Do you want an Auuction House

Callous2208 · September 2015

No

Huggernaut wrote: »

Honestly, I LOATHE the trading guilds. IMHO it is a completely outdated method of maintaining a virtual economy. They did this stuff back in the early 2000s in a lot of asian MMOs, and every single one of them ripped it out and made a global auction house eventually.

This entire system breeds nothing but hate and greed. It sets all the players at one another's throats. The people that scheme and plot and exploit to get the major city spots, the people that hate those people, the people that hate having to teleport around trying to see what each of those vendors has, then hating themselves for feeding these "bad" guilds, but being to lazy to actually try and shop around to the more remote vendors.

There are a million issues with the entire system and honestly imho, it never should have launched, let alone lasted this long.

The people saying "no, it will ruin the economy allowing players to take control and gouge people on prices, blah blah blah", to that I say phooey! It's already happening and has been happening for ages. The same guilds that have same spots in the major spots dictate the prices, how is that any different than what they would do in a global auction house?

If anything, the prices would be lower, because people would be able to undercut them more visibly, which would mean others would have more gold to spend, and be willing to spend it on other things.

To this statement I'll make a broad generalization about Auction Houses, based on my experience playing every mmo that's hit the market in the past 15 years. Every MMO with an auction house has a terrible economy, run by a few elitist hardcore grinders and bots. I have not played one title in 15 years with an auction house that did anything for me as far as making money, or getting a fair price for the things I need. This system works, and on a side note, why does it have to change to be like every other mmo that I no longer play.

Mordenkainen · September 2015

No

Callous2208 wrote: »

To this statement I'll make a broad generalization about Auction Houses, based on my experience playing every mmo that's hit the market in the past 15 years. Every MMO with an auction house has a terrible economy, run by a few elitist hardcore grinders and bots. I have not played one title in 15 years with an auction house that did anything for me as far as making money, or getting a fair price for the things I need. This system works, and on a side note, why does it have to change to be like every other mmo that I no longer play.

This.

And no. If we have auction houses, the world will become really dead, like WoW where 50% of the server population stands around in a single building.

I also enjoy the travel to other cities to the guild stores to be honest. Sometimes I even ride there just to take the landscape in on my way. And it's a different feeling to check each store, looking what may be new in there, comparing prices and so on. Instead of having one giant list that will erode my eyes.

It's different from other MMOs, I like it different.

AlnilamE · September 2015

No

I do love watching the price curves each time something new is added or the meta changes.

And checking random traders I encounter while running around doing other stuff to see if they have anything good for a reasonable price.

That said, the AwesomeGuildStore interface should be part of the base game, particularly for consoles.

Gamertaglemieux · September 2015

No

Having an auction house would serve only to major inflated prices for items.

It would destroy the market in my opinion.

Bad idea. Very bad idea.

Slurg · September 2015

No

No.

I would, however, like to see:

1. A better default UI for shopping the guild stores, something like Awesome Guild Store.
2. A consignment shopkeeper roaming near the merchant stalls in each major city where guild-unaffiliated sellers can list a few items for sale, for a fee of course.
3. Gidorick's Auction Horse. Just because.