Auction House Poll
" Bots completely destroyed D2 trade even without a trade site )) So it doesn't matter if there is AH, tradingsite, or nothing. If you want bots out - restrict trade. Limit number of items selling, or set time windows for selling or smth like that so that simply will be unprofitable for bots, but will be okay for 99% of players who want to trade. |
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The issue is more like i put something up for sale, it gets listed on the website so far great. The website is easy to do and the ways you can search is the best i have seen. But now the selling it self, i need to either go to the person buying or return to where they can get and you need to be in party and then trade. Also in the mean time I'm not able to play or have any fun.
What i would do is the following. 1. The website stays its easy to navigate and search. 2. When some one wants to buy something the say buy it now no more whispers. If its negotiable then you say i bid x stuff for it (either from in game or website as long as it can tell if you have the items bidding. 3a. By by it now you walk in town or hideout to a mailbox and pick up your item or our currency (when you are the seller). So no more interaction needed. 3b.If you placed a bid then the seller sees this in his mailbox and see the item and what the bid is he/she either accepts or ignores. When accepted see 3a when not accepted it stays listed. 4. Nothing else no need to party or trade all done without interaction of the player and no longs waits until someone response to you. Mailbox is only for pickups of items not for sending items without going trough the website. Also not for sending mail that's for later. | |
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TBH you are all ranting too much.
Do you know you have the power to message people ``Offline`` and request the item? In this way, both sides can be happy, who offers and who sells |
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If they want trading to be a big part of the game, then, yes, they need to support it with an auction house. It just avoids a lot of issues like missing requests to buy stuff, RMT companies putting up stuff they have no intent to sell to sucker newbies into listing their stuff at overly cheap prices, having your gameplay interrupted to go sell stuff, and so on.
That said, personally, I'd rather see them take the hammer to trading in general, and instead fix up the loot drop system so that loot drops, not trading, is the main way a player who makes this one of their main games gets gear. |
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" You literally message the person offline by saying you would like to buy his item and then set up a meeting time. What is so hard about it? |
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So, I've always thought an Auction House in games like this are terrible ideas. (Diablo 3 learnt that lesson the hard way).
However the system we have now isn't perfect. If they added in a 3 strike system where we could strike out people who are inactive on the trade site, that would lift stress a little~ But even then it opens the door to have people abuse that system too. As of current, and though it isn't perfect. The trade system we have now is the best system for a game like this. |
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I absolutely don't want an Auction House, I hope this helps.
Market control is already bad, the more you facilitate that, the worse is gonna get for the real players. |
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" That assumes the person checks their messages. That they bother to reply. And what you say does nothing about things like RMT companies and others putting up items they have no intent to sell at low prices to sucker people into thinking that is the market rate so they can then buy up those cheap ones to re-sell at a higher price. Short of it, the messaging thing you talk of is harder than recognizing that the current system is badly flawed and not a good implementation... and there are apparently people who cannot see that, so I'm going to say that the messaging, scheduling appointments, and so on is too hard ;) |
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