You end your playing session and have a bunch of items you feel you want to sell. You open your trading post and put up a Sword.
Another player logs on and does a search for swords and finds 15000 other swords. He puts an offer on the "best" ones he sees.
Say the top 100 all get offers, well the bottom 14900 log on the next day and have no offers.
The top 100 log on and get litterally thousands of offers because they had "BIS" or really good stuff and can only really accept one.
Thousands of players who would have traded something with the AH, now basically trade nothing and get frustrated or desperate. You can tweak the system, but every change that makes it better likely just makes it closer to being what the AH currently is... Anything you take away from it will just make it feel worst.
The AH and RMAH aren't perfect. Like many have been eager to point out, over time, it has slowly eroded the length of the game. Although Blizzard has put in mechanics to try and smooth that out a little, they obviously will need to do more, but at this point the big swings are likely only going to come from expansions. The RMAH and the AH is still something you opt in. I know some people take great pride in considering that they are the best at something, but it is still just a game, you choose what shortcuts you want to use.
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You end your playing session and have a bunch of items you feel you want to sell. You open your trading post and put up a Sword.
Another player logs on and does a search for swords and finds 15000 other swords. He puts an offer on the "best" ones he sees.
Say the top 100 all get offers, well the bottom 14900 log on the next day and have no offers.
The top 100 log on and get litterally thousands of offers because they had "BIS" or really good stuff and can only really accept one.
Thousands of players who would have traded something with the AH, now basically trade nothing and get frustrated or desperate. You can tweak the system, but every change that makes it better likely just makes it closer to being what the AH currently is... Anything you take away from it will just make it feel worst.
The AH and RMAH aren't perfect. Like many have been eager to point out, over time, it has slowly eroded the length of the game. Although Blizzard has put in mechanics to try and smooth that out a little, they obviously will need to do more, but at this point the big swings are likely only going to come from expansions. The RMAH and the AH is still something you opt in. I know some people take great pride in considering that they are the best at something, but it is still just a game, you choose what shortcuts you want to use.
So ya... Just please no.