Auction house changes, yay or nah?

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@Yonbi-illidan

Then they should elaborate on what this is. Rather than scape goating addons or the player base.

I thought they did in the bug report thread?

Auction House Much Slower Today - June 16

Hello. The performance reported above is expected and intended, following a hotfix that went into effect a few hours ago. The hotfix is intended to both address service issues, as well as address an imbalance between the vast majority of players and a very small minority. Through our continuing work to address service issues as they crop up, as well as our constant efforts to find gameplay issues and fix them, we’ve observed that a small minority of all players generate the majority of Auction…

@Yonbi-illidan

It would also be nice to understand why the shift in philosphy 15 years later.

Haven’t they altered addon functionality in the past? This isn’t the first time they messed with one specific function while leaving the rest intact.

@Konungrr-frostmourne

If addons, or specific functions of addons were the problem, they would have disabled them.

This is a bit different this time, because I think it’s clear that Blizzard doesn’t have a problem with cancelling and reposting auctions, just doing them at automated level speeds. Doesn’t leaving the cancellation throttle in essentially disable the addon’s ability to function through limitless actions in that regard? I’m not sure what function could be disabled to “break” that kind of speed cancelling without affecting it through normal means.

They don’t want to break cancellation as a function, which is different than drawing overlays during a raid encounter as a function.