The majority of eso players do just fine with the existing trade system (especially since zeni stopped sabotaging bids with the maintenance time). The majority of people who want an AH just because they're used to it from other games and don't want to adapt to a different structure.

I like most of the ways that ESO chooses to differentiate themselves from mmo generica - the guild stores instead of auction house, the lack of player inspection, the decision (so far) not to put advantage-giving weapons and gear in tbe cash shop.

L2Adapt

Pallmor wrote: »

I just came back to ESO after having been off playing Neverwinter for a long time, and I forgot the most annoying aspect of this game: no auction house. So I'm sitting on a pile of purple and gold loot with no way to sell it unless I find a trade guild.

I forgot how much it SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS to play an MMO without an auction house, or any sort of decent trade system for us casual players to sell our stuff. Guess I'll have to sell my rare motifs, recipes, and sets to a freaking vendor for 17 gold. Woo hoo!!

Well, a least ESO finally got events--after just 2.5 years. Maybe by sometime in 2020, they'll add an option for us to trade stuff too.

Maybe l2p, it is very easy to make gold regardless of trade guilds - as others have already said, trade in zone or w/e

A lot of players are not remotely interested in auction houses.

alexkdd99 wrote: »

There is multiple ways to trade stuff. Trade button with people in towns, cod, join a guild. Now that I have told you how to trade you can finally sell your stuff.

Yeah, I'll stand on a street corner in Mournhold spamming chat with dozens of items for the next week or so. That's way better than any auction house.

Pallmor wrote: »

Reverb wrote: »

The majority of eso players do just fine with the existing trade system (especially since zeni stopped sabotaging bids with the maintenance time). The majority of people who want an AH just because they're used to it from other games and don't want to adapt to a different structure.

I like most of the ways that ESO chooses to differentiate themselves from mmo generica - the guild stores instead of auction house, the lack of player inspection, the decision (so far) not to put advantage-giving weapons and gear in tbe cash shop.

L2Adapt

Did it ever occur to you that the reason that other MMO's have auction houses is that they work and players like them?

I'd actually have to disagree with you there.

They don't work, they just are what you want cause you don't like the system this game offers.

If you can't be bothered to learn and use the trading system the rest of us do just fine with, then you don't deserve more for your items then the vendor will give you. If you are that lazy then learn to be happy being broke. Join a trade guild and sell your stuff already, whats the problem?

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Look! Another Auction House thread!

And why not, the current system is just one big time sink.

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

I'd bet that housing will have traders.
There seems to never gonna be an global auction house which is good but housing trader is the way to go as they already said we can allow ppl to visit our homes and it's in-game gold even larger stuff like guild houses *snippped*

Oh wonderful! Now instead of just spending hours visiting each area with the Guild run vendors, we can spend potentially more countlesshours visiting virtually thousands of individual player vendors; just how I wanted to spend my game time.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

The vast majority of the player base DOES NOT WANT AN AUCTION HOUSE!! quit trying to make ESO like every other MMO.

And you KNOW the 'vast majority' does not want an AH how again? Oh, yes, you found it in the the dark recesses of absurdity.
Adding just the convenience of an AH to ESO, would hardly make it 'like every other MMO'.

rager82b14_ESO wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

rager82b14_ESO wrote: »

kargen27 wrote: »

Pallmor wrote: »

alexkdd99 wrote: »

There is multiple ways to trade stuff. Trade button with people in towns, cod, join a guild. Now that I have told you how to trade you can finally sell your stuff.

Yeah, I'll stand on a street corner in Mournhold spamming chat with dozens of items for the next week or so. That's way better than any auction house.

There ya go, that's the spirit. No need for an easily manipulated auction house when you can just sell what you want when you want for an agreed to price without worry of outside price influences.

That is stupid, MMOS having taken steps forward from tedious dull elements such as this. We accept the AH system like this. Does not mean we like it. Not having a global AH is one of the major flaws of this game for many people.

And yet many of us, including myself are super rich

OP is just stubborn and will not adapt, then whines on forums for being poor, his problem.

With OT, arguably it has been easier making gold.

And feeling forced to vendor rare recipes, motifs etc, just highlights to a laughable level OP`s lack of skill trading.

Rich because you like doing tedious elements? Good job, or lucky to find a decent guild store. I mean you are attacking the guy calling him lazy just because he does not like this bad AH system.

Sorry, but you are acting like a tool. You can not agree with him all you want, but to assume he is lazy because he does not like, and MANY of us don't like this AH system. That is childish.

Actually I am rich because I know what I am doing, there are multiple easy ways of making gold legit in the game, and many of them are not that tedious.

I am not attacking anyone, just calling a spade a spade, OP is factually whining about vendoring rare recipes blah blah to a vendor instead of learning how to trade, its a observation, not an attack, you just view it as an attack, as you side with his viewpoint.

I am acting like a tool? oh and just before you were accusing me of attacking OP ? hmmm pot kettle much?

And its not an assumption saying OP is lazy, its a fact, if he cannot learn or have the time to trade properly and make multi millions, then the onus is on him, then worse, coming on forums and sparking off a controversial topic, while salting it with lines with the gist of oh I have to vendor rare blah blahs and oh spend hours trying to sell.

It is painfully obvious, OP has no clue how to trade, its a acquired skill.

So again, hardly an attack.

And maybe be sure of your perceived facts regarding AH, saying many do want it, is deniable, whereas going by the fact that a very small minority actually come to the forums, and a lot of them going by previous threads on this very subject, the main thrust of player opinions has been of a big resounding no to AH.

Never mind that some of us in the game are networked with big guilds, or a fair amount of people, and maybe some of them hate it too, I am sure ZoS could assess a high probably percentage of exactly how much players want a AH.

So to wrap it up, it is a bit childish on your part assuming things about myself

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

The vast majority of the player base DOES NOT WANT AN AUCTION HOUSE!! quit trying to make ESO like every other MMO.

Really? Got the numbers to prove this?

@Pallmor Highly unlikely this game will ever feature an auction house. Probably better chance of winning the top prize in your local lottery.

Hluill wrote: »

At least give me some kinda global search so I don't have to spend hours looking for materials.

And now that they have all these freakin' dropped sets, why can't I search for those?

"Nah, your time is better spent wayshrine hopping to all these freakin' traders using those freakin' drop-downs. Quit whinin' or just go back to WoW."

~laughs~

Yeah all those other games global trade systems are broken and don't work.

Yes! A global search function would be fantastic.

Reverb wrote: »

The majority of eso players do just fine with the existing trade system (especially since zeni stopped sabotaging bids with the maintenance time). The majority of people who want an AH just because they're used to it from other games and don't want to adapt to a different structure.

I like most of the ways that ESO chooses to differentiate themselves from mmo generica - the guild stores instead of auction house, the lack of player inspection, the decision (so far) not to put advantage-giving weapons and gear in tbe cash shop.

L2Adapt

And what is a majority? How can you possibly speak on behalf of "the majority"?

If you cant make a comment without making things up. You should probably not make the comment.

Hmm, maybe this is a platform problem.

On PC, add-ons help with searching and generally shopping is a painless process. Its easy to filter down to the things you're after and hunt for random bargains. It occurs to me that on a console I would probably be annoyed by the vanilla interface a bit as well.

That said I managed just fine my first year without an add on.