Alpha Project Finds AddOn that Prompted the Auction House

Live Publié 31/03/2021 à 15:28 par Paryah

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We were going through old beta screenshots in our Alpha Project Discord and noticed that some of them showed what appeared to be like a primitive Auction House.

The primitive Auction House, named \"Autotrade\"

At first we thought that this was indeed official, but after a while we concluded that Autotrade was a player created AddOn that was extremely popular during beta days. It was so popular, that it's even mentioned in John Staat's The WoW Diary.

As you can read, turns out that this AddOn was most likely what convinced Blizzard to implement the Auction House as we know it today.

The WoW Diary, page 281twenty-seven versions of the AddOn Package

We are really happy to have found this historical AddOn, game preservation is important (that's what Alpha Project is about at the end of the day).