Massive news: Patch 6 Commodities

[sgeos]

But you might use such a system to move wealth from one account to another, and in so doing create the million dollar scrap situation. But of course it would cost a quarter million gold in taxes to do so.

Couldn't you just send it to your other account?

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[Coolhwip]

There's way too many holes in this implementation at the moment and my cynical side suspects this was done on purpose. That would explain the blizzard remark about high margin of profit regarding the RMAH transactions. They are leaving people blind to the actual bid and ask orders on purpose, thus the natural direction of pricing will be continually up.

There is also a great risk of arbitrage since we have 2 parallel markets (being able to buy loads of crafting materials at the gold auction house then selling them at a profit at the RMAH). What we need is a realtime bid and ask order tracker with market depth for both the gold and real money auction houses, anything short of that would fail to provide enough protection to buyers and sellers since they'd be blind to any market manipulation attempts.

Give me something like a SierraCharts realtime plug-in/feed and I'll be happy:

[stonerdoom]

i know less than nothing about this stock market stuff, but wouldnt these mechanics (real time market stats) be very complicated to implement simply as a "feature" in an already complex game?

wouldnt day trading be fairly easy if they actually did make it though? I mean wouldnt the trends (such as time of day) be pretty easy to play even for a noob such as myself?

if they do this for scraps would that in effect be the barometer/market for gold and by osmosis set the table for the rest of the item values?

Im just trying to learn from you guys...