Another great Classic experience

[Lunababy]

An automated auction would have the same effect. You're thinking purely of buy-it-now with a set price.

ie; this game would be much better if it had a WoW AH clone.

[Blitzers]

Originally Posted by Lunababy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

An automated auction would have the same effect. You're thinking purely of buy-it-now with a set price.

ie; this game would be much better if it had a WoW AH clone.

The point of this is that a bazaar/auction house removes an aspect of the game that is enjoyable and requires effort to achieve.

2 days ago I bought a festering cloak in EC for 75p because I was impatient and just wanted something other than cloth for my back. I later saw someone selling a festering cloak for 15p. Feeling bitter about just wasting 60p, I ran over to Orc 2 and gave away my festering cloak and pursued other cloak options. The free market does have its pitfalls but when u run in to them u have no one to blame but urself.

[Lictor]

Originally Posted by Blitzers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The point of this is that a bazaar/auction house removes an aspect of the game that is enjoyable and requires effort to achieve.

2 days ago I bought a festering cloak in EC for 75p because I was impatient and just wanted something other than cloth for my back. I later saw someone selling a festering cloak for 15p. Feeling bitter about just wasting 60p, I ran over to Orc 2 and gave away my festering cloak and pursued other cloak options. The free market does have its pitfalls but when u run in to them u have no one to blame but urself.

How is that any diff than checking bazaar vendors until you find the first usable cloak not cloth and buy it on sight bc you were impatient that day. Next day you see a vendor while looking for some other armor selling that same cloak for 10pp?

[Blitzers]

Originally Posted by Lictor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How is that any diff than checking bazaar vendors until you find the first usable cloak not cloth and buy it on sight bc you were impatient that day. Next day you see a vendor while looking for some other armor selling that same cloak for 10pp?

It's alot different for 1, that noob at Orc camp would have never got a free cloak, also I more then likely would have never bought a festering cloak in the 1st place being that everyone's bank junk would be listed at the bazaar I would have bought something better or equivalent for probably less play, but most importantly the experience of negotiating the deal and the legwork involved in the transactions would never existed, which is the most valuable part of the deal to me, the interaction. It's not about the "end result" for me, it's about the overall experience that makes it enjoyable and valuable. With the bazaar, The Ends do not always Justify the Means.