Curse

Aeon_Xin · Mar 03, 2007, 06:03 PM // 18:03

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Originally Posted by Emerikol

There are seperate servers for every district/instance that you are in, and your character data is transfered to a new server every time you switch zones.

Lol, really, I think I just peed a lil'.
I'm fairly sure, even at 50$ per game and max character slots, that anet can't afford servers for each person that chooses to solo(or solo /hench/hero) a map, each party in an instance, each arena battle in existance, and all districts of each city, which during events, can even reach 200 districts.
That would be thousands of computers, the building would have to be huge, and have one helluva high power bill and fire insurance policy.

(replies to others below):
"With the auction house, you spend less time trading, so you have more time to do everything else. So unless you actually enjoy trading I don't see how this is a problem as you will have more time to do whatever you enjoy doing."

The point I was making is that I already spend next to no time doing the wts/wtb thing now, and I've got vast amounts of money just sitting around.
I get the feeling people waste time by doing that because they get the feeling making money that way is easier...or they just flat out enjoy "playing the market"

"Bandwidth might be an issue here, though unless ANET comes out and actually states that this is why they aren't making an auction house, we can't really be sure. So unless someone has evidence that the bandwidth/CPU use of the auction house will be an issue its better to assume that it isn't."

No, it's not better in my opinion, because people that don't think about lag(or even know about it, yes they exist..), will end up regretting their former support for the cause of it.
I think it's much better to assume there will be lag, and if people /unsign because of only lag, then they can disregard those from the ..."vote"?/petition or whatever you want to call it. I'm not posting to let Anet know about the lag, it's to remind people to use it when they weigh their coming /sign, or lack thereof.

Atleast you're admitting that lag could become a problem, there's other people around these forums guaranteeing there will be no lag, even though they don't work for GW/Anet. Props there.
(don't care how much education someone claims they have, you can't guarantee no lag unless you know the game code(for somethign like this) and the anet hardware+software in great detail, in addition to their ISP/package capacity)

RazorEdge · Mar 03, 2007, 06:24 PM // 18:24

/Signed. An auction house would be a blessing. Also I get the feeling that GW is one of the only few mmorpgs that doesn't have an auction house. Sure, there's traders and merchants, but that's not really the same, is it..

Holy · Mar 03, 2007, 06:39 PM // 18:39

/signed
great idea!! Ive been wishing for an AH for a reely long time!!

Liberations · Mar 03, 2007, 07:25 PM // 19:25

This is an incredibly old thread!!!
/signed.
Those ideas from the first poster are awesome!!! I'd like an auction house, but there should be some limits, because then there would be a million different auctions and most wouldn't even get noticed. ALong with this there needs to be a lot more ultra rare things introduced, and some things should have their rarity increased.

Liberations · Mar 03, 2007, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Hey for all we know an Auction House is well in the works, ArenaNet has stated that they have tons of new features (maybe not tons but you get the point) that they havent even hnted at yet.

Deadly SiNs · Mar 05, 2007, 01:09 AM // 01:09

/signed
I think this is a great idea ^^
It can be hard to sell stuff and to find stuff that you want to buy so making an auction house would make things easier, maybe you could get a message when you've received a higher offer, or someone else has bidded higher than you etc

Connor87 · Mar 05, 2007, 03:39 AM // 03:39

/SIGNED /SIGNED /SIGNED /SIGNED.

guildwars NEEDS an auction house. it will reduce the amount of useless spam in main towns and people will finally be able to sell gold items without spamming for hours. there should be no reason why guildwars doesnt have a auction house.

Edmund Elrick · Mar 05, 2007, 11:25 AM // 11:25

/signed
CHAT SPAM FTL

wacked_1 · Mar 11, 2007, 04:18 PM // 16:18

i remember reading a thread somewhere about a one of those conferences guild wars hosts for guild wars fan sites. (sorry cant remember which thread) but it stated that one of the usual questions asked was "is an auction house ever giong t be added to guild wars?" and i think it was jeff strain or someone simply nodded and said "its on the way"
so dont worry hopefully we will be seing an auction house soon! probably some time when the next game is released.

Xeones The Great · Mar 11, 2007, 04:57 PM // 16:57

finally lol!!!

/signed (x100)

i hate how i post something like WTS Axe, and within 2-3 hours, its already on the 2nd page, where no one will notice it. pisses me off. Love the idea!

Ilithis Mithilander · Mar 13, 2007, 02:10 AM // 02:10

/signed

This would clear up the lower districts a lot so someone might actually be able to read what people are saying. Also with the use of the AH guild wars activity would go up because all those people spamming WTB/WTS would put their item in the AH instead. Thus giving more activity in places that could really use the activity, like the less populated missions.

Goreman · Mar 13, 2007, 08:52 PM // 20:52

Well, i was gonna ask the same question, i get tired of the meaning-less hours of trade and gettin nothin... i feel i could do somthin better while in trade...

/signed
this is a good idea (along with 2 handed swords for warriors)

have a nice day

MithranArkanere · Mar 13, 2007, 09:01 PM // 21:01

Any auction system would be fine for me as long as:

- It won't allow to offer items available at traders. They are there for something, and if prices are high, is because people do not use them.

- The maximum price is set to 100k. It's the maximum ammount of gold you can carry, and it¡s there for something. It's the price nothing should cost more than.

bilateralrope · Mar 14, 2007, 02:06 AM // 02:06

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Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

- The maximum price is set to 100k. It's the maximum ammount of gold you can carry, and it¡s there for something. It's the price nothing should cost more than.

However items will still be worth over 100k, as an items worth is what someone is willing to pay for it, and if you scroll down the main page of guru auction you will see that there are items going for well over 100k. So no matter what you feel about what the max value of a GW item should be, the fact is that some are worth well over 100k.

If the max price is limited to 100k people who don't know its worth more than 100k will put the item up for auction, and it will be scooped up by someone who does know its real market value so they can resell it for a higher price. And the people doing the reselling, since they can't use the auction house, will have to either use various 3rd party websites (like gurus trade forums) or trade spam to sell them.

So by limiting the max price at auctions to below what items are worse you will be both causing people to lose out on gold because they don't know what an item is worth (like the pre-searing dye scams, except with much more gold involved), and forcing people to either use 3rd party trading systems (which are a symptom that the trading systems ANET offers are insufficient) or to use trade spam. And if the 3rd party trading systems are closed, that means the resellers only have the option of trade spam.

And considering that the vast majority of price checks posted here are items valued at under 100k, meaning a response of "stick it in the auction house with a low min-bid and long duration, see what price you get" will be valid for them, I don't see the price check forum retaining much traffic if its even kept open. This means that players might not have any way to actually check the value of an item.

In conclusion having a max price at the auction house is a bad idea, unless that max price is well above what any item is worth.

MithranArkanere · Mar 14, 2007, 03:10 PM // 15:10

The max price for anythong is 100k. People may want to pay more. But the max value for any itme in GW is 100k no matter waht people say.

And.. how would yu pay in the auction house meny more than 100k if it won't acces the Xunlai storage (and it WON'T access it) and the 100k limit in the characters will NEVER be increased?

It's not what I'd like it to be.
It's what would be if it where.

Tarun · Mar 14, 2007, 03:44 PM // 15:44

Two years later (practically) and not even a hint of this. Anyone else think this is pretty pathetic?

frickett · Mar 14, 2007, 03:51 PM // 15:51

/signed once for each of my characters...

I wonder if we are gonna see anything like this, we have been promised trade improvements for months, but nothing is forthcoming.
I wonder what their ideas are.

funguito · Mar 14, 2007, 04:30 PM // 16:30

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Originally Posted by frickett

I wonder what their ideas are.

Yeah, I also wonder why the delay on this matter...

Tarun · Mar 14, 2007, 04:33 PM // 16:33

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Originally Posted by frickett

we have been promised trade improvements for months

How much do you wanna bet that the new "Search" feature was a "Trade Improvement"? Sorry to say but it's like they're going backwards.

mazey vorstagg · Mar 14, 2007, 04:47 PM // 16:47

/signed, I mean, what's stopping them. All it needs a direct copy of the AH used in WOW. Only 4 tabs, browsw, sell, search and auction log.

Come on devs!