places, the rich guilds get a MONOPOLY on the best spots, making them even richer and more powerful - while newcomers have no good place to sell their stuff. This is not how an MMO should work.GarnetFire17 wrote: »The current system is supremely fair. You pay more, you get a better spot.
Suggestion if a general Auction House is not desired: Reserve one trader on each place where everybody can sell stuff for a %-fee that is dependent on the inflation. This way, the guild trader system would stay in place, but all people would have a chance to sell, and ZOS could reduce inflation by adjusting the fee accordingly.
Edited by BalticBlues on August 6, 2016 9:32PM -
umagon✭✭✭✭✭I would like to see them redesign the system. I don't see any reason to be paying a player to trade in game. If they want to keep the guild trader system that's fine, but they need to add a central location at faction's capital city where people who prefer to not be involved with guilds can trade. The worst part of the system has to be how time consuming it is going to each individual trader and having to re-input the search criteria. They also need to add trader channels to players can advertise without worrying about disrupting zone chat. Knowing zos I can bet what will happen they will make an "trader assistant" who can search all the trade guilds for you; and charge 15,000 crowns for it.
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GarnetFire17✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.tweeks they should think about. guild options to charge different taxes, and fees, and guilds gets all of them. Can set taxes to 0% if it wants.
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Unsent.Soul✭✭✭✭✭
✭Keep the current system.Vipstaakki wrote: »Leave the guild traders alone!
we dont need you and your crap system, just they add other system of trade and you will able to trade in your guild how you trading only noones come to buy.
Completely shocked you haven't been temp banned yet. -
Solariken✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Keep the current system.The current system is great but I feel it would be more fair if guilds just bought trader access from a central NPC and then each individual trader would feature a random guild store each day. This would even the playing field for trade guilds.Edited by Solariken on August 6, 2016 9:41PM
