I honestly have no idea why anyone would ever think that not having an AH would deter gold farmers in any way, they benefit the most from smaller markets, just like any other greedy folks.
So in games with a global AH you talk to every player that buys your stuff from said AH?
It's a stupid decision and it costs them players.
It's a stupid decision and it costs them players.
Of course it is. Game is two weeks old and people are just leaving in droves. But they're not.
I appreciate your politeness so let me respond as politely as I can:
This game does not and will not (according to the people you pay to play this game) have a global auction house.
They are not forcing anyone to do anything. You have willingly purchased the game and paid a subscription fee. As have I, knowing full well about the absence of a centralized auction house. In contrast, people advocating for the implementation of an auction house want to force those of us who like the existing system to play their way despite the fact that these same people can willingly unsubscribe from this game and go play one or more of literally hundreds of other MMOs that, to their delight, include a centralized auction house.
It's a stupid decision and it costs them players.
Of course it is. Game is two weeks old and people are just leaving in droves. But they're not.
I appreciate your politeness so let me respond as politely as I can:
This game does not and will not (according to the people you pay to play this game) have a global auction house.
They are not forcing anyone to do anything. You have willingly purchased the game and paid a subscription fee. As have I, knowing full well about the absence of a centralized auction house. In contrast, people advocating for the implementation of an auction house want to force those of us who like the existing system to play their way despite the fact that these same people can willingly unsubscribe from this game and go play one or more of literally hundreds of other MMOs that, to their delight, include a centralized auction house.
so let me see if i get your statement right:
players who want to have a global store are trying to force the rest into a system they less prefer, when the first group can just unsub and play something else, and that is wrong.
as opposed to those who want guild stores who want to force the rest into a system they less prefer, when the first group can just unsub and play something else, and that is ok.
edit: noone here can force anyone to do anything. we can give feedback to the devs and they will decide. so at best i think you are being dramatic.
It's a stupid decision and it costs them players.
Of course it is. Game is two weeks old and people are just leaving in droves. But they're not.
I appreciate your politeness so let me respond as politely as I can:
This game does not and will not (according to the people you pay to play this game) have a global auction house.
They are not forcing anyone to do anything. You have willingly purchased the game and paid a subscription fee. As have I, knowing full well about the absence of a centralized auction house. In contrast, people advocating for the implementation of an auction house want to force those of us who like the existing system to play their way despite the fact that these same people can willingly unsubscribe from this game and go play one or more of literally hundreds of other MMOs that, to their delight, include a centralized auction house.
so let me see if i get your statement right:
players who want to have a global store are trying to force the rest into a system they less prefer, when the first group can just unsub and play something else, and that is wrong.
as opposed to those who want guild stores who want to force the rest into a system they less prefer, when the first group can just unsub and play something else, and that is ok.
No. We don't want guild stores. We have guild stores. It's the existing status quo in this game and you willingly have chosen to play within this system. You were at no point forced into anything.
Other games have a different status quo.
If you do not like the status quo in this game, play a game with a status quo that is acceptable to you.
edit: noone here can force anyone to do anything. we can give feedback to the devs and they will decide. so at best i think you are being dramatic.
No again. Being dramatic involves speculating on the vast number of people that will quit the game because of the trade system they don't like two weeks after the game was released..
apparently you cannot see your hypocrisy.
to say those that want change must leave is no more 'fair' or 'righteous' than saying those that dont want change should leave. you feel you have mroe right than i do in what this game is and will become. i disagree, i think the community should give feedback on what they want, and the devs will decide what is the best course of action.
since you think anyone that wants change should leave, should those that want the lag and bugs fixed just leave? after all that is the status quo, so if you dont like lag and bugs find a game with a less laggy less buggy status quo, right?
i do not blindly cling to what is, but constant look to what could be better. if people do not speak up, they will not be heard. *I* believe this is a good thing, that everyone should speak up. you apparently want free speech for those that will speak as you do.
apparently you cannot see your hypocrisy.
to say those that want change must leave is no more 'fair' or 'righteous' than saying those that dont want change should leave. you feel you have mroe right than i do in what this game is and will become. i disagree, i think the community should give feedback on what they want, and the devs will decide what is the best course of action.
I'm not saying you must leave. I am saying that if you do not like the game you should find a game you like. The devs have already decided and you're not going to like their decision. You can stay and play with the trade as it is with perhaps some enhancements to the Guild Store UI, such as a more intuitive search function or you can play a game where the developers have decided to include an auction house.since you think anyone that wants change should leave, should those that want the lag and bugs fixed just leave? after all that is the status quo, so if you dont like lag and bugs find a game with a less laggy less buggy status quo, right?
Bugs and lag are not working as intended. Guild stores are.i do not blindly cling to what is, but constant look to what could be better. if people do not speak up, they will not be heard. *I* believe this is a good thing, that everyone should speak up. you apparently want free speech for those that will speak as you do.
Better for who? For you? I like this game. I like the small scale trading. What other game can I play that has trade like this?
What other game can you play that has trade that you like? Not sure if there is a character limit for a post but I don't have the time to list every game that already has your "better" system.
Furthermore, and I think this is something that you are quite conveniently leaving out, this game is only two weeks post-release. Be honest now - do you really think you've given yourself enough time to acclimate to this different system? Or is it more likely that you've found yourself frustrated and rather than take the initiative to work within the system, you've chosen to come here, in a knee-jerk fashion, to ask for this change two weeks after launch?
*snip*
the arguements i have seen for guild stores are 'i like it' and various things that seem irrelevant. how is a guild with chat turned off more sociable than zone with zone turned on? how does guild stores help new players who are unable to sell items for actual market value because they cant get into the established trade guilds and thus have less money to pay for repairs, inventory, mounts? yeah global means gear they would buy would be more expensive, but since they could sell stuff for more, it would wash. but fixed costs - cash sinks- would be more affordable.
so no, not 'knee-jerk' but actually thought out.
i not only get it, you have simply reiterated my point. no argument as to why guild stores are *better* just you like them and zenimax wanted them. peppered with trying to diminish me with ad hominems such as suggestiong i must not have thought much about this, facetiousness with the doctorate statement. but never an argument.
devs change their minds, games change their devs. fact is nearly every game has made changes. they are not facists, they are capitalists. anyway, reasonable chance they will change their minds. other games have. SWTOR and vanguard were both more local in the beginning. and weighing my reasons why i think it is a bad idea versus your 'i like it' i at least doesnt hurt the chances.
mostly, however, my argument is with people who tell others to shut up. which is the only reason you are continuing to post, and the only reason i posted in this thread to begin with. and you say now it is ok for me to post, while telling me to stop saying what i am saying - implying your wishes take priority, mocking, and finally saying 'devs said never gonna happen.'
what? i have this thread all wrong? oh i thought it was titled, 'STOP ASKING FOR GLOBAL AUCTION HOUSE'
a global store does not force those who do not want one to use it! you would be forced to do nothing. nor were you forced to play a game, which you agreed, could change its gameplay at will. so i guess neither of us were forced.
anyway, cannot teach those that will not learn. so
knightblaster wrote: »AHs are very much in part to blame, due to gold farmers listing items for obscene prices on the AH. How do you think they make gold? That's how. WoW's expensive mounts and vanity items are gold *sinks*, taking money out of the economy, to slow inflation. The AH, with its highly priced gold-seller items, generates inflation.
In any case, my point is that while an AH always generates inflation, in a megaserver environment a global AH obviates the entire game by making the game about currency (because items are *always* more easily sourced by buying them on the AH due to the huge supply in a megaserver environment). It makes the game revolve around the gold. It's a terrible design. WoW was able to get away with it because even though its servers are much larger than the guilds here, they are much, much, much, much smaller than the megaserver here. A megaserver AH destroys the actual gameplay and reduces everything to gold generation -- to having a virtual job.
yes, make a global auction house!
1. it privides you better access to what you would want to buy, if you want to buy, and if you dont, then you can leave it alone.
2. current system has no player interaction on sales, unless you count spamming in /zone
3. you want to be in a guild with people that are only there to make money off of you? not my kind of guild.
4. low level resources that cost alot more gold would be bought by veteran players and likely sold by new players. this gives the new players a chance to get enough money to buy anything. it also would allow new players, who would not be able to get into the full established trade guilds, to actually find items to purchase.
5. trading guild stores will likley have higher prices since the gatherers would have no competition. global AH allows new players to easy sell their mats and make enough coin to compete with the veterans in purchasing items. new players will not be able to get into stablished trading guilds since they will be full and fill vacancies with higher level players that can add more. look at motifs: had we a global exchange they would sell at their true value (which i am sure is less then current) and reduce zone sells.
6. scenerio A: yours makes no sense because a global exchange is absolutely irrelevant. wouldnt need to spam in /zone with a global exchange, could just list it. as far as selling to guildmates and players that know you it is easier to do so with a global exchange. the guild store only makes it less personal to sell to guildmates, plus you have to charge them more to offset the store costs.
as a crafter in every game i played, not to make money, but to make items that help players - i very much hate this system. it stiffles me as a crafter. i have a small number of players i can craft to: my real guild, and 4 more guilds filled with people i never speak to. how is that better than my real guild and every other player that i never speak to?
eq2imora_ESO wrote: »I'm sorry, gold sellers didn't force me to sell that item for 100k. I sold it for that because that's what someone was willing to pay to be the first on the server with it.
I have more important things to do with my time than sit around and ask for things to buy or sell in zone chat.
I just removed myself from the economy, which benefits the supply/demand chain. Which I feel is the sole purpose of this crappy economic model. To make it more of a hassle than it needs to be in order to reduce supply and drive up demand.
As an aside, I crushed a purple today, got squat from them, and probably would have been better off vendoring them like I normally do with stuff.
I fail to see how this does anything to prevent someone from going to the gold seller site and paying for gold.
You don't need gold to buy things from people. You need *** amounts of gold to unlock bag/bank space, respec and buy the best horses.
There will still be gold sellers.
The only thing a global AH will do is reduce prices when there's so many of any given item you'll be better off vendoring it because it won't sell for vendor price.
See: WoW, Saronite Ore in Wrath of the Lich King. I could get that crap for vendor price per stack.
J011Y_R063R wrote: »I think the auction house from WoW was great. I don't want immersion when it comes to me selling or buying. I just want the things I can make money on to sell and the things I want to buy to be available without 2hrs of searching. I think the current trader idea is a hassle and is infuriating. I just want to buy and sell efficiently so I can get on with my gaming. Trader is nothing but a time waster it was a good idea in theory but just get an action house and call it a day.