Auction House Currently Broken
Posted 27 May 2012 by FluxSeveral fans have reported that the Gold Auction House is broken this evening. On the Battle.net forums there’s a seven page thread full of, “I bought and it said transaction completed but now I have no gold or item!” fans freaking out.
Hopefully this is just a hiccup in the system and the gold spent and items bought will match up after someone gives the hamster cage a kick, over B.net way. But you might not want to use the GAH for a while, until we get word from Bliz that things are back to normal.
While we’re on the subject, here’s a quick weekend vote on your Diablo III Auction House experience to date. Are you guys using it? Liking it? Loving it? Avoiding it as a plague that ruins the game experience by injecting too-cheap and too-powerful items and breaking the designed difficulty progression?
Have you used the Gold Auction House so far?
- 1) Yes, I'm constantly buying and selling. (53%, 2,449 Votes)
- 2) Yes, but just a little bit. (30%, 1,357 Votes)
- 4) No and I wish there was no GAH or RMAH in D3. (10%, 457 Votes)
- 3) Not yet, but I plan to. (7%, 322 Votes)
Total Voters: 4,584
Loading ...Update: Some useful infos in the comments. Several people point out that an hour or few downtime on the AH isn’t uncommon, and that it just hits bubbles of slow now and then and things eventually catch up. JamesL points to a quoted Bliz tech support comment on AH delivery times.
Items can take up to 48 hours for delivery. Proceeds from auctions may take up to 5 days for delivery in certain circumstances. If you have not received your item or money after five days have passed, please reply to this ticket for assistance. If you wish to speak with a representative via phone, our contact information can be found here.
And chriscowart says that sometimes you can speed up the refresh by executing another transaction. He suggests posting something at an absurdly high price, then cancelling the auction so as to refresh your completed auctions tab.
I find anything but weapons tend to be overpriced, so I’ve only bought weapons from the AH so far and made some good deals on that. But when I find good stuff I don’t need myself I always put it on the AH.
Rings seem to be very very expensive for some reason, whereas amulets not so much. I guess because everyone needs 2 rings but only 1 amulet? Other item types seem about average, although Wizard off-hands seems to be particularly cheap compared to the average weapon prices.
Also here’s a trick for anyone level 45+: search for items with “reduced level requirement”. These items tend to be less favoured by people who are the correct level, and don’t otherwise show up in your search result (eg level 60 item with -5 levels will not show up if you search for level 55 items), resulting in them being under-priced for their specs. I’ve gotten some very nice wands off there. I even saw a wand with a massive -12 levels, taking it to 48, with 720 DPS! Asking price on that was 1.2 million, and I think definitely worth it for twinking.
Ooh thanks for the hint. I guess we should look at ones with out that mod then the ones with it.
Something similar happened a few days ago, every auction eventually went through, it just took a few hours. I think at the time Bashiok tweeted something about metering auctions to provide stability while they were fixing some stuff. Considering the Auction House has constantly been under work since launch, this doesn’t seem to be a big deal to me. Everyone’s items will be given to them. It’s just a temporary annoyance.
But man, I can sure see why they keep delaying the RMAH. When real money is involved and this stuff happens, people are going to be flying off the wall.
AH is only way to progress in this game – everything prepared for RMAH, you want progress further – pay.
Downvote for trollishness.
The AH is the only way to improve your gear without playing and getting the drops yourself. People are “depending” on the AH now because they want to take shortcuts and get as far as they can as quick as they can. You can get there on your own, or by playing co-op games with your friends and trading items with them (where I’ve gotten all but 1 of my items, and I’m in act2 inferno).
I supose you really dont get it. If you are melee you cant progress to Act II (inferno) becouse there is no gear in ACT I for it. You need gear from ACT III/IV to stand a chance. Gear from ACT I it’s just “joke” it’s 95% hell quality – i really understand reason – it’s artifical way to increase longevity of game – ok i get it – still it’s just wrong design especially when ranged classes just farm stuff in ACT III/IV.
Or maybe you just need to be more patient? The game’s been out a couple weeks, and you expect to be able to steamroll through the difficulty the developers said was going to be impossible for a large portion of those playing the game?
Or maybe you could farm for drops and slowly build up your gear with each new awesome piece you find. You know, the way they intended you to.
I had the problem with the AH, rather annoying.
I ended up buying 3 rings off it because my first one didn’t show up. Even so I got them all at cheap prices and will be able to replace my 2 current rings and then re-list the spare.
Have you used the gold auction house so far?
Yes, and I wish there was no GAH or RMAH in D3.
Ditto.
I’m on the opposite side of the fence on this. I LOVE the auction house, and not so much for progressing in my game, but moreso because I love to trade. So far, I’ve made millions and executed over 2000 trades. It’s a game in a game!
Then again, I may be a bit biased… I ran vendors in Ultima Online, and trade stock in real life.
Regardless, there are plenty of folks that really enjoy it. If you want to progress on your own without auction housing, it will take a lot longer, but the victories and spoils will be much, much sweeter.
Flux tends to write poll answers that deal with more than one issue at a time. Is it an opinion poll about the AH, or is it a statistics poll about AH usage? Pick one and stick with it.
The big problem is that the last 3 nights or so commodities trading has been off-line…
By the way, when I got on tonight the auction house was off-line completely… so maybe related to missing auctions???
No wonder they keep delaying the real money auction house. The AH is down once a day now.
The auction house made my progression from levels 30ish – 60 much easier. It was disappointing to have nothing but blue items drop from every boss fight in NM and hell. Once I hit level 60 though, the neph valor buff changes everything and I finally get rares from bosses again.
Yeah there’s a really sucky dead zone between your first normal completion and getting to 60.
I would love to see the stats on the amount of gold blizzard has so far taken out of the game through the GAH.
I’d bet between 1/3rd and 1/2 of a trillion
I wish the AH was actually user friendly. It’s not. It’s like they developed it during lunch breaks.
Well, since NOTHING in the game fetches a decent price (armour and wands could be sold for tens of thousands in D2), the AH is the easiest way to pay for NPC upgrades.
I’ve sold about 300K, and bought less than 100K of items that I was having trouble upgrading.