I’m just speechless. “forgetting a semicolon” is the only bug you know in Java. Oh, btw, pretty sure wow backend codebase is not just in Java.
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It is very likely that there is major issue in the system design of that cross realm trading. “forgetting a semicolon”, lmao. The code wouldn’t even compile with that bug. Pretty sure there is no syntax error in the code as the feature was released and LIVE for a day.
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And as I was checking the history of an item on oribos exchange, I noticed the instability they’ve been talking about must’ve been some issue that caused AH to not work properly for 4-5h during the afternoon (in eu) of wednesday, the first day where cross realm trading was enabled in eu, hadn’t noticed this till now, because on oribos exchange usually updates to items happen every hour, instead in that case it took 5h to update, hinting either the AH was down or something related to it, that also happens when servers are down for example.
Understandable something like this could cause unforeseen issues. IMO as long as they get it back and enabled before 11.0 we’re good.
What I don’t want to see is some whining around 11.0 that it’s gone and they’d “like to bring it back buuuut” and then something about huge technical problems and not having the resources and costing a raid tier to fix it and being something they’ll work on to get done in future (read: put on back burner and maybe come back to years later).
Kind of like how they said they couldn’t increase backpack bag size. I don’t want to hear that this is not a solvable problem or that it’ll take expansions of work and have an indeterminable resolution time that will not be set in stone or even laid out and may be internally moved back in favor of other things.
Solving problems like this and the faction merger are essential at this point. They’re no longer kind of interesting experiments or ideas, they’re things that have to be done to support the massively shrunken playerbase going forward.
(P.S. Put the biggest servers like Moon Guard on beefier hardware and with beefier configurations than normal servers, double the RAM, add another processor or two, whatever, get it fixed because I feel like some of these issues I’ve seen are going to continue cropping up in all kinds of new changes they make)
Actually they already damaged some of us with this false promise of the cross realm trading: there had been a transfer discount 1 month or less before the patch with cross realm trading came, so some of us didn’t go for that (would’ve helped at selling some items), thinking we could just transfer them now, and now we find out we can’t because of blizzard messing up? Where’s our transfer discount again?
For some of us it’s already a serious setback even if they fix it right now, let alone in another week or month or even in the end of DF!
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They might need to look into hiring someone to remove the “temporarily” part.
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I played EQ2 where a bug was found to just be some idiot commented out the wrong line of code.
It broke some animations.
And I found the bug.
Comments and syntax in general cover about 80% of the bugs I dealt with on a regular basis when it came to pc applications. Kind of glad I don’t work in that field anymore though. Nowadays there are a million armchair devs and programmers to tell you how wrong you are. I’ll stick to NC programming and machining instead 
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yes, that was my point. it’s something much more difficult to debug. i wasn’t the one claiming it would be easy to figure out what the problem was and fix it.
Oh, I know it’s not easy, and I couldn’t even begin to understand coding and whatnot. What I can understand, however, is poor customer service. That is what we are getting at the moment. The number of bugs we’ve seen present in a single patch (multiple patches by now as well) is not okay. If this is what we get with rapid fire content releases, I’d prefer that they slow down.
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Given the amount of time this has been disabled, my money is its a problem with ensuring atomic transactions during a trade.
A duplication bug could cause some real havoc.
Bump and pray for update 
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As far as I heard there actually was some kind of duplication bug early on, at least some people said they had such an issue when trading gold.
This is getting absolutely absurd. An explanation and an ETA on a fix are long overdue and well-deserved, especially for those who took advantage of the update on release, for the short while that it was active, and woke up the following day to gold scattered across servers.
We used the mechanic as intended and are now punished for it. To add insult to injury, we are given no updates whatsoever for ten days. Indefensible.
If the issue is a duplication glitch, I can understand the time it has taken to resolve, but considering the feature is now disabled, it wouldn’t hurt for Blizzard to at least explain this to us instead of leaving us in the dark. If the issue is bots trading rapidly and incessantly, causing too much traffic across servers, then a simple fix would be to limit cross-server trades on a daily or weekly basis and go from there.
In any case, we deserve at least a once sentence update. At least.
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so uhm guys any updates?
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I’m still not sure what it even means. I send stuff from my Alliance on Greymane to my Horde on Thunderhorne everyday. Today even. Granted it’s BOA, are they referring to something else?
yeah. non boa items.
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I’m not sure they understand what the word “temporarily” means.
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i stopped trusting blizzard at all after they lied about not deleting upper blackrock spire and instead permanently deleted it from existance with NO PRIOR WARNING.
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Sooo…about that cross realm trading…? Where is it?
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