Auction house changes, yay or nah?

I second this, I wouldn’t need to post as often means this change would affect me much less than it is in current iteration.

That’s like with anything else… master loot… also comes to mind… removing bruto from vendor etc… the group where it doesn’t affect them come to white knight Blizzard’s decisions with this weird logic of theirs.

You don’t have to click post, you can mousewheel it actually. No clicking required. Also if you right click and hit post on everything, anything without a listing will be by default without TSM just… throw it up there for basically nothing.

There is too much to calculate to get a reasonable deposit fee. With their earlier 20% increase before, it was horrible and still has some mats literally not worth posting 'cause the deposit is so high.

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They do!

Click the person’s portrait and select “View Activity”.
On the next screen, go to the upper right and click “Normal”. A drop-down menu will appear.

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I have a little over 2000 items i post to the AH. I re-post them when they expire and don’t cancel them, so about two to maybe three times a week. It would normally take me about an hour to post everything, but now it took over 4 hours to re-post everything last night using TSM because I kept getting throttled.

I am not in favour of this change.

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Thank you for acknowledging that you you’re watching these threads. Hopefully you will continue and engage in a dialog with the community regarding this very clearly hot topic.

I would also encourage you to practice what you preach. You’re asking us for “detailed feedback on your experiences.” I would only ask that you do the same, and provide us detailed information on why you felt this change was necessary. “Not good for the game” is not helpful for us to craft feedback that specifically targets whatever it is you’re trying to fix.

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Semantics really, mouse wheel is still an input, just like clicking.

Which is ridiculous.

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If you had to click the wheel, sure. But each little movement in the mousewheel ‘counts’ as a click, which you can spin the mousewheel infinitely faster than you could ever click. With TSM, you also don’t wait to verify the price is ‘correct’ if nothing is listed.

Nay, not in it’s current implementation. They need to at the very least up the limit.

I understand why they implemented the throttle, hundreds or even thousands of pings a second can take a toll on a server. BUT besides the increased traffic cause of the current RL crisis and people trying to make their long boi money before Shadowlands hits nothing has really changed in years, yet now everyone that has more than just a handful of merchandise for the auction house is being punished for those very few (in comparison) that do cause those thousands of pings a second cause of botting or w/e other means.

That’s just not right…

That’s still a hardware event per auction. You, as a user, still need to physically do something with the keyboard or mouse in order to post an auction.

Why is that ridiculous? Because you don’t/won’t do it to? He provides 2000 items for people to purchase on the AH. Should those people not be allowed to buy those objects because you feel one person shouldn’t be able to sell that many?

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I honestly appreciate that you are watching this thread. Here is the crux of the matter. What you did yesterday was not right. You snuck in a hot-fix for something that should not have been hot-fixed. Blizzards MAIN problem is that you fail to COMMUNICATE with us the customer. When you indicated that you (blizzard) were going to be reworking the auction house, Ion himself said that you (Blizzard) were nervous to revamp 15-year-old code. There was NEVER a TSM problem with the auction house prior to the revamp of the auction house. When there were problems with the auction house and mailing issue, TSM worked with you guys to try and help you fix the problem and it was resolved. There is a much bigger problem that needs to be fixed in the game rather than the auction house. That bigger problem is the lag in main cities. It is almost unbearable; I have put in bug reports about this several times as has many of my other friends. Bur instead you (blizzard) are going to focus in on something that is not the real problem
Fast forward to yesterday when the throttling was implemented. I have 400-600 auctions that I have worked hard to get, spending MANY hours farming, herbing etc. It took me almost 2 hours yesterday to get those posted because of the throttling. (My auctions had expired overnight) Something that would have usually taken 30-40 minutes took way longer than what it should have. I have been using TSM since legion and it surprises me that there has NEVER been a problem with TSM before until blizzard decided to fix 15-year-old code.

As a customer of blizzard’s I am not usually one to complain when there are game issues, I follow the correct channels of what I am suppose to do. Yet, now I get things taken away from me as a form of a punishment. You are quick to say that people are causing a back log because of people spending 12+ hours a day posting and canceling. Holy moly, who has the time for that? I most certainly do not. I am honestly really disappointed in you blizzard.

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Quote from the bluepost stated that some auction house addons had automation. What were users doing in TSM that you think would be considered automation, Marroc? :slight_smile:

There goes the long tail (transmog, battle pets, other expansion mats, etc.). You’ll be left with a bunch of AH hardcores in a bloodbath fight to sell a much smaller set of high-use items. Casual sellers continuing to be ‘undercut’ with the same speed. For items that don’t sell as much, there will be fewer of them available, and at much higher prices.

Anything that has a slower sell rate now makes far less sense to list. Something that would have taken me less than ten minutes now looks like it would take 45 - not worth it.

For the folks putting up thousands of transmog items (most of which have no competing listings, i.e., the item would be otherwise unavailable), this is the kiss of death to their hobby. It transforms a 1 hour listing effort into half a day’s work.

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Because it’s clogging up the AH with a bunch of garbage that isn’t selling.

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I have seen one mouse with an open flywheel setting (logitech), and no matter how fast you can spin the mousewheel you can only post so fast even before this (once every 300 ms or so) and you can easily click that fast.

You don’t need to do that with the base ui either, it auto posts at lowest current price.

Frankly the blue post is blowing smoke up everyone’s butts because this is how it’s worked for a decade and a half. Even back in the auctioneer days.

If anything automation is not having to right click auctions into the sell frame and calculating the price without me having to sit there and figure it out every time.

VIdeo evidence disproves your claim of being able to click faster than mousewheel, Wirt. Blizzard, also seems to have disproved that.