Why do you want an Auction House? (discussion)[dev1019]

[ESAR]

Why do "you" want an auction house?





Why would it help?

What would it make easier?

[Evangela]

AH is the best marketing system in the MMO at this moment

better ask "why don't you want an auction house?"

[Cairdeas]

I don't.

The Marketward does everything a traditonal auction house does without having the long winded auction system. "Oh I have to wait 7 days to see if I won." when most players just put the lowest bid to start as the least they'd accept its not really an auction its as "How much extra do you want to give me for an item you really want."

[Evangela]

no need to auction everytime becuase you have an option to purchase immediately

[Molly_Millions]

no, market wards do everything that an AH would

[Kimowar]

an AH would connect all sellers, most other games AH have a buy it now function, but would eliminate the need to travel differnt wards and cities looking for an item, my suggestion if the devs are dead set against an AH, which was se's invention btw, I say the use a broker similar to what soe does for eq2, basiclly it would connect all retainers and could instantly buy from the broker for a small fee instead of hunting down the retainer

[Shneibel]

the 34580358395834583530853th about AH, and pls dont talk like hunting down retainer is a paint in the ass when the ward already tell the retainer loc, retainer name + mark with a red star

[CeeKay]

Market Ward is fine, its different and does basically the same thing.

Its neat, I like it!

[Kimowar]

its funny, people whine change , change , change, but afraid at the smallest changes like jump and ah,

[Dreamer]

I don't want an AH, at least in the traditional form. The way it has been implemented in other games makes it more like a glorified NPC merchant than anything else. Plus, you can't really add this type of AH without destroying the window-shopping aspect of the market wards, which some of us enjoy.

The worst part, however, is that selling items on an AH is a royal pain in the rear compared to an AH. With the market ward, I can generally have my retainer throw up whatever I want to sell, then forget about it for a few days. With an AH system, you have people constantly undercutting you and then other people undercut them, the net result of which is that prices get driven through the floor. At which point the only people making any semblance of profit are the farmers.

The bottom line is that an AH benefits buyers, while market wards benefit the sellers. I would personally have the latter.