No world-wide auction house, please! -- (Dev) Replied

No auction house, please

Remembering good old times playing Ultima Online and Dark Age of
Camelot i came to the thought, that an ingame world-wide auction
house ruins a lot of the possible immersion.

In DAoC i loved the way they implemented player shops. I ran
around the housing zone every now and then to check out maybe
hundrets of players shops to find a bang for a buck. And i
truely found the one or the other by snooping around constantly.

Whereas in other games you just port to the nearest city, run
up the auctions guy and start searching and sorting lists to
find the cheapest of 10 available weapons that are exactly the
same. BORING.

Another Problem in the auction house is, that even players that
dont play to often take part in raising the prices for special
items to insane amounts for special items there is a demand for.
So prices keep climbing, people keep looking for the items that
are on high demand and hoard their riches by grinding for
special loot.

I can tell that it is much cooler to find a very special
weapon either as a drop or as a good shot in a players vendor
for a reasonable price instead of grinding the gold to buy it
on the auction house or even grinding the weapon itself over
and over not having it dropped for weeks.

Another alternative would be to sell the stuff to any vendor
in any town for a reasonable price, and the vendor in that very
town sells it to other customers in that very shop, again. So
it is not available all over the whole world, but only in this
very town where it has been sold to the shopkeeper.

Your thoughts?

Haphe phun,
Savant

 

There's some previous discussion on this thread:
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?topic=petition-against-the-auction-house-approach&paged=2

I'm also against the global ah system and so far I've got the impression that they'll aim for localized marketplaces.

 

Where did you found that an Ah will be implementied? I always thought player merchants will be available. An Ah would make player merchants absurd.

 

We have search

21 threads down is your exact same thread.

 

Maybe there can be auction houses but Lord can take %12-%15-%18 or something like that as a tax. Or players can open little markets, that way casual player can trade too.

 

There was mention of possible local auctions but it was clearly stated in a previous dev chat some time ago there would be no global auction houses.

 

I would like to apologize for being so rude.

After some thought "wold-wide" clearly makes this a thread with its own merit. I agree whole heartedly that this would ruin the game. I do, however; want to have local markets.

Again, sorry for being rude.

 

I dont want Global AHs,

I dont even want a local one really,

If they must exist though maybe tax the hell out of them like PABS said... Something to make visiting a local shop the better option for most people.

 

Thanks for clearing that up, people. I was scared that an auction house thing would take a deep impact on the whole game experience (like crafting, special items and so on). I'll be happy with global markets and of course player vendors. Must have missed the dev team talking about it though. That relaxes me a lot. ^^

 

No global auction house.

 

Local auction houses with daily pushpin style auctions and limited slots. Maybe a rotating 24 hour cycle with 24 slots. This showcases the best items in the game. People will come to see just what is being sold for the day. The slots for the next day are also auctioned during the time. So every hour on the hour 1 item is sold and the slot for the item that will be sold in 24 hours is also sold.

 

I'll try to find the appropriate post and link it with an edit but it's already been decided there will be no Global AH. Going to be more of a regional directory.

Edit: No AH link

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?topic=petition-against-the-auction-house-approach&paged=3