Think I’ve used it since BC, I’ve looked for replacements but it’s still the best, I think Elkano’s Buff Bars comes the closest to replacing it but I still prefer CTMod.
Yeah also in addition to this moron rattling off false information in order to push some bs agenda, what does it matter what the addon did in it’s “early days”?
Was the hotfix made 8 years ago or today?
The issue today is that the AH is virtually unusable for anyone posting more than a few items, and this change is going to screw over regular folks the most.
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I just use a full ui overhaul called supervillian ui because i like to cackle madly while pewpewing
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Obviously our opinions differ.
We do it because LIFO has created this problem. I don’t like doing, I wish I could just post my stuff and play the game, then come back and check my sales 24hrs later. But with LIFO I don’t sell anything because canceling and reposting is the new meta.
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I find that highly suspect. I have said several times… It’s automated once you set it up properly. If you still have to look at prices and decide to post or not after setting it up properly you’re obviously using it wrong.
It’s meant to be a set up once and hit the button kinda app.
This pretty much. This won’t stop the people who have multi-box accounts that literally cancel-scan all day in the background while they play on their main account. (shoot, I’m thinking about doing this now so that I can actually, y’know, play the game instead of stand at the AH for hours).
What it WILL do is inflate prices by reducing supply and make players like me either quit or go more degenerate goblin mode.
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They just need to change the system back to FIFO. Their idiocy and using aLIFO system had created this issue. This is all on blizz for not understanding economics.
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This helps no one.
The casual seller will see an infinitesimal increase in their ability to move short term sales, which will be more than offset by the net increase in prices caused by making bulk posting and cancel scans not work.
A more competitive market helps everyone, including people who only buy, or even only rarely sell.
Kinda why Id like to see cancel scans broken. The auctions should be listed for timeframe we set them for and left until it expires.
course, they’ll just start listing batches of 10 at a time to keep undercutting, I suppose.
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Two much easier solutions:
- Don’t let people cancel auctions.
- Let people post non-expiring auctions.
I sell 30-50 rare items, and trade pets. It took me 10 minutes to run a search for rare pets that I am looking for. It took 15 minutes for me to post the 44 rare items I had to sell today.
I don’t do cancel scans and repost. If it was possible, I’d set my items up and leave them up until someone bought them. But I currently post once a day, collect expired auctions, and re-post… And now this is going to take a painfully long time.
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Won’t be riding that one the first time you accidentally post an auction at the wrong price.
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I thought about that too, but you just know they’ll start using the AH for storage if blizz allowed this. Someone ALWAYS has to abuse and take advantage and ruin things for the rest of us
Yeah #goblinLivesMatter indeed.
Sad to hear about this news.
Hope it gets reverted. Only playing wow at the moment to farm gold for my brutossaurs mount. If that’s not gone, I will probably leave the game. Too much unnecessary changes to a game that we love, making it look like a complete different experience… sad to see a great game like this dying a bit more each day…
A really sad day.
The throttle limit is way too low, to the point of affecting casuals. If you have more than 1 profession inventory, you’re gonna have a bad time. This is a really bad solution.
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People that sit all day playing the auction house on multiple accounts are going to love this change, Blizz just wiped out a huge amount of their competition. Also, if you hadn’t gotten that 5 million gold mount Blizz has for sale, you never will now, unless of course you buy it from a gold seller.
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Thats because you have no clue what you’re talking about and got caught lying about it. That’s it.
Not by any means, if you think that, you never used it and the extent of knowledge you have about it is titles of youtube videos at most.
The only thing it does out of the ordinary is not posting below a set price, that’s it. If you use it as an “automation” tool you’ll end up losing all your gold.
But be free to show real examples of how it automates everything. I’m waiting.
Yeah, it might. But it would stop people from canceling and reposting
every 30min.
Make cancelling early hurt more. I think the problem lies with the goblins who post and cancel the same item every minute of the day.
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I mean, I guess that could make sense, if making sense is an appropriate way to describe it.
If they’re handling the throttle server-side, rather than client-side, then for every player and/or goblin sitting there trying to hit the POST button and having it not go through, then the server has to be handling that request, checking it against a new memory cache it needs for this purpose, and rejecting the request.
So, basically, by introducing the throttle, they could be multiplying the number of requests they need to handle, since the player doesnt stop hitting POST till the request eventually goes through?
I can only imagine that being a problem if their API itself handles requests very inefficiently but…
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