Woot! More reasons to give money to Blizzard. WoW Auction House from the web!

[EaTCarbS]

/sigh...

[kate]

200 transactions (however they define that) per day, presumably per $3.00 subscription. If you have multiple battle.net accounts you'd need to buy multiple subscriptions to expand the capability.

This seems like it'll be really great for people who want to do a little trading, but not for the AH barons who do thousands of transactions a day.

What I'm excited about will be the inevitable sites that scan every auction house constantly and then export that data for people to use with tools like auctioneer and other stats analysis packages - it should be quite an interesting side of the game.

[kadaan]

It would also be kind of fun to use it to buy gems/enchants in the middle of a raid after you got a new item, and toss down your engy mailbox to retrieve the stuff. Or if you need to change glyphs or something.

You have to be logged out of the game to use it on that character. You also need to be logged out of the AH to log in to WoW with the character. I'm not 100% sure if you can be browing the AH while playing a separate character on the same WoW account though.

The transactions/day limit does seem like it will prevent most abuse, as if you have some automated script to scan/buy/sell it won't run very long before hitting the cap. You also need to have a character that actually shows up on the armory in order to use it (level 10+).

For transferring via Neutral AH, it's not really an issue for boxers since we can list on one account and buyout almost instantly on the second account. Besides, with Neutral AH's in multiple places (BB, Gadgetzan, Everlook... maybe Ratchet?) it's not that easy to check and see if anyone is physically camping them either. I'm not sure if they have throttling to how fast you can perform searches through the web, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

I'm not really sure what kind of advantage this gives anyone. You can have WoW open in the background 24/7, or you can leave WoW closed and check it via a browser/phone. The only 'advantages' I think of would be you can list directly from your bank/mailbox, it saves a few trips from the AH -> mailbox, and you don't have to run to a major city. Most people I know rarely use the AH anyway other than buying gems/enchants.

It's bnet account-wide, so a single $3 fee in addition to 5x subscriptions isn't much at all. You can easily change between characters, servers, and wow accounts. Doesn't require logging out/in and running to a city. I don't see myself using it every day and it's definitely not a replacement for Auctioneer, unless someone writes a web-based Auctioneer frontend to the web AH...

[coglistings]

hmmm, anyone know where they list realms that are participating?

[MiRai]

hmmm, anyone know where they list realms that are participating?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=24915154220&sid=1

[Souca]

It's one of the smallest battlegroups in the Seattle datacenter. I have soem chars on Maiev and it was an almost dead server. My guess is it allows them to test in a smaller enviornment and for a lower hardware upgrade cost when they are still tweaking software and might need to buy more than they would once things are optimized. Rather smart actually. Only downside is if they don't get an accurate picture of what a hectic battlegroup will do to the system, but they'll figure that out eventually

- Souca -

[Blacky_Chan]

Of particular note:

So if anyone can test it out for free, we should be able to see how useful it is.

EDIT: I managed to get the update, will post after I test it out!
EDIT EDIT: Apaprently Frostmourne isn't included in the beta test

Another Frostmourne player =D alli or horde?

[Ualaa]

Buying and selling is one thing.
But can your toon retrieve an item from a mailbox, and relist?
For that matter, can you run something like Quick Auctions or Auctioneer?

[kadaan]

Buying and selling is one thing.
But can your toon retrieve an item from a mailbox, and relist?
For that matter, can you run something like Quick Auctions or Auctioneer?

You can see all the items in your bank/mailbox/inventory, and there's no difference between the three for selling through the web. I tried to dig into the xml on the web, but a lot of it is loaded dynamically so it'll be a lot harder to write scripts to automate buying/selling than it is to simply scrape profiles.

[kate]

Buying and selling is one thing.
But can your toon retrieve an item from a mailbox, and relist?
For that matter, can you run something like Quick Auctions or Auctioneer?

I guarantee that there will be sites that scan the AH for every server, both factions + neutral. I also guarantee that there will be web apps developed to let people do things ala auctionator or any other addon. I can't actually think of a way that, if they open this up to the web, you *wouldn't* see such things pop into existence.

The auction tools we have now are limited by what the in-game addons can do. Remember - out of game addons will be able to use "if...then" logic and take actions, while in-game addons aren't nearly as capable. This should be fun!