playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

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"chasing down" -> irrealistic hyperbole to make the process look more difficult than it is. You pop into the ward. The character is already there, clearly marked. It doesn't run away. There's no "chasing"

I chose "chasing down" merely as a way of describing "locating the NPC and running to it".

But I get it. You're going to play the semantics game, nit picking at specific words rather than focusing on the bigger point being made.

Okay, fine, just this once, for the sake of clarity, since you don't seem to see the forest for the trees, I'll play along.

How's this:
Upon locating the item, you have to teleport to the ward with the NPC, then run to the NPC, interact with the NPC and purchase the item.

There. I've used more specific terms describing exactly the same process, and without using any terms that you could consider "hyperbole".

Regardless it's extra steps. Whether you think they're "negligible" or not is absolutely 100% subjective.

In fact, I'm not even *complaining* about it. I'm just pointing out the *fact* that there are extra steps required in the current system would not be required if the MW truly worked like an AH.

Whether it's "negigible", "good", "bad" or otherwise is up to the individual and completely irrelevant to the statement I was making.

Whether it's "negligible" or not is completely subjective. The fact remains, it's extra steps required to do something that could otherwise be done with one or two simple menu clicks. Search Item > Select Item > Purchase Item. [/QUOPTE]

You might have miscounted the clicks. With one or two clicks you don't even get to see the item list in all auction houses. Oh my god, there are "extra steps!"
It's negligible because it doesn't add a sizable amount of time to something that takes a minute (and on top of it gives additional functionality that an AH lacks). If a minute buying an item is such a big problem to you, so important that you think that a developer should waste development resources to completely scrap a system that most definitely works to implement a redundant one to save you a few clicks, sorry if i dare to laugh.

... watch Abriael grab that ball of assumptions and just run with it!

First of all, in your gleeful attempt to trample on someone else's opinion, you missed a very important detail I included in my post... I'll quote it for you:

You wouldn't be interacting with nothing, teleporting from instanced room to instanced room and chasing down NPCs to get the items once you've found them.

The entire section you responded to was in the context of what happens *after you've found the item*. You conveniently ignored that little detail, I notice.

And again, whether it's "negligible" or not is absolutely irrelevant to the discussion as it is completely subjective. I'm talking actual, hard logistics. Not sure why you keep trying to drag personal opinion into it.

As for you "daring to laugh". Hey, if you find your own hyper-sensitive over-reaction to someone merely sharing a differing point-of-view from your own to be humorous... by all means, knock yourself out. Don't let me stop you.

In the meantime, I'll be laughing about how you have - in the course of two posts where you've completely unnecessarily over-reacted to a harmless counter-statement - officially placed yourself in the same category as Neptune; arrogant in your views and demonstrably intolerant of those that oppose it.

Well played, sir. Well played.