Do you want an auction house?

mchlgiffordrwb17_ESO · May 2014

No

No, the Guild Store is fine

Sallakat · May 2014

No

I personally couldn't care less because I only craft for myself and I don't have interest to buy other ppls stuffs; all the things I need can be crafted in-guild by friends, mostly free of charge too.
But I also know that the economy in this game would be totally ruined with a mega server + auction house, so my answer is a firm NO, because nobody really needs another issue that ppl can rant/whine about in the forums :P

Krovax · May 2014

No

I like to see if a player driven economy is going to work in ESO. Also it makes it harder for those botters to set market prices. I do admit though, that I rarely depended on auction houses in any MMO, well, except for collections stuff I collected in heaps and didn't need in EQ2

Elyko · May 2014

Yes

The current system is completely *** and it has too many limitations.
I want to able to trade with millions of players and not only with 2500 max players and occasionally stores in Cyrodiil.
I have joined 3 trading guild now, all are full, and i don't find the stuff i want to buy in there.

htoncic · May 2014

Yes

LOL, look at all these people trying to be the special snowflake by keeping prices artificially high. Trying to peddle the idea that competition in a free market is a bad thing. Please...

Having played GW2 for a year and a half, I can say confidently that the global market there is one of the few things that work spectacularly well in that game.

wyrdob16_ESO · May 2014

No

While I voted no, I would like to see substantial improvements to the current guild store system. For starters, allow bigger guilds, like 1k members each. And when searching the guild store, I want to see offers from all guilds at the same time, without having to check them one by one for the same item type.

PhoenixWing · May 2014

No

I have seen how it went with Diablo III and it was horrible! I wouldn't want the same thing to happen with this game. Small scale markets like guild stores are enough. (Although I would like to join more than 5 guilds, though

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Gwarok · May 2014

No

Voted NO! on numerous times before when this topic was brought up, STILL voting NO! on this one.

starkerealm · May 2014

Yes

PhoenixWing wrote: »

I have seen how it went with Diablo III and it was horrible! I wouldn't want the same thing to happen with this game. Small scale markets like guild stores are enough. (Although I would like to join more than 5 guilds, though )

To be fair, the problem with Diablo 3 wasn't the auction house itself, it was that you could buy stuff from the auction house without any actual commitment to the game. I don't think anyone's suggesting a RMT Auction House... well, anyone except the botters anyway.

AlexDougherty · May 2014

Yes

Yes please.

And for all those who say it will ruin the economy and botters want it, grow up.
Loads of games have AH or equivalent and it doesn't ruin the game.

jbfroik · May 2014

No

No! Creating a system like that will take away from the game. Encouraging farm style grinding and botting for imaginary coins that will then define the gameplay experience for some folks. This game is about exploration and enjoyment. If you want to amass millions perhaps this isn't the game for you. Try playing with a calculator or Monopoly, maybe Eve Online. I just see nothing good that could come of it, and frankly I have yet to really see a need to "buy" anything with in game coins other than my repairs LUL. What in the nine hells do you need bajillions of coins for. So you can say "I have a bazzillion coins WEWT"

Phantax · May 2014

Yes

Altissimus wrote: »

Yes. Everything else is basically an inferior AH by a different name. Just cut the crap and put a proper AH in.

Agreed. The AH situation isn't even a want, It's a need. If this game is going to have any kind of dynamic economy we need a global AH (faction based). All these mini stores are doing is fragmenting the community !

ThyIronFist · May 2014

Yes

Yes. Guild Stores make me sick, they're buggy and have a terrible interface and are extremely annoying to use.

Phantax · May 2014

Yes

Auralia wrote: »

Yes, but not a worldwide AH. There should be a separate AH for each town, as in separate listings from each other in each town that has a bank.

Each town/city... no. Each faction.. definitely yes

MissKiwiana · May 2014

I am undecided. If there was an AH in this game I would like a price of items at a limit so that the player isn't ripped off.

Coming from my experience in WoW people do not want just to make a profit they want to make a frickin' killing ten times over. Only beef about AH

Phantax · May 2014

Yes

MissKiwiana wrote: »

I am undecided. If there was an AH in this game I would like a price of items at a limit so that the player isn't ripped off.

Coming from my experience in WoW people do not want just to make a profit they want to make a frickin' killing ten times over. Only beef about AH

Yes but.. an global AH also provides competition.

1. Somebody will always undercut another price
2. People will only pay so much regardless of item
3. Eventually it evens itself out at a price that the 'market' dictates, not the sellers

Razzak · May 2014

Yes

MissKiwiana wrote: »

I am undecided. If there was an AH in this game I would like a price of items at a limit so that the player isn't ripped off.

Coming from my experience in WoW people do not want just to make a profit they want to make a frickin' killing ten times over. Only beef about AH

This is even easier right now, with guild stores only. A seller has much higher chance of being the only one that is selling certain item, which makes his price not dependent on competition.

Lodestar · May 2014

Yes

Another poll with a percent missing. Are people somehow spoiling their vote?

starkerealm · May 2014

Yes

Lodestar wrote: »

Another poll with a percent missing. Are people somehow spoiling their vote?

It's 47.59% right now, for some reason that one's not rounding up.

smokes · May 2014

No

an auction house undermines the crafting system and also help facilitate bots, AH campers and people who make it their life to control a certain market.

it's not needed in ESO.

give the kiosks a chance before condemning them.

Phantax · May 2014

Yes

smokes wrote: »

an auction house undermines the crafting system.

No it actually makes crafting more viable as it becomes a profession, not just something you do for yourself. This adds more immersion to the game and helps develop a dynamic economy !

smokes wrote: »

also help facilitate bots

No, loopholes in the coding do this. That's for Zenimax to fix, not an excuse for them to use to not give us more content

smokes wrote: »

AH campers and people who make it their life to control a certain market.

People are paying their subs, if that's what they want to do all day let them.
"Play the game the way you want" remember that?
As for controlling the market, won't happen. Players dictate the market, they will buy the cheapest option available not the most expensive. This then becomes dynamic and evens itself out !

smokes wrote: »

give the kiosks a chance before condemning them.

Described by Zenimax as....
"Guild Kiosks—guild stores open to everyone that are available to the highest-bidding guild."

OMG are you joking ! "available to the highest-bidding guild" Which idiot came up with this idea? Elitism gone mad ! Mega guilds are going to run the show while smaller guilds are going to be constantly left out. Way to go there on segregating the community even more !

Nuff said

psufan5 · May 2014

Yes

Yes, just like Tera.

Lodestar · May 2014

Yes

smokes wrote: »

an auction house undermines the crafting system and also help facilitate bots, AH campers and people who make it their life to control a certain market.

it's not needed in ESO.

give the kiosks a chance before condemning them.

Great all we need. More genuine players put out for invading bots.

Regoras · May 2014

Yes

I either want an AH, or a large guild with an active store to accept that I only play a few hours a week because I have big boy things in the real world to attend to.

Morbus2 · May 2014

No

Heck no!

At least not until the gold, resource, and item farming bots issue is corrected. At this point an AH would completely ruin the game.

Zanagan · May 2014

Yes

I voted yes. People are joining guilds for the wrong reason without one. Why should I join a guild just so I can buy/sell? and up to five guilds for that matter. I think this was an oversight by Zenimax.

Kroin · May 2014

Yes

Yes please, i just hate the system, im in 4 trading guild with 450-500 people and i still cant find crafting stuff that i want.

JD2013 · May 2014

Yes

I voted yes, but then I had a think about it.

An AH would probably over-inflate prices even more as they do on other MMO's, and cause elitism, with a small percentage of players dictating prices and farming resources even more to get more gold. It's a simple case of wanting what we don't have.

Trading in zone chat encourages people to interact with one another, as it does with joining Trade Guilds. Having an AH would kill that off, too.

Not to mention with all of the problems that would come with the bots and an AH.

Let's not have an AH please.

Drachenfier · May 2014

Yes

In this thread: A lot of people that are worried they won't be able to overcharge for their special crafted wares because an auction house would show their crafted wares aren't so special after all.

alphawolph · May 2014

Yes

I just want to be able to sell and buy from strangers easily.

And this exact poll is in the crafting section.