From Tom Ellis on Twitter:
“So what’s going on with the Auction House is an interesting tech problem, a well meaning and simple design change caused a DB table that used to hold 20-60k rows to now contain tens of millions. Not a problem by itself but we’ve got some code changes to make to support this new world we live in. We’re going to throw more hardware at the problem with maintenance while people far more clever than me work on actual solutions.”
Now kindly go on your way.
So basically it’s going to continue being terrible until Tuesday, and then it’ll be a bit better until the new hardware reaches the new ceiling, at which point we’ll need to wait until the true solution in DB coding changes are made and pushed to the servers?
Excellent.
Why why why would they make a change like this at the expansion start? This is the sort of thing that should be handled in a mid expansion patch when less is going on.
they was trying to add it at the start with out a hitch but it went batty this was not a spur of the moment addition they was doing
That’s not the way development is done. Major changes come with a major version. It has to do with the way work is organized and the way development projects are funded.
thanks for posting!
I guess thats that. Hopefully remedied soon
The original AH revamp was 8.3. The region-wide commodities were added in 9.2.7. So it’s certainly a way they’ve done development in the past.
Devs won’t dare acknowledge the bot problem, they still deny there are ground clipping bots and interrupt bots.
It was probably something they had been working on since near the beginning of the development effort for the expansion. My guess is that what you are looking at there is the point where the feature was released.
It sounds like two different teams not talking to each other and now one of them has to fix the issues caused by the other since the other team went ahead and updated everything before the backend database could be adjusted as well.
Classic Blizzard.
I’m a bit concerned about qualifying any change to the game as “well-meaning,” when the very possibility of a malicious change should be so far outside of the realm of possibility no qualifier is needed.
It’s not in the sense of well meaning vs malicious.
Well meaning can just refer to a situation like this where the positive intent was there but had a negative outcome
Hmm. Yes I guess if someone messed something up that is a better way of putting it rather than drag them on X.
Oh is this why I can’t buy any ore without it being sold out as soon as I click? And here I thought it was the people using AH addons to post 1 ore for 1/2 price to bait people into posting on top of them so the bait person could buy it out. Glad I know it’s not AH automation hijinks and just those pesky developers and their database changes!