I mean, it doesn’t. It’s a place where you bid gold against other players for rare stuff. It’s possible to luck out and get something for super cheap, though.
Oh, you’re kind of sketchy. Also no, the auction durations are extended, so you can’t “snipe” them unless you mean looking for low priced thing son dead servers but there’s plenty of people doing that.
Hm? No, that’d be stuff like repairs/transmog then crafting mats only available from vendors for and whatever. 99% of people don’t touch the bmah, and the bmah only drains a bit of gold every now and again.
It’s a gold sink for people with too much gold. There are some people with so much gold and they don’t have anything left to buy. The BMAH is for them.
BMAH isn’t supposed to be for everyone, it’s kind of made for those whales with gold sitting in the back room bidding on some exotic rare items [not literally, just painting a picture] lol
IMO BMAH combined with tokens makes rare cosmetics into cash shop items with just enough ambiguity to argue somewhat effectively that their not.
It’s a gold sink for players with too much gold.
If you don’t have the gold, you can’t buy the gold sink.
I do like that BMAH has no power tied to it.
I don’t like that items removed from the game that are somewhat prestigious to have are available on there.
Either way it’s not going away any time soon.
It would be nice to have more lower prestige items on there available to the common man who isn’t a goblin, but then the goblin’s would just buy them up.