The current kiosk system protects the economy from players like myself.
I sell to move. I dont want anything in a store for more than 3 days, preferably twelve hours. I sell things low, low, low and I am in a few 490+ guilds where the prices are bargains anyways.
I bargain hunt. I never, ever buy a stack of ingots or refined cloth for over 700g a stack. I watch for tempers and resins to go below the norms of the store and snap them up.
So last night I hit every kiosk in Nirn except two or three in Pact that I havent discovered the wayshrines for yet. I was specifically hunting blue recipes level 10 thru 35. I bought three, each less than 750g. Kiosk after kiosk had these blues at 2,500g all the way up to 4,500g. I bought a purple drink recipe for 1,750g. I barely glanced at the purples going for 18,000g or even 45,000g. The purple I bought is on sale by a guild mate for 25,000g.
If there was a global auction house, all the inflated prices on everything would plummet. There are hardcore crafter toons out there that could drop the research market down to 150g per item. There are guilds out there with 500 or more elegant linings and if they thought they could use the money, those would hit the market.
Believe me, after visiting every kiosk, purple recipes are not rare. They are everywhere. I've seen some kiosks with twenty listed and any decent store has at least two. The level 35's are almost as common as toilet paper and yet they list for 9,000g or more. Blue level 20 to 35 recipes are also ubiquitous. If there were a global auction house all these prices would start dropping, probably in half if not less.
If you are a crazy buyer, a global auction house is something you want. If you want to sell your VR1 Signet of the Warlock for 7,000g, you do not want a global auction house.

WTB faction based AH, end the guild store/kiosk garbage already.

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

"You make it sound like your opinion is the only one that matters."

No, I don't. I say it like its the opinion of the player base. I believe it is the opinion of the player base because there have been many, many threads and polls on this topic that in my opinion makes it painfully obvious that most people *on these forums* would prefer an auction house.

You miss the mark here. A minority of people who play this game are the people who come to these forums to voice grievances. The majority are in game playing, enjoying it and having a good time. A minority of people care enough to come here and flame all day.

Let me give an example. Even the most "trending" of threads here, and i'll use the "who's the hottest NPC in the game" thread as an example, has ~12k views. In addition, only ~23k people actually viewed the last set of patch notes.

Compare those numbers to how many subscribers ESO has...last I checked over ~750k.

Unfortunately because so many people use the forums to vent frustration it only appears that a majority align with the ideals represented here. However I assure you, in most cases, the forums do not represent what a majority the player base is thinking.