Afraid you remember incorrectly, champ.
I distinctively recall always using UC and I would be on vent with friends who were at other AH’s we would see the same items, same seller, same price.
Correct
I also recall that when you would ask a city guard in SW ‘Where is the AH’ they would “say the SW auction house is under renovation and will be opened soon. In the mean time go to IF.”
And IMO the stuff that was in Beta classic doesn’t count as vanilla. it was never in the released game.
Unlinked Auction Houses were added in patch 1.9, past the point of Vanilla AND after most of the other patches. Remember people, we started at 1.1, only this time the content patches will be slower because they want everybody to have a chance to experience the content at a similar pace, WITHOUT being rushed!. So by the time we hit the 1.9 AQ content in Classic, much of the content would have slowly passed.
The AH’s added in 1.9 were linked.
https://www.mmorpg.com/world-of-warcraft/news/patch-notes-patch-19-1000004324
Highlights of The Gates of Ahn’Qiraj - Patch 1.9:
- [The Temple of Ahn’Qiraj]
- [New Armor Models]
- [Linked Auction Houses]
- [Multiple Battlegrounds Queues]
- [New Raid Dungeon Reset System]
- [New Timbermaw Hold 1.9 Reputation Rewards]
- [Paladin Talent Update]
- And much more!
Correct.
Prior to 1.9
there were only 3 AH’s: 1 in Org and 1 in IF and 1 in Gadgetzan
From the 1.9 patch notes:
Players will now be able to buy and sell goods with greater effectiveness using the Linked Auction House system. Auction Houses in Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thunder Bluff will now share the same pool of Horde player-created auctions, and Alliance players will find the same to be true when visiting Ironforge, Stormwind City, and Darnassus Auction Houses. This system has been expanded to support the neutral Auction Houses as well. Tanaris, Everlook, and Booty Bay will all be linked for players of both factions to access. In addition, the “Looking for Group” and “Trade” channels have been unified among the corresponding cities, meaning, for example, that you can trade your goods or look for groups in Ironforge while in Stormwind.
Please note the part where it says:
will now share the same pool of Horde player-created auctions
Prior to 1.9 Auction Houses (and trade/looking for group chats) were not “linked” with each other.
If you saw the same auctions by the same sellers, the only possible answer is that someone manually traveled to each location to provide the greatest number of buyers for themselves. You could post on all auction houses available to you, but the contents were not linked. If you wanted someone in Darnassus to see your [Wool Cloth - 2g/stack - sold by Willaby] you needed to go to Darnassus and post it there.
This is one of those “memories are faulty” moments, unfortunately. While I’m sure you remember that experience, you either saw it after 1.9 or saw an auction goblin posting the same stuff in multiple Auction Houses.
This isn’t an argument to be won, because even the games patch notes agree. Auction houses were linked in 1.9, and prior to that they were not linked.
Prior to 1.9, those other AH’s didn’t even exist. so you can’t even remember that part wrong. A lot of people here are remembering those AH’s being there when they weren’t.
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WoW 's Auction House systems are no longer centered in a single city. On the Alliance side, new AHs have sprung up in Stormwind (near the bank, in the Trade District) and in Darnassus, while the Horde have new houses in the Undercity and Thunder Bluff linked to the main one in Orgrimmar. Additionally, the cross-faction Auction House in Gadgetzan now has two more extensions in Booty Bay and Everlook.
That is dated the date patch 1.9 was released.
People arguing are either:
1 - Not a player from Vanilla era and are regurgitating something someone elses has said
2 - A player but have a hazy memory
Someone should lock this thread. Its FAKE NEWS
The purpose of the phases is for content release, not updates to QoL. All of those should be figured before release.
And no, there was nothing “microeconomic” about it. Everyone just used a single city for the majority of AH activity, centralizing it to make up for the lack of linked AH.
So this is really blowing my mind, because I could swear that before the BC pre-patch the only faction city’s that had AH at all were IF and Org. Which was the reason 90% of people stayed in those city’s when not actively doing things out in the world
Close, it wasn’t the BC patch it was in 1.9 when the other AH’s were released.
You are 100% correct that the only AH’s were originally in Org and IF.
This changed in 1.9.
Did you take an extended break between 1.9 and 2.0 (pre-bc patch)?