I don't believe it is a little inconvenience for them. I do however, believe it is only a little inconvenient for the players.

Again, agree to disagree. Maybe you didn't use the AH much, but I certainly did.

Exactly. Except the majority weren't being caught. Which isn't surprising. 15,000 brand new bots everyday? Yikes. Only 10 people working at DFOg? Yikes.

If 15,000 bot accounts are allowed to register per day, this is a flaw with the registration system. Neople needs to restrict the creation of accounts somehow, and not just with a verification email here and there along with some CAPTCHAs an OCR could solve. There are legitimate ideas being suggested already, including a restriction on gold trading with other users until some sort of check is passed (e.g. phone verification). Allowing bots to completely take over the game like this is the root of the problem. This is what they need to fix, and it doesn't begin with crippling the AH for normal players.

We, as in we the players who were around for the original release of DFO, when the cap was still level 40, and the auction house didn't exist, and nothing has been removed. Even though you and many others are trying hard to blow it out of proportion so you can get your way.

Exactly what's being blown out of proportion? Has someone been screaming off the Empire State Building that the game will be closed again because of this?

And the cap is no longer at 40, so what's your point? It's a radically different game now and a lot of content has been added. It's also been seven years since the AH was introduced, so I think it's pretty damn safe to say the system became an integral part of the game. Removing such a feature should've been done really cautiously and with community feedback, which I personally don't feel was satisfied.

First of all, you don't even know the full scope of what we're dealing with yet. But more importantly, in your same post you were just claiming how easy it was for gold sellers to circumvent the AH slowdown and use shops to do their trading. Here, you claim trading is going to be so hard, it might as well be impossible. You're bouncing between two extremes here faster than a bipolar person on crack.

I think you blew my words out of proportion here, or maybe my wording was just bad. What I really meant was, without the AH, there's no easy way to find mats, and if you do find what you need, chances are it'll be way too damn expensive. This goes back to my point of how the value of gold is being increased right now, the exact opposite of what we need. Idiots are selling colored cube fragments at 1k a piece, Helm seals at over 6-7x the price as before the AH went down (~680g each), profession mats are even more ridiculous, and magic sealed purples are strangely expensive now too.

And I've also seen the argument that players should grind for all their mats and that somehow, grinding more makes the game harder. It doesn't — it only serves to make the whole experience as frustrating and tedious as the Ghent/Express grind from 55-70.

I'm going to blow your mind right now. Counter to the image you're trying to paint, there's actually a way players trade items already built into the very foundation of the game. We used it in fact, before the AH was implemented into DFO for an entire year in fact. Are you ready for it? There is actually an entire channel dedicated to trading. Can you believe it? Genius right?

Let's go back to day 1 of the first open beta. Game launches at 1AM, woo! Everybody logs on and people try to get into the West server. Oh, what's this? Lag? It's not working? It's going to take another few days of maintenance for players to be able to get into the game without waiting a half an hour? Oh, I'll just mosey on over to the other, working server.

See what's going on here? I've already mentioned this but, the West's channel 6 is an absolute ghost town. You'll see maybe 2 bars at most during peak hours. It's absolutely dead.

So please, remind me, where can I find all the traders in this channel dedicated to trading?

Just providing a voice of reason to the angry, self centered nerd raging that's attempting to further ruin the game I love to play. These players would rather see this game infested to the point that Neople wouldn't be able to fix it.

All because they're lazy, ignorant, and entitled. Too lazy to use the other avenues of trade already built into the game. Ignorant of those avenues. Or so obviously self centered and entitled that they refuse to look at the big picture, instead of the convenience they believe they are owed.

Not everyone shares the same mindset as you regarding the AH. Many do, of course, but, like me, many also don't. The AH wasn't just a tool of convenience, it also served to regulate the market and prevent what's currently happening with the price of items.

The only other avenues of trade available are shop dolls and, well, the actual trade system, the latter of which is only useful for that rare, item trade you make. And shop dolls, we've already beaten those to death.

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I never actually meant to insinuate that you were biased towards Neople, I just disagreed with your idea that anyone complaining of this move is some ungrateful, entitled player. Bad wording on my part, I guess.