It seems to me, that with all the talk lately about the current unreliability of the AH that this is a progressing problem. As more players turn to the AH in a bid to off-load their inventory - the original traffic that the AH was intended to deal with, must have been surpassed by now. So I was thinking if the AH went offline and some time was spent on it to make it a premium feature within in the game so as to ensure reliability, effective notifications, proper average sale calculations,more filters . advanced search, and when it returned it would be a pay to use feature this could help facilitate a dedicated team required to ensure this aspect of the game is always working optimally.

There are three obvious advantages for a Pay to Use AH:
(1) Players who are having to pay for a feature will be more motivated into pricing their items so as to GET a sale and not waiting on the off chance they may be able to rob someone blind of coins. (Better Prices)
(2) The items used to clutter the AH and add to the ever increasing pages will be decreased almost immediately. Making the AH a real place to pick up deals and hassle free trading (think eBay ). (Less Clutter of Items)
(3) Dedicated support and maintenance team working on the AH ( Reliability of Service)

An objection to this idea could be:, what about the players who are penalised by not having the ability to pay for an in- game feature - however, we survived long enough without an AH and players are still able to effectively trade within the game.

Anyway what do you think....Pay or Not to Pay. ?????

Edit to add in case you don't read my later posts: -.. I am not talking about the commissions which are currently in place and are paid only after a sale has been made but instead of those, a flat rate cost for both the buyer and seller. Thereby increasing the revenue the AH generates to provide for the maintenance of the premium feature.

we already do.. a percentage of the sale

I would not pay to use the AH. no matter how reliable it is

Aroejusu Tomasu (185771478) wrote:I would not pay to use the AH. no matter how reliable it is

Yup.

I would just go back to events, no prob.
Pay or no pay, doesn't bother me.

I would happily pay

sometimes yes sometimes no sometimes maybe

I'm goods. I even think the 10% is outrageous, imagine the premium option. All good, as said by my buddie Wonkah, there are plenty of events.

grammak (10650016) wrote:we already do.. a percentage of the sale

No, I mean a flat out cost from the start. Commissions are only effective if sales are actually made. I'm guessing there are a ton more items posted than sales made. However the number of players using the AH are all being affected whether they have sold their item or not.

Never

We do pay 10% and im not gonna pay to use it! No!

No...we have them a cut as it is...Just how much is BV going to take. We have no way to make coins now except sell our stuff. The hot dogs don't work. They shut down the ability to do the 8 person coin run. We don't have our SD boxes anymore and I had some that I should have been able to open. Those were mine. Not BV! This whole greed thing is now with BV maybe even more so than Zynga!

Other than the fee, NO.

No.

I already pay 10-20% and my yocash isn't free so basically I'm paying 10-20% to use a poorly executed service now.... Why would I pay twice it defies logic?

No, I would not pay. I would continue to use our other options, trading, events, etc.

Br3adman (11694762) wrote:I already pay 10-20% and my yocash isn't free so basically I'm paying 10-20% to use a poorly executed service now.... Why would I pay twice it defies logic?

My suggestion is not that players would play twice. The logic comes from all players who use the AH paying for it regardless of whether they sell their item or not as that is only when the commission comes into effect. More players are using the AH than items being sold.

Are you serious ?? Do you not think we pay enough already to play this game ?

grammak (10650016) wrote:we already do.. a percentage of the sale

Werd.

Mya (179243943) wrote:Are you serious ?? Do you not think we pay enough already to play this game ?

Nah... we can neva be paying too much