How to do it right:
Blizzard, why don’t you do right?…
I don’t have a lot of experience with vampires, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor’s dog.
by “money” you mean in game gold… right? 
No I mean real life rice, there should be a limit
I think you are just looking for a better trade system.
Yeah…same question here. Otherwise F that.
AH is a trade system in fact
A pure trade item for item system would be better. Basically a marketplace where people can put up an item abd request a different item.
No gold, no summon materials, no real world currency.
All good ideas for the most part. I don’t see the need for capping gold transacted per week. Especially since items would be bound to account once purchased. So no one could play the AH in that way. The item limit makes sense, but I feel it should just be a limit like; you can only have 10 items up at once. If you want to list more you need to remove one.
That would stop people from throwing up every piece of junk they get and save the AH some bloat.
What’s the issue with a buy it now option and an auction both? This worked well in D3 for the non-RMT AH. I was never a big fan of bid only auctions, since half the time the auction ends when you are at work and the last 5 minutes is when most of the bidding happens.
Regardless, yes please Blizzard add an auction house. Trading using the 3rd party site is a terrible experience.
Autobuyout should be a thing. Maybe people should be restricted for x days to combat bots. Nothing else should be considered. The game has no trade until there is a Blizz website or an AH though. Those are the bare minimum and the team currently isn’t delivering. These failures are only acceptable for a small dev team not a AAA one.
Basic filters fix bloat restrictions on players are just unacceptable for the most part.
there will never be a real money ah again. but if you mean gold ah it could be useful for the trade system. i understand some people are stubborn and dont want to use diablo.trade.
3rd party sites have been known to have malicious redirects and who knows how that person is using your information. A 3rd party implementation is unnacceptable. Both Thottbot and Wowhead have caused security issues in the past and there is nearly no recourse from any of these sites.
lol you can come up with whatever imaginary reason you want for not using diablo.trade.
Wait until your information is stolen and you can’t do anything about it because it is from some small contributor. Blizzard has the resources and is obligated to make a trading system for their game.
and what information would be stolen? the email i use for bnet? good thing that wont do much because authenticator…
Oh my summer child. You think that is all of the information they have access to.
While true about the filters, I don’t think the blizzard servers can handle 100 million items up for auction. The more items listed the longer it takes for a system to filter through them, thus the longer you have to wait. They also have to be sent back to the player in some shape or form if they don’t sell.
If they just sit at the AH until claimed there still has to be some limit at some point of the process because they aren’t going to pay for server space to stack up unsold items in a mailbox or at the AH infinitely.
A database with 100s of millions of requests isn’t a very tiny ask. Requests take nanoseconds to complete. With filters these are very basic select queries. It takes no significant resources to serve these requests.
The space that each listing would take would be measured in bytes. This kind of task would have easily been achievable in 1999.
Because it is more complicated than it looks and likely not worth the effort. Find more information in this scary long post of mine: Auction house in D4? Here are some major drawbacks