Resorting to insults? G’day Gov’na!
thats what i asked earlier and it made no sense to me. if people had no idea that they were linked [or not linked] and because of that, you didnt see those things, why is this a problem now?
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Uh, that’s not an insult. Its a statement about your inability to let the issue go.
Well they DID know they weren’t linked. This meant that the majority of the playerbase would have a defacto “main” AH. (IF for alliance, Org for Horde) which meant that anyone who used any of the other AHs saw significantly less postings, less traffic, etc. it’s a very niche desire to go back to these unlinked AHs, I’m not quite sure I understand the point of it-as people would just use the main AH anyways. More of an annoyance for the sake of annoyance. No point, imo
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i thought it was because IF was considered the main hub for the alliance? and Org for horde. i never really noticed that, if thats true. i dont see an issue at all. why do faction auction houses need to be linked? i know that it eventually led into retail wow and us having universally linked auction houses but not sure why any of this applies to classic.
That actually created a mini game in itself for auction ppl.
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Well, Classic is 1.12 version of the game. In 1.12, the AHs were linked across a faction. So, bottom line, they’ll be linked in Classic
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obviously. thats what blizzard did. i wonder how that will effect IF being the alliance hub now?
IF will still be the Alliance hub. It is closest to everything worth being close to.
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It’ll probably still be the main hub. Better centralized area, closer to the main raiding areas early on (ZG being the only real exception) - faster FP to menithil harbor (boat to get to Ony) etc
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good points.
If thorium point is in the game, it’ll be far harder to say that.
Not to mention the biggest end game dungeons are all right there. Then a quick boat ride (from Menethil) can take you to The other continent for DM/silithus content. I don’t see anything changing
Could be. PvP’ers will also likely be more prone to have SW as hub.
I think you’re confusing Cross-Faction Linked Auction Houses and Same-Faction Linked Auction Houses.
Cross-Faction linked auction houses didnt happen until way later with Warlords of Draenor.
Instead this post is talking about how in pre-1.9 Vanilla, for example, if you post something on the Stormwind Auction House, it would only be be posted to the Stormwind Auction House and it would not show up on the Ironforge or Darnassus Auction Houses, as each of the 3 auction houses within the same faction were independent from eachother.
However in Vanilla patch 1.9 and beyond, each faction’s 3 auction houses merged (Stormwind/Ironforge/Darnassus and Orgrimmar/Thunderbluff/Undercity).
So to reiterate, any auction post made to the Horde auction house in Classic, does NOT show up on the Alliance auction houses and vice versa.
Booty Bay is still the one and only neutral auction house that is cross-faction in Classic as this did not change at all during vanilla in any patch, and is still 100% independent from the Alliance and Horde auction houses.
Anyways, this was a highly welcomed change back during Vanilla. No one, and I mean Absolutely NO ONE complained about it during 1.9-1.12.2… so I don’t know why morons today are attempting to complain about it with their moronic #NoChanges tag, when the authentic vanilla players didn’t. So it’s great that Blizzard is sticking to the version 1.12 patch version of the Auction House and not intentionally reverting it to the stupid pre-1.9 version. Seriously, it would be very annoying to have to travel to the three auction houses to check if an item you want is posted (or was posted on one for less than the other two).
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However, in 1.9 it was linked with Winterspring and Gadgetzan.
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Also, just to clarify this point that he keeps making incorrectly…
The period prior to 1.9 was 55% of the Vanilla period, and 1.9 onwards was 45%. Hardly the “entirety of Vanilla”. Its a toss up on the timeperiod, and 1.12 is just as valid. “Three fourths” is only correct if you ignore that fully 25% of Vanilla existed after 1.12.
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I always forget about those other 2, since unless you’re a druid, it was always quicker to go to Booty Bay for Alliance (I mained an Alliance Hunter when I started). But yes, the 3 goblin neutral auction houses also merged together and remained independent from the respective Alliance and Horde auctions.
Right. You said that, and that’s very nice, but we’re getting linked auction houses. Have a good day.
You’d think unlinked AH’s would give players more strategic choices, but that’s not the way it actually played in Vanilla.
With the unlinked auction houses each faction had ONE city where EVERYONE went for auction stuff. The other 4 capitol cities’ auction houses were never used by anyone.
Since nobody used those other auction houses, there was no choice on where to go. If you were Alliance used the Ironforge AH. Horde used the Orgrimmar AH.
The only other AH used was the cross-faction one in Booty Bay, but that one usually had a much smaller selection of specialty items since it was very out-of-the-way.
Linking the auction houses was an attempt to try to get players to use the other 4 capitol cities. It didn’t work either. Players were used to only having the one main city and that’s where everyone continued to go.