Originally Posted by Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Over the last few days, we've seen a lot of requests from players for us to make improvements to the auction house. We've also seen questions regarding what, if any, changes are being made to the AH in 1.0.4. While we've already talked about many of the updates we have planned, we know some players may have missed those discussions. So, rather than make you wait for the patch notes, we've put together a list of everything that's changing in 1.0.4 for you below.
Take a look:
General Improvements:
Search Improvements:
UI Improvements:
In addition to these improvements, we're also fixing several bugs with the auction house UI and functionality (many of which you reported on these forums).
Bug Fixes:
Take a look:
General Improvements:
- Players can now cancel their auctions at any point so long they do not have any active bids on them (it will still take five minutes for a listed auction to become searchable, however).
- We've increased the maximum stack size of gold per listing from 100,000 to 1,000,000. The current minimum listing price will remain the same per stack.
- We've added description text to several error messages. We've also improved several existing descriptions so that they more clearly describe why you've encountered an error.
Search Improvements:
- We're upping the allowed number of "Preferred Stats" per search from 3 to 6.
- We're upping the number of digits you can enter in the "Min Value" field for equipment searches from 3 to 5 (i.e. you can now search for values > 999).
- We've replaced “Minimum Damage” with “Average Damage” as a searchable stat, which can be calculated as follows: (Min Damage + Max Damage) / 2. So, for example, searching for an Average Damage of 12 will find an item with 10-14 damage, 12 Minimum damage, or 24 Maximum damage.
- Stat increases which come from slotted gems will no longer be factored in when searching for equipment. Instead, your search criteria will only take into account the base stat values for an item.
- Armor, DPS, Buyout, and Time Left columns are now sortable columns in the Search tab.
UI Improvements:
- The Auctions tab and Completed tab will now refresh whenever one of your items has been purchased.
- Whenever an auction expires or is cancelled, the listing price of that item will now display in the Completed tab.
- Tooltips have been added for items in the Completed tab (which means you'll be able to see the stats of the items you've purchased or sold, as well as items which failed to sell or were cancelled).
- Tooltips have been added for commodities.
- Item Compare tooltips have been added to the Recommended Items page.
In addition to these improvements, we're also fixing several bugs with the auction house UI and functionality (many of which you reported on these forums).
Bug Fixes:
- Auction house filters are no longer case-sensitive.
- Players can now search for stats on Legendary items! Yay!
- The Recommended Items page will now display quivers for demon hunters even if you have a two-handed ranged weapon equipped.
- Witch doctor's Corpse Spider bonus is now listed when searching for mojos.
- And, last but not least, we've fixed several issues with affixes not displaying correctly or being unavailable for equipment searches:
- "Attack Speed" is now a searchable affix for quivers
- Items with the "Level Requirement Reduced" affix will now properly appear in search results when specifying the level range
- Searches will now properly filter results according to the set Minimum and Maximum values for"Life per Spirit Spent"
These two things are what should have been included in the release, but at least they will be in the next patch.
I have to say, Blizzard has exceeded my expectations with this. Bravo!
Why?
It means that the minimum price for 1 million will be 0,25€. You will still be free to try to list it for 2,50€, but it won't sell. Realistically, it will sell for more than the current black market price (due to convenience), but less than 2,50€ per million, because that's simply not what the market values it at.
The minimum price the UI will allow will be 0,25 per million. Of course you will not see anyone selling gold for 0,25 per million - it's worth more than that. If anyone listed any that cheaply it would be instantly bought out and relisted.
Google for the prices of black market gold. Don't actually click through to the sites unless your browser is not IE, and is up-to-date with all security patches, you'll be able to see some prices from the google summary. Expect the actual price of gold in the RMAH to be higher than that. People will pay more for convenience and to be legit, but not enough people are willing to pay as much as 2,50 per million for convenience.
Gold will not drastically lose value. Gold has already drastically lost value, but the market is being distorted because the RMAH currently does not allow you to buy and sell gold for it's current actual value. Will GAH prices skyrocket? Possibly. You may actually see a lot more great items on the GAH, once it is possible to confidently cash out after a GAH sale, and that may push down prices of the good items.
We've increased the maximum stack size of gold per listing from 100,000 to 1,000,000. The current minimum listing price will remain the same per stack.
Not $2.50 for 1 million. "The current minimum listing price" (25c) "will remain the same per stack" (stacks of 1 million now permitted). Hence, 25c per million floor price.
Before the rich campers wouldn't want to take the effort to go that deep, and the poor folks had to to try and find a deal they can afford, now the rich will get richer.