Dear Blizz,
I’ve been playing WoW off and on since Vanilla Classic. Hardware and technology have come a long way since 2004 but playing on Pagle and Mankrik this week, it wouldn’t seem that way. In the middle of the day, on a Thursday, the AH on both Makrik and Pagle are nigh unusable. With millions of people paying a monthly fee, along with mount and deluxe edition upgrades income, in all seriousness, can you not invest in some new tech/infrastructure that allows us to play without this horrible latency?
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AH lag has nothing to do with the servers.
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It doesn’t? Pretty sure the AH runs on servers with database backends same with the mail system, etc…
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Do you have a layout of all the server, database and backend infra? If so, I’d love to see it as I work in the industry. If not, I’d love to see what is causing the extreme slowness.
Ya remeber how the AH lagged like this back in classic oh wait
Programming that wasn’t designed for over about 60k auctions topped by a poorly designed kludge that was supposed to “fix” it.
100k+ auctions on Pagle today.
So… Blizzard, time for a new AH backend and code?
Mankrik had 170k yesterday.
They have a new AH designed for this server architecture, however, I hope they don’t load it since I make way more gold off the Classic AH.
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Wait… wouldn’t that be changes?! O.o
Yea it does sound like some infrastructure upgrades might be in order to handle modern player counts. Crazy stuff though!
Hopefully they do bring in the AH overhaul to Classic, without the cross faction bit. Would kill the majority of scummy AH behaviors, and people posting hundreds of singles would be a non-issue.
Something has to give unless we hope for bleeding of player count but honestly, it seems like it’s just getting worse!
ban TSM and similar addons
problem solved
you’re stupid if you think addons are the issue.
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Ban posting of multiple, singular, stackable items.
Ban posting of anything more than 15% different than the current average posted price.
Remove bids.
All about as good as banning AH addons.
Then they better bring in the Retail AH.
The ‘stock’ AH from yesteryear is atrocious. And easily exploited.
Want to screw over the entire server? Post single-count stacks of items with a low bid amount but high buyout.
When people go to sort by ‘Current Bid’ it sorts by the “lowest bid”. But because you’ve set the bid amount well below the buyout, you can effectively make it impossible to buy any item. Unless said buyers want to page through 100+ pages of your listings.
BTW: It’s not AH addon causing this current situation. Because if it was it would be present in Classic, which it’s not. Even in the early months of Classic the AH only had minor lag (even on servers like Pagle).
This started when TBCC dropped. My bet is it has to do with the WoW Token discovered; as in they are implementing it into the AH (like on Retail) and it’s causing some problems due to the archaic code of the older version of the game.
EDIT: I say this because the severe lag only, as far as I can recall, started right around the time WoWhead reported on the discovery of the WoW Token for the NA/EU TBCC servers.
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Regardless, it’s horrendous and seems to be getting worse, even in the middle of weekdays.
It’s getting bad, but still not as bad as BfA launch, but we might get there.
I don’t remember bad AH at BfA launch but BfA is like a bad memory so… 
it was bad, horrible, it’s the reason they eventually upgraded the ah.