Classic Server Auction House 4 Day Shutdown

[Lothire-illidan]

From 10AM PDT tomorrow (May 14) to May 18, every classic Auction House will be shut down. Any idea what this is for?

[Lorililly-pagle]

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WoW Classic Auction House to Temporarily Close on May 14

In order to prepare our game service to be ready for both the upgrade to The Burning Crusade Classic and the availability of Classic Era realms on May 18, we will close the Auction Houses on all WoW Classic realms at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT) on Friday, May 14. We expect Auction Houses to become available again when the game service resumes following maintenance on May 18. We advise WoW Classic players to refrain from posting new auctions shortly before the closure, as it will not be poss…

[Robokappa-sargeras (Robokappa)]

for the snapshot/duping

[Noscopedmon-area-52]

its for swag

[Qri-azuresong]

@Lothire-illidan

Any idea what this is for?

Sure! They’re splitting every realm into 2 realms, every character into 2 characters. What are all the rules for auction house items posted, not sold,already sold, mailing returned items, mailing gold earned, etc, etc,

Rather than create dozens of new rules, and applying all those rules to TENS OF THOUSANDS of items…why not avoid the whole thing? The AH is shut down for 4 days before the split. ALL auctions have timed out, long before the split.

Tada! You just saved tens of thousands of transactions, dozens of rules, and a whole mess of BUGS (to be handled by humans). What a sweet deal!

[Netes-bloodsail-buccaneers]

Look for blue posts and read them.

[Joobers-kromcrush]

Pretty sure they’re being turned into a RMAH.