Well I'm sitting here watching/listening to a recording of the development panel Q&A session and the subject of Auction Houses came up. While they didn't say anything specific regarding it, and went so far as to say they were not planning anything AH-esque an idea struck me that could work.
They mentioned that they wanted to preserve some of the elements of trading in D2, but understood that it wasn't the greatest experience and wanted to make it a bit more player-friendly.
That said, why not an implementation of some sort of "bartering house".
More specifically I had this sort of system in mind:
Player A places item X on the Barter House for trade. A listing is created with the item and the seller's name. Now. During the creation process of listing an item, there would be a dialog box detailing what the seller has in mind for a fair trade.
Player B is searching for items and stumbles upon item X and is happy to find exactly what he is looking for. Upon clicking on the listing, the information panel showing the details of the listing pops up. In addition to this, there are 2 distinct boxes. One is an inventory-looking window where you can show items for trade. The other would be a currency offer should the player be looking for money.
When Player B makes his offer by placing some of his valuables he's found in the Offer window and presses the submit button, the system would send the offer to the seller who can then accept it or decline it.
One of the major flaws of this system that I personally see is that it would require something like a mail system which may not be in line with Blizzard's design vision for Diablo 3.
The pros are that it:
-Offers the spirit of "WUG, WUW, Show"
-Reduces spam and many of the negative aspects of trading in D2
-Depending on implementation can be a very quick easy efficient way to go about your mercantile desires within the game itself.
Please offer any thoughts, suggestions or criticism!
umm it's a nifty idea but what I thought was that for battle.net all the rooms you make are divided into categories such as dueling questing and trading thus just no need for an bartering house but you're idea is still nifty but anything close to an AH is too much WoW for me.
I really like the personality of trading. I hate the Auction House in WoW. It ruins entire server economies. Keep trading between people, just increase functionality of games specficially meant for trade, like Dr. Gore mentioned.
Gold in Diablo 3, at least so far, has no greater purpose than it did in D2.
Making an auction house to accept Items for Item trade would be rather insane. Unless there was some sort of system saying you wanted to trade this item for an item with X stats, but even then its being really to specific and just would not work out well IMHO.
The best way to trade would be to NOT get in game. Instead use the Battle.net chat interface. Then you open a trade window with someone in the chat, pick your character and select the item you want to trade. This would be the easiest and most efficient way of doing it. Granted the trade channel would be spammed to hell, but it would work none the less and would prevent the creation of games simply for an item trade.
Spamming d2 channels for SoJs and charrms was half the fucking reward of the game. Making trade games and attacking people with what lewt you had was part of the charm of the game.
If you make it robotic like an auction house, you'll make the game robotic, so if you like shitty games with shitty players, enjoy the results of an auction house.
They mentioned that they wanted to preserve some of the elements of trading in D2, but understood that it wasn't the greatest experience and wanted to make it a bit more player-friendly.
That said, why not an implementation of some sort of "bartering house".
More specifically I had this sort of system in mind:
Player A places item X on the Barter House for trade. A listing is created with the item and the seller's name. Now. During the creation process of listing an item, there would be a dialog box detailing what the seller has in mind for a fair trade.
Player B is searching for items and stumbles upon item X and is happy to find exactly what he is looking for. Upon clicking on the listing, the information panel showing the details of the listing pops up. In addition to this, there are 2 distinct boxes. One is an inventory-looking window where you can show items for trade. The other would be a currency offer should the player be looking for money.
When Player B makes his offer by placing some of his valuables he's found in the Offer window and presses the submit button, the system would send the offer to the seller who can then accept it or decline it.
One of the major flaws of this system that I personally see is that it would require something like a mail system which may not be in line with Blizzard's design vision for Diablo 3.
The pros are that it:
-Offers the spirit of "WUG, WUW, Show"
-Reduces spam and many of the negative aspects of trading in D2
-Depending on implementation can be a very quick easy efficient way to go about your mercantile desires within the game itself.
Please offer any thoughts, suggestions or criticism!
Gold in Diablo 3, at least so far, has no greater purpose than it did in D2.
Making an auction house to accept Items for Item trade would be rather insane. Unless there was some sort of system saying you wanted to trade this item for an item with X stats, but even then its being really to specific and just would not work out well IMHO.
The best way to trade would be to NOT get in game. Instead use the Battle.net chat interface. Then you open a trade window with someone in the chat, pick your character and select the item you want to trade. This would be the easiest and most efficient way of doing it. Granted the trade channel would be spammed to hell, but it would work none the less and would prevent the creation of games simply for an item trade.
If you make it robotic like an auction house, you'll make the game robotic, so if you like shitty games with shitty players, enjoy the results of an auction house.
I know real players like me will be upset.
Plus the Trade/duel rooms were just fun rofl