29-10-2015, 08:33 PM
A reason why there's a listing fee exist is also to remove the chance that a price fight take place on a ridiculous scale.
For example, seeing some kind of fighting over prices where an item price is getting dropped by 50 or even 1 every 2-3 minutes so that it's "cheaper" than another of the same item. By having the listing fee, this kind of situation is easier to controls and people who put item in the auction house have to think twice before adding an item or updating its existing price.
Imagine the amount of changes in the website server if a fight on an item that is sold 1.5M and each drop its price by 25 or even 100 every couple of min. Not only would it make things hard to follow (for anyone who buys), but it would also be some kind of problem if someone where to change the price of an item too often. With a simple program, you could make it so that the price of an item switch every 20-30 seconds between an overpriced amount and a normal price and anyone who buy it when it's show the normal price could end up paying the overpriced amount as the AH doesn't update in real-time whenever a price is changed.
The listing fee helps against those 2 kind of situations.
For example, seeing some kind of fighting over prices where an item price is getting dropped by 50 or even 1 every 2-3 minutes so that it's "cheaper" than another of the same item. By having the listing fee, this kind of situation is easier to controls and people who put item in the auction house have to think twice before adding an item or updating its existing price.
Imagine the amount of changes in the website server if a fight on an item that is sold 1.5M and each drop its price by 25 or even 100 every couple of min. Not only would it make things hard to follow (for anyone who buys), but it would also be some kind of problem if someone where to change the price of an item too often. With a simple program, you could make it so that the price of an item switch every 20-30 seconds between an overpriced amount and a normal price and anyone who buy it when it's show the normal price could end up paying the overpriced amount as the AH doesn't update in real-time whenever a price is changed.
The listing fee helps against those 2 kind of situations.