This is a really upsetting change. I used to be a hardcore raider until IRL changes meant I could no longer do that - but “playing the AH” has kept me in the game, kept my subscriptions ticking over, with the hope that one day I will be able to “play properly” again. The AH is literally what keeps me here. I’m not even a very big goldmaker, I’m just here keeping things chugging along casually because I’m not ready to let go and unsubscribe from WoW.
This morning on my main bank alt I had 112 items to post. A mix of enchants, transmog, bits and pieces. I don’t feel this is a terribly excessive amount. I am quite casual when it comes to making gold, but again, it’s what keeps me active in the game. Trying to post 112 auctions right now is brutal.
The new AH gutted the bulk of my income through trade goods. That sucked a bit, but I understood that the AH revamp would help many people, so I didn’t complain - I adjusted. With the Winds of Wisdom buff active, I decided to finally level alts to cover crafting professions that I had never bothered with in the past, to diversify. But if listing crafted items is going to be this painful, I have zero incentive to have those crafters, and so zero incentive to level new characters.
This is so disappointing and seems like a “fix” that has been implemented to put a veneer on the AH’s flaws rather than actually address them (much like the terrible deposit fee fix that was in place for far too long while the new AH was developed). TSM, Auctioneer etc have been in place for over a decade - why are they suddenly now an issue for the economy? What changed? Do we not contribute to the economy?
Remember when deposit fees on old world goods were utterly ridiculous and so people just stopped posting them for months and months? Well now we’ll go back to that again because nobody is going to want to chew up their posting budget for old world goods.
How is it helpful for a server’s economy if the AH feels like too much of a chore for people to bother with it?
The timing of this change is also terrible, at a time when many new goldmakers are jumping in to try and get their brutosaur before you take it away in a matter of mere months. The brutosaur is undeniably a reward and status symbol for generating excessive amounts of gold - but now goblins are being punished for doing so. This is the third time the goalposts have been shifted.
Please, PLEASE reconsider this. If it is not to be reverted, then at least widen the limit substantially 