I hope they don't repeat the same stupid useless feature of World of Warcraft's auction house: stacks.
Why stacks are completely pointless: - People list dozens if not hundreds of 1-item listings in order to bury others who sell by stacks. - Sorting by price means you're sorting by stack price, which is pointless. Sorting by price should be based on the price per unit. - Selling items should never "stack". You have 56 items for sale, that's all there is to it. - If I want to only buy 8 units and you've got the l
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @10:14AM (#39571119)
Actually, the problem with stacks was the crappy default WOW UI that made it easy for people to scam and bury others. When I still played WOW I used a custom addon for it and the annoyance and trepidation regarding getting boned went away very fast.
Auction House (Score:3)
I hope they don't repeat the same stupid useless feature of World of Warcraft's auction house: stacks.
Why stacks are completely pointless:
- People list dozens if not hundreds of 1-item listings in order to bury others who sell by stacks.
- Sorting by price means you're sorting by stack price, which is pointless. Sorting by price should be based on the price per unit.
- Selling items should never "stack". You have 56 items for sale, that's all there is to it.
- If I want to only buy 8 units and you've got the l
Re:Auction House (Score:0)
Actually, the problem with stacks was the crappy default WOW UI that made it easy for people to scam and bury others. When I still played WOW I used a custom addon for it and the annoyance and trepidation regarding getting boned went away very fast.