The partial region wide auction house is going to be mega abusable by those with the most gold. You heard it here first!— Kaychak (@kaychakeu) July 1, 2022
The partial region wide auction house is going to be mega abusable by those with the most gold. You heard it here first!
I don't really post things on the auction house all that often, but when I do it feels like I am constantly having to check back and make sure someone else hasn't posted more recently. Expanding the auction house region wide feels like it may make it incredibly difficult for the average player (like myself) to make any sort of profit on the market if they eventually decide to try it out.
Bad for gold goblins who on their servers have a monopoly on certain things. Good for the average joe.
Well enchants already sell for a loss on my high-pop server so I guess they'll sell for even less now.
I think this might be a good change for Dragonflight, even for people who farm commodities. As 10.0 will introduce a quality to pretty much all crafting-related items, there'll be bigger variety in stuff that's on offer. This will most likely still allow gatherers to make a difference on the AH, at least in the early stages. Personally, I hope Blizz won't make it too easy to level up your professions in Dragonflight. If it's too easy to max out, this will definitely ruin gathering for anyone that's not botting.Given the state we're in now, in Shadowlands, this is a terrible change for me personally given that I make a majority share of my gold through selling commodities and occasionally flipping them on my low-pop server. I'm hopeful it'll work out in the long run though. We'll have to wait and see.
While I do sympathize with people who farmed mats on low pop servers, I have no sympathy for people who flip mats. Flipping mats is a parasitic practice, they aren't adding anything to the economy. I'm not going to tell people to stop or that Blizz should ban the practice because.. it's just game. It just seems funny that some of them act like actiblizz should've protected that income source from this change.Though I am biased as a crafter. I will always welcome cheaper mats especially old world mats.
Goblins brought this on themselves. A lot of old world mat prices are ridiculous because of them, just look at the primal market on any low pop realm. I'm more curious how this will work technically, with thousands of people browsing, buying or listing stuff at the same time.
oops double post
Well, with that change - gold from highpop realms will come to lowpop due less people farming. Offcourse there is still a possibility to transfering gold, so its not that an issue. More profit - more people farm there materials. So dead servers will be semi-alive, but filled with bots.
Get %^&*ed price-fixers
Looks like we'll really need something done about cancel scans / cancel spam then. Something like a 2 minutes grace period for misclicks, and then at least an hour long lockout before canceling is allowed. Otherwise nothing will ever sell confronted to the tide of an entire region, compounded with bots or multiaccount alts just sitting at the auctioneer cancel scanning all day long.Then again, maybe work orders are Blizzard's preemptive solution. In a future world where transactions are dictated by buyers, not sellers, cancel spamming does not exist. Or, if it does, ironically buyer competition drives prices up instead of down.
If anyone knows what it is like to be on a super high pop server like Illidan, this regional change will essentially kill gold making for commodity crafting professions if you aren't a gatherer. The margins will be so low, you will have to sell massive quantities of any commodity to turn a decent profit vs time investment. And that's if you're lucky. Most of the time, the commodities will be worth less than the purchased mats.