Is the CRAH a good or bad idea? What would you predict would happen to the auction economy? Does the notion excite or horrify you? Would a CRAH we good or bad for WoW?
This post is part of the November Edition of Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival
So it has been mentioned that with all these recent changes
that a Cross Realm Auction House is not beyond the realm of possibilities in
the future. Now I am coming from a selling place, I’m no amazing Gold Goblin
mere silvers away from his 1 million gold target but I still like to play the
AH I just measure things in terms of being able to pay for my professions and
save a little to invest.
I really can’t see how a perhaps Battlegroup wide Auction
House is going to be good for those of us who like to play the markets. You
have to think of it in the ways that you or the average goblin might try the
AH. So say you’re a jewelcrafter and let’s leave the other profession blank for
this example and you want to do some crafting. Let us say rings so you go to
the AH looking for ore, good news it is dirt cheap but then when you check the
prices of the rings you want to make they work out less than the cost of the
mats.
Why you ask because you are now dealing with 4 times the amount
of competition being fuelled by god knows how many times more bots from the
various servers flooding the ore market. Now imagine this across all the
professions as very few have gold making possibilities not directly linked to
the raw materials. You could maybe argue Inscription and DMF cards because of
both the fair only being 1 week per month and the cards being limited by source
materials with a 1 a day cooldown but that market is fairly limited and will be
limited further as we are currently in a DMF.
This stuff of course is not necessarily game breaking for
all but for those who like the AH the effect would be quite noticeable. I think
the more important thing to consider is the reason behind things like the
discussion of a Cross Realm Auction House and the establishment of the Cross
Realm Zones. These are all just Blizzard branded plasters covering the
festering wounds of dead and dying servers (now that’s some imagery for you).
I’ve been on one of those abandoned servers (Blizzard liked
to call them Recommended) and I know how much of a nightmare they can be. The
server that I was on wasn’t always bad but it slowly went down as top 10 guild
after top 10 guild server transferred away. Yes they are the elite but where
they go others follow and soon two of the guilds I was in which were nowhere
near the top decided to move on as well.
This all took time 5 level 85s worth of time, so when I
decided to move to follow a friend and her guild I had to start over from
scratch. Which is the other part of this with all this Cross Realm talk
Blizzard can continue to double charge people to move server and faction just
because they can’t properly deal with the fact that they need to consolidate
servers.
This issue goes all the way back to when LFG and BGs went from
just your realm to your Battlegroup. Unfortunately for me it seems that
Blizzard has gone so far down this road that they are really not going to turn
around now so perhaps goblins everywhere should be prepared to deal with a
Cross Realm Auction House.
I can't really publish this without pointing out that Cold talked about this when the initial talk began during the Cross Realm Zones discussion.
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