Here's a thought:

• When quests/bosses are tough you band together with other players, heading into dungeons or similar together to complete content you otherwise would not be able to solo. Friendships sometimes form, players interact with each-other, sometimes players call on those players again next time, stronger friendships develop, maybe even a static group might form, etcetera etcetera. This of course doesn't happen always, but it would never happen if you could complete the content alone.
• The same is true in a way for trading currently in the game; It's tougher than many other MMO games. In those you can mindless sell and buy goods without interacting with anyone else. The situation as it is now in ESO stimulates you more to interact with others, perhaps forming friendships with crafters you'll go back to again and again to purchase items from. In fact you might even start selling or giving raw materials to these crafters you buy from to help them in their trade. You interact with other players, friendships form that might evolve beyond the initial crafting premise. A win-win situation.

It's what MMOs should be all about; player-player interaction. And the current system in-game fosters that so much more than any traditional Auction House would.

Laughter wrote: »

I enjoy the no auction house feature. I do agree there needs to be a trading chat.

Basically this. I love the idea behind it and trading guilds are absolutely wonderful. It's just that zone channels seems to be a bit spammy sometimes as majority of players are trying to sell their goods in there.

Player-player interaction is perfectly fine. However, it shouldn't be forced. Sometimes I like to do stuff on my own, other times with a group. I don't want to be forced to do stuff in a group where I would have more fun doing it on my own. Not that is actually happening, but those are just thoughts...

I'm fine with the current system of trading, though a type of regional market outside of a guild store doesn't sound bad at all. The thing is, even without an global auction house system, some trading guilds will simply become more powerful than others, and people are going to compete over places inside those guilds. there is no stopping that. Perhaps a medium between these small, localised stores and global stores is what is actually needed.

leandro.800ub17_ESO wrote: »

I would hate to see this game turn out like others when you just buy blue and purple stuff very cheap.

Cost of things is a simple supply and demand. You could argue that the way to keep prices high (if that's what you want) is to ensure that supplying these items is very difficult and time consuming to the point where most would just rather hand over their life savings than make it themselves.

The economy is working fine and I don't see the need for an AH. People never use the /trade channel to trade anyway so your problem wouldn't be solved.

They could prevent link items on certain chats

Regional wouldn't be too bad. Limit sales to a certain number per account. It'll force people to sell their best wares. And it still leaves room for people who only gather to make a profit selling there stuff.

Left_Hand wrote: »

The economy is already on a fast track to being screwed regardless of having an auction house or not, there are already people doing 20.000 gold an hour AOE farming mobs, or exploiting the instanced nature of the game to login, loot containers in the bank building, logging off and login again to repeat the process for a good chance at racial books.

Unless these exploits are fixed, the inflation of gold in the economy at this early stage of the game will mess it all up sooner or later.

Sounds vaguely familiar, happened in Vanguard, gold duplication exploit killed the economy with in days.

To combat a failed economy, the easiest way to make it work is, don't have trading guilds, don't have AH , just have a trade channel. let people sort it out themselves.

Maybe even perform a gold wipe. Or at least a gold cap per a/c. At the end of the day, gold is really immaterial to me as a player, it definitely goes not effect my enjoyment of the game whether I have gold or not.

I Love the trade system by guild. But .. the cut is too high... its 10% that goes nowhere plus another 15 % for the guild....
I'd rather COD then use guild store..

Ithug wrote: »

I Love the trade system by guild. But .. the cut is too high... its 10% that goes nowhere plus another 15 % for the guild....
I'd rather COD then use guild store..

Actually, I read that you get the posting fee back (could be wrong) and the 15% does not go to the guild but disappears. I could be wrong but this what I read a few days ago.

Laura wrote: »

I think no auction house is fine it has REALLY improved relations with other top guild with mine. We have a pretty cool trade consortium going that I haven't seen since EQ. the community is fantastic.

That said I have NO IDEA why there isn't a zone trade channel. that should most definitely be added.

I turn zone chat off anyway because all I see are people arguing about silly things but a trade channel would be a big help

I agree, OP join a trade guild, and prosper. But they really need a dedicated trade channel.

i think we Are okay whit out auction house but we need search Function in the Guild Store if it are to become more used because ppl get to tiered using it looking True all pages for One single item That may or may not be For sale

So as long we get search added to the guild store i think it is quite nice ofc that is only my opinion,,,,

And agree the drop rate for Epic gear is quite Big so if it's not changed mot ppl will be runing around in epic gear beffore they know it ,,

Let me assure the ignorant OP that auction house is in no way a "must". I commend Zenimax on stepping away from this GAME BREAKING 'feature' that has killed socialization in many games utilizing it. Think back to Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, EverQuest 1, Dark Age of Camelot. All amazing, great games that did NOT have auction houses.

Enough said. Hopefully Zeni doesn't cave to people crying and wanting everything handed to them on a silver platter with zero effort put in.

I do agree with a trade chat channel though, since it would help annoy certain players less.

I think the way they are doing it is smart. Imagine the spam on a dedicated trade channel... hmmm Neverwin___ comes to mind. What a nightmare.