I believe the "answer" is a total, unreserved, unqualified "no" from the devs.
OP, do not listen to the nay sayers.
An Auction house is coming; after spellcrafting, flying mounts, under water pvp and the full-on Tamriel wide justice system.
Ragnarok0130 wrote: »I believe the "answer" is a total, unreserved, unqualified "no" from the devs.
I've never heard that from the devs, just from players saying they don't like the idea for some bizarre reason. I'm actually interested about when they said this can you point me in the right direction since early in the game after launch I didn't pay attention to patch notes and dev interviews?
VaranisArano wrote: »Ragnarok0130 wrote: »I believe the "answer" is a total, unreserved, unqualified "no" from the devs.
I've never heard that from the devs, just from players saying they don't like the idea for some bizarre reason. I'm actually interested about when they said this can you point me in the right direction since early in the game after launch I didn't pay attention to patch notes and dev interviews?
*Hauls out the reference list*
(Sorry, I truly mean no offense, but I tend to collect references to what the Devs say for times like this.)
So here's a collection of ZOS' intentions and official comments for Guild Traders.
March 2013: "Will there be an auction house?" asked of Creative Director Paul Sage @5:00 into the video: https://www.buffed.de/TESO-The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-Spiel-15582/News/The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-Creative-Director-Paul-Sage-aeussert-sich-zur-Item-Progression-zu-Mounts-und-zum-Gildensystem-im-Video-1072227/
August 2014: Benefits of Guilds - "The Road Ahead" https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/1059
August 2014: Introduction of PVE Guild Traders - Creating ESO: Identity and Update 3 https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/1087
May 2014: Lack of an Auction House - Ask Us Anything Variety Pack # 14: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/947
April 10, 2015: ESO Live @ https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/3924079#Comment_3924079
April 28,2015 : ESO Live "Ask Us Anything" @37:40 "Player guilds are actually an integral part of our world and trader access is a key benefit to guild membership. We don't have any plans to change this at this time." Also, the transcript: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/1760019#Comment_1760019https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2875274#Comment_2875274https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N17KZ_ZCK0&list=PLZng8hzxXSt6-402bM1G2UuZbtnlrMn0z&index=23
There well may be more. I don't regularly watch ESO Live, so I only pick up those comments when someone on the forums referenced a specific ESO Live.
Are those going to convince the pro-AH crowd? Probably not. Hope springs eternal, and there's all sorts of arguments about "Well, they said they weren't and then they did!" or "But all of those are old quotes!"
Sure. Whatever. If you really want an Auction House, I don't expect the Devs' thinking to convince you. You want what you want. To be frank, I'm pretty sure an updated "Nope, still not doing it" wouldn't stop the debate.
The above links are for the people going "What have the Devs actually said about the possibility of an Auction House?"
So far? A resounding "No."
So while I find the whole guild traders system incredibly annoying, I probably wouldn't even bothering to join a guild with a trader without ttc, I would like to know if there are any comments by the dev team from anytime recent.
8 years is a lot of time, think of all the things that have changed in this game in the last 8 years
VaranisArano wrote: »On a practical level, I think we have to ask if ZOS can in fact make an auction house, when we already know that Guild Stores start to chug at their maximum of 15,000 items and that ZOS had to limit server calls from popular addons Tamriel Trade Center and Master Merchant because they were causing problems with checking guild sales/prices too quickly.
Yeah, other games have auction houses, but we're talking about ESO not other games, and all past experience says ZOS has some major technical hurdles to overcome first.
VaranisArano wrote: »So while I find the whole guild traders system incredibly annoying, I probably wouldn't even bothering to join a guild with a trader without ttc, I would like to know if there are any comments by the dev team from anytime recent.
8 years is a lot of time, think of all the things that have changed in this game in the last 8 years
I don't believe ZOS has said much, but as I said, I don't watch ESO Live, so its possible I've missed something. Though for what its worth, nobody who's in favor of Auction Houses has brought up any quotes to the contrary that I haven't listed. If you find any, I'd be delighted to add them to the list.
However, I also think its worth looking at what ZOS has done since then. ZOS has substantially reworked how the Guild Bid works to allow guilds to bid on multiple traders. ZOS has introduced Guild Finder. ZOS has limited the ability of popular trading addons to quickly/repetitively call on the server for sales and pricing because it was causing performance issues.
So instead of moving away from the Guild-centric model of trading when they had the chance, ZOS worked on making that model work better for guilds. Something to think about.
If ZOS moved to a centralized AH from the current guild trader setup, the exodus of guilds would probably be likened to a tsunami....
Use TTC website.
That is very incorrect. A lot of people play MMORPGs for the purpose of collecting gold. It may be worthless outside of the game, but that pretty much applies to everything in the game. Even Achievements are worthless once you get away from the server that stores them.
I am a strong proponent of guild based local commerce. I see no need for Amazon in the game, and I agree with Varanis in that I don't think the ESO server could handle such a thing.