They finally did one major change to the economy, allowing us to trade items and gold cross realm, which presumably means we can send gold across alts from Zul’Jin to Frostmourne, or Quel’thalas to Area 52, or anything, take your pick.
So if the AH does not change to region wide, players can just post gold to a level 10 alt on whatever random server they made the alt on and just buy the items somewhere else.
Personally I think this will be worse than opening the AH, because this means players can just ignore any server with high AH prices, send over some gold, buy the items you want and send the spare gold and items back.
Want a nice mount that is 500K on your server and 50K over yonder? How about that nice rare transmog that is never even available on your server? Any AH with high prices, dead in the water.
The way I read that is not that we can send gold and items to other characters, but that we can trade items - so for example if I do a dungeon with someone on Illidan to help them level up a character, I can trade items from the dungeon with them, including green drops off mobs.
The blue post says : Previously this was limited to things like conjured items or eligible raid/dungeon loot which seems to reinforce that its from specific types of play.
I may be wrong, but my thought was that if it was a matter of mailing gold, that would have been worded that way, and the wording doesn’t indicate it.
Thanks. I do think AH should be region wide. I have toons on high pop realms just to find pets/toys etc - now this change will help me do this easier. So it makes no sense those items aren’t just region wide
So what’s to stop you trading gold to someone and than getting them to send that to your own alt on the same server? There are work arounds, and even if it is just trading items and gold from dungeon runs, multi box, or running an alt on some random server with a friend on a level 10 dungeon will bypass all that anyway.
No I agree the wording is a bit confusing. It seems a weird way to say that the transfer of gold and items to any character is now ok. But shrug it could just be somebody not being good at clearly explaining something.
PS: it could also be a way of making cross realm/cross faction instanced gameplay smoother.
Even if you are right, and you probably are, we all know how bad things are explained here.
Say your server has that stupid donkey mount from BFA on your AH for 50K, but it’s 800K on my server, I can just make an alt on your server and run RFC with a friend, 5 minutes tops, get my friend to trade 50K to my alt and go buy the mount.
If it does work out that way, it will have a huge effect on server markets. You will have people doing exactly that: checking on Oribox Exchange to see what thing sell for, find the cheapest, and exchange gold to get it. The AH in consumables has already been drastically effected by region wide selling (both for good and bad) and this could have much the same effect.
I don’t know if its a good or bad move, I guess it will depend on any restrictions and how some players figure out ways to work the new system.
I suspect - and only suspect - that it will improve the transmog market. I sell mog items and on my servers they are very slow. If they can be accessed across the region, things are likely to move faster.
100% this and mounts and pets. I even went as far as making an alt on another server and buying a token because the pet and mount prices were so far better than what I had on my server.
And still to this day I am trying to get that HD shield that drops from WoD, the BC updated model, but it never sells on my AH, I would be happy to buy it if it ever was up.
Yep. I used to be able to afford those. Now I won’t. And if the AH isn’t changing with this, then so much for everything else, as well. Because that just means things will be even more expensive.
As a multiboxer, either way works. They can restrict mail if they want but I would still be able to trade with my own alts and wreak havoc upon any server economy I choose. This move is a not a good one at all.
I didn’t think of this initially. This has gone from bad to worse.
I think some of the reactions may be a bit overblown.
If I have something rare to sell on, say, Frostmourne, it only has the single AH market and therefore a very limited number of potential customers. However, if players from other servers have access (in whatever way it works out to be) to that AH it means that (like the consumables market) I have a lot more potential customers to sell that item to. That is not necessarily a bad thing.
Rarer items, by their nature, are rare and if they are selling for a high price, its not likely that your market is going to be inundated with them. Sure, instead of one of them there may end up being three of them, but then if they don’t sell there and the price goes up somewhere else, they may end up being purchased and then put up for sale again somewhere else. It depends on how much work anyone wants to put into the rarer/smaller quantity end of the market.
If gold is transferrable across all realms, it would benefit me because I would be able to shift all the smaller quantities from gold I have on various misc servers to my main so that I could use that for my sub payments. I would probably end up deleting a lot of those misc characters which would make my account maintenance a lot easier.
It probably would impact on the BM which I think is a fairly small concern for a lot of players. I know I havent bid on anything there for years since very few things that interest me were affordable. And I suspect a lot of things that went to the BM will end up on the Trading Post - I wouldnt be surprised if Blizzard eventually phased out the BM.
Anyhow, I think I’ll wait to get nervous until I see more details on its inclusions and exclusions.
I would hate region wide auction house. It’s bad enough on the high pop realms constantly cancel scanning and things being little to no profit. Wouldn’t even be able to do anything in the game anymore except baby sit auctions and hope to afford the monthly token.
