Comments on: Building a better auction house http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/ MMOs and game design Wed, 22 May 2013 22:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zoso http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/#comment-71 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:35:45 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-71 I’d've been over sooner, only I was trying to find a way of filtering auction search results to only show me talisman curios and gold dust under a certain price…

I’ve become a convert to the double blind auction system, though I’ve only really used it in City of Heroes (I believe EVE works along similar lines, albeit at a massively more complex and terrifying scale). It introduces different issues of its own, but one of the Pirates of the Burning Sea devs made a really Quite Interesting post about it a while back.

]]> By: nick http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/#comment-69 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:05:30 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-69 Interesting comparison to my post about WAR’s auction house over here:

http://blog.reroller.com/2009/01/24/6-ways-to-improve-wars-auction-house

Funny, looks like we have a couple of overlapping requests there, even though WAR’s auction house isn’t quite as sophisticated as WoW’s. :)

-nick / reroller

]]> By: Melmoth http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/#comment-36 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:09:40 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-36 I imagine Zoso would be here commenting on this as it’s his specialty, but he’s probably stuck in an auction house somewhere. T’ch.

Auction Houses scare me.

]]> By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/#comment-35 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:06:12 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-35 I’m totally intrigued by EVE, it has so many of the things I love about MMOs (and I was a huge fan of Elite, which is an old space trading game). I think the main reason I’ve never been able to get into it is lack of time, and lack of really figuring out how to find a guild/corporation that was on my timezone.

But I love the whole idea of it, and this makes me love it more! :)

]]> By: Ysharros http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/#comment-34 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:29:15 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-34 Buy orders would be utter, utter win. It’s the one thing even games with great (or, okay, at least complex) crafting systems have lacked. Being able to create demand would make a huge difference.

I used to be extremely down on auction houses, because I didn’t really understand the way they work (I don’t mean the obvious way, even I’m not that thick :D ). Since I’ve come back to WoW I’ve been playing the AH a little, with the help of the Auctioneer mod, and while I’m only paddling in the shallows I’m starting to enjoy it a bit more.

For me though, AH enjoyment = buyouts. I detest bidding because I detest standing there doing the bid war. /Yawn!

]]> By: riffraff http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/building-a-better-auction-house/#comment-32 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:21:14 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-32 EVE Online’s auction system has most of these features. I especially like the option to place BUY orders and the record of transactions.

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