You understand that by limiting actions and making this a frustrating experience for вЂgoblinsвЂ™ - a perfectly valid area of the game to focus on, just as valid as raiding, doing dungeons, questing, etc - that you hurt other players of the game, yes? Like the farmers. Just take advantage of what theyвЂ™re doing to your benefit :)'Д«ut now you are changing the entire system to hinder people who are either in multiple markets within the AH or do transmogs? ItвЂ™s no different than any other WoW pvp. When I brought up someone on my server intentionally was crashing markets to drive me out as competition, something they admitted in whispers they were going to do, because they did not want to compete with anyone else, this is the response I got from one of your GMs: You understand that by limiting the amount of actions people can take for the AH per minute, making it so people who primarily focus on AH as their gameplay experience, you are actually hurting the economy? If the current settings are too strict, weвЂ™ll want to relax these measures. We very much welcome feedback on AH activities are hitting the throttle. The current tuning values are a starting point for this. The new system will, however, throttle players who are using addons to run rapid queries to scan the AH for specific goods, or buy and relist huge quantities of items.

It should be essentially impossible to encounter the new limits for most players. The system is tuned so that is should never affect players using the AH typically: buying consumables, listing gathered or crafted goods for sale, searching for specific items you want to purchase, etc. With this hotfix, weвЂ™ve implemented a new system that effectively gives each player a вЂњbudgetвЂќ of AH actions per minute, and only kicks in once that budget has been exceeded. Neither of these things is good for the game as a whole. The players who generate all of the AH traffic are using addon-driven automation to gain a competitive economic advantage over other players, in addition to the increasing strain on the game service.

Through our continuing work to address service issues as they crop up, as well as our constant efforts to find gameplay issues and fix them, weвЂ™ve observed that a small minority of all players generate the majority of Auction House traffic. The hotfix is intended to both address service issues, as well as address an imbalance between the vast majority of players and a very small minority. The performance reported above is expected and intended, following a hotfix that went into effect a few hours ago.

Less than a second on US-Shattered Hands before 8.3.

10 seconds on US-Shattered Hands before today.

mail Uncanny armor - 12 auctions total) took: To put some numbers to this, searching for a very small set of items (i.e. While the AH has been much slower on higher-pop servers since 8.3, this new issue seems to be affecting all servers equally in my testing and from what IвЂ™ve heard from others. Reloading, relogging, or waiting a few minutes seems to reset this throttling (to some degree), but otherwise the throttling doesnвЂ™t seem to ever reset on its own. Then, some sort of throttling seems to kick in and they start taking ~4 seconds each. 1592325715511,206ДЄs you can see, the first ~25 calls are nice and speedy at around 300ms each. Each row consists of two values: the timestamp in milliseconds at which the API call was made and the time in milliseconds it took to complete. This data was collected on US-Shattered Hands, which has generally been a very fast auction house as itвЂ™s a lower-pop realm. Each row represents a single C_AuctionHouse.SendSearchQuery API call (all the APIs experience the same issue - this was just the simplest to test). HereвЂ™s a bunch of data which I recorded which demonstrates the issue.

This impacts all auction house functions (searching, canceling, posting, and buying). Starting this morning, auction house interaction with addons (in my case, TSM) has gotten significantly slower after a certain number of queries. EDIT: Sounds like this was intentional, which is extremely disappointing: Auction House Much Slower Today - June 16Д®DIT2: And now Blizzard locked the thread.Д®DIT3: A new post in the general discussion forum: Auction house changes, yay or nah?

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