This is an awful change that actively makes the game less fun for me. Most of my activity in game lately has been trying to make enough gold to afford a longboi. If this change isn’t reverted quickly, I’m not going to be continuing my subscription in the future. I’m not a player who constantly threatens to quit over patches that I don’t like, but putting a huge damper on the activity that’s the most fun for me means I no longer have an incentive to keep playing the game.
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i only want to cry
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Wonder what will happen to the people who buy gold tokens for cash when all the ah people leave and don’t buy their tokens.
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lets cry together dude
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Nay!
These addons are free and there are a million guides all over the internet on how to use them. Please don’t try to ruin a fun aspect of the game for me blizzard, the AH is pretty much the only reason I still play anymore.
Saying that an AH addon gives an unfair advantage because not everyone knows how to use it is sort of like saying that it’s not fair if I make a lot of money trading stocks because “other people don’t know how to do it!”. Well then learn!
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Bingo. This is the real root of the problem.
Hell, you can get one of the simpler addons that take no setup at all just to post things. It’s what I do honestly, I have no use for all of the bells and whistles of tsm, just good ol auctionator.
It’s not against the rules, and yes anyone can use it… but sometimes addons do too much. They’ve removed a lot of addons over the years because they did too much.
TSM makes it unfair to people who don’t use it (Free Download)
Try to join a raid group and tell them you don’t use addons, Let me know how long you last. Hell they might try to boot you from an LFR for saying that
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It is most definitely slower all the way around. I’ve been running it without TSM and it’s taking so long to seach/post/buy that sometimes the action times out before it can be completed. It’s like server lag, but limited only to the AH, which is supposedly “working as intended”. I can only assume it’s because of the reason you suggested.
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TSM used to be fully automated. You didn’t have to press post or cancel, it just did it for you. Their constant scans broke the AH.
Sad to see they locked a thread of feedback with nearly 500 comments instead of moving it to another section.
I really hope they look into this more and address the actual problem such as rampant cancel scanning on high pops instead of taking a blanket approach.
Aslo pasting my previous comment from the locked thread since this is now the proper place for feedback.
Goldmaking has been my main focus in WoW for the better part of the last decade and I’ve spent 10’s of millions on tokens and bought and sold hundreds of thousands of battle pets over the years.
Playing the AH has kept me playing through WoD, BFA, and every content drought this game has ever brought.
If this limit stay in place then I’m not sure I’ll be as willing to stick it out through the slower parts of the game. Nearly all my AHing is done on servers where the AH is fast, and there aren’t a lot of people slowing it down. This change should be dynamic and throttle people at a slower rate and throttle less at off peak hours as well as on lower pop servers where this limit does nothing but hurt the player base.
Please rethink these changes and do not rush this out in it’s current state, there is right way and a wrong way to fix things. This is a wrong way that just needlessly wastes time for a lot of people and makes it unfun to use the new AH.
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Being able to cancel an incorrectly listed item in a timely manner is a critical function of the auction house. Personally, I think they just need to separate the ‘new’ auction house from the ‘old’ auction house at the runtime level. The 8.3 first in first out section obviously needs more time to be able to perform calculations and should have a throttle. They should also remove items like glyphs from that section, it should have only materials and consumables. Probably even limited to just the current expansion. Then the normal section won’t need the throttle due to the increased hardware demands of running the new special section since they’ll be in their own physical hardware space.
They could also do something to fix where the actual problems exist. Having mega population realms like area 52, illidan, ect has always been a problem that needed a solution.
And to the people that keep saying they should ban TSM and/or multiboxing, you have no right to have a say in how others enjoy the game any more than we have a say in how you enjoy the game.
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they haven’t required in game scanning for like 9 years.
TSM never has and never will be fully automated. It’s just a method of setting rules for how you want your auctions listed. It’s no different than a macro including harm or help to change it’s function based on if you’re trying to attack or heal.
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I despise this change.
Why now after FIFTEEN YEARS, why a hotfix and not a patch, and WTF Blizz? There are so many things in this discussion that are better options.
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hell, you could probably make a macro to post things to the AH.
Blizzards API is pretty useful
actually, while I do it, I wouldnt mind seeing it stopped.
It gets tiresome having some jackrod sitting there running cancel scan every 8 seconds.
because they wanted to hide it til they got called out.
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Terrible. I get the idea, but this implementation is awful. I sell (mostly) glyphs and old world enchants. 50 is a joke. I only scan once or twice a day for reposts. Most my auctions i have no competition. I still hit it easy and my normal 10-20- min routine took hours.
I don’t crank up prices, I’m not causing any harm. This will discourage me from continuing to post (i have my mount already) and will actually only hurt people wanting stuff for new toons that i provide…
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