Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
If lore is so important (I don't feel it yet that way, but can imagine many do) then I'm pretty sure the bright story writers can fix that. But the way I see it is that lore shouldn't prevent what is an ingame issue for many players to be fixed.

A solution could be for example that every item listed on a faction's AH is also listed on the neutral AH, but with a 15% increased cost for the buyer, so the seller isn't affected. Even more, the seller could have the choice to list it there or not (nothing changes for him, he would take the same cut, he just increases his possible buyers). This is just a random idea, I'm pretty sure that a better solution can be worked out. Lore workaround could be that the goblins made a deal with both factions (my imagination & lore knowledge is crap).

Not claiming that I've checked each realms AH, but the ones I did look more or less the same to what I described in the OP. Now the situation is such that if a horde player wants to level alchemy besides JC, he often can't buy the mats off the AH to proceed, whereas an alliance can easily do it. So he has to level herbalism and gather the stuff himself, then delete it and go JC. I don't think that this is a good thing in times where everything gets easier/more accessible to the player. Determined by the faction you chose upon creating an account, and no info that helps you decide.

I play the AH on both factions on two different servers every week or so. don't see a need to bring everything together but rather a reduction in the AH cost to auction and a flat rate to use both faction and neutral AH's would be nice. However, most of your original issue was with the availability of higher tier items to factions that are under geared cuase they don't have good raiding guilds, number etc. I was supprise that you didn't make a remark about faction neutral high end craftable gear but that you went back to the universal AH idea. As a boxer / AH player, gold is usually never a problem for me. Gear, acceptance with a nonboxer guild, and pvp options are though. universal ah doesn't get you any of this. I had never heard of the idea of purchasing a raid drop loot from the raid until I came to KilJaeden pronounced in tradechat cause the old server just sucked at that

to the cross realm ah ppl, you really want the gold farmers to be able to bring down your prices on all realm servers instead of the one they actually farmed to gold on? though prices on high end items will most likely skyrocket since there is a much larger pool of purchasers....

I see your point though about supplies not being available to level professions. This is a point that I love taking advantage of on the AH and overchange GREATLY to max my income on those items. golden pearl anyone??? Turtle meat??? lobster meat???? etc etc. I am not at the character limit for my accounts or for the Kiljaeden realm either so I always use it as an excuse to lvl a team in that area that drops the item, though it takes longer to lvl a profession this way.

remember, bliz isn't in business to have you spend less time ingame but is always looking for ways to bring you back in. if it doesn't increase your time needed to game play, they probably aren't interested in implementing the change...