132038-auction-house-and-commodities-exchange-temporary-hiatus

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Hi Everyone -
 
In order to prepare for our transition to free-to-play, we are going to be temporarily shutting down our in-game Auction House and Commodities Exchange services. Have no fear, it’s not forever – they’ll be back September 29th with free-to-play.
 
A significant amount of items within WildStar are being reworked with the launch of Free-to-Play, and we need to bring the Auction House and Commodities Exchange down so that all items can have enough time to return to their owners, and prevent any potential issue with the automatic item conversion system.
 
Downtime:  Sunday, September 20th until Tuesday, September 29th
Time of shutdown:  12AM PDT / 3AM EDT / 7AM CDT
Region(s) affected:  All regions
 
FAQ:
Will I be able to interact with the AH/CX at all?No. All interaction with the AH/CX will be removed, and the NPC’s will take a much needed break before F2P (actually, they’ll still be hanging out but they will not be able to be interacted with).
What about server transfers? Will I still be able to transfer if there’s items or bids in the AH, or Buy/Sell Orders on the CX?Server transfers will not be possible for characters that have active Auctions or Orders, and timers for items will not be affected. That being said, our Customer Support team is able to help in some situations, and if you have an issue please contact them.
Will items that are on AH or have Buy/Sell Orders be lost?No, they’ll not be lost, and once the auction expires, characters should receive items back via mail.
How will my characters get their items back?Any item that has not sold will be sent through the in game mail system back to the character.
We're sorry for the inconvenience, but we thank you for your patience and look forward to seeing you on Nexus!	
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			Would have been nice to have a notice of this a little bit earlier :/	
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			You probably should have announced this a bit sooner	
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You're telling us this only moments before it's happening? No offense, but if you would have at least given us a day or 2 so raiders could have stocked up on materials and consumables earlier, we could have prepared for a situation where getting our stuff ready would take an increased amount of difficulty and from what I'm interpreting, the current items on the market will remain on the market, and since the seller can't interact with the npc's, not cancellable and thus not able to be manually sold...
 
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Still I guess a 24h notice shall suffice I guess.
			
				
	Edited September 19, 2015 by Wolvenheart24	
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You're telling us this only moments before it's happening? No offense, but if you would have at least given us a day or 2 so raiders could have stocked up on materials and consumables earlier, we could have prepared for a situation where getting our stuff ready would take an increased amount of difficulty and from what I'm interpreting, the current items on the market will remain on the market, and since the seller can't interact with the npc's, not cancellable and thus not able to be manually sold...
 
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Still I guess a 24h notice shall suffice I guess.
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You're telling us this only moments before it's happening? No offense, but if you would have at least given us a day or 2 so raiders could have stocked up on materials and consumables earlier, we could have prepared for a situation where getting our stuff ready would take an increased amount of difficulty and from what I'm interpreting, the current items on the market will remain on the market, and since the seller can't interact with the npc's, not cancellable and thus not able to be manually sold...
 
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Still I guess a 24h notice shall suffice I guess.
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			I saw this while waiting on the fire bird to come back (while streaming) I had just put stuff on the AH/CX...after reading why I kinda of ok with it. I mean dont get why it needs to be down for 9 days instead of closer to ftp but I get it, just wish you told us much much earlier then this.	
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Carbine PR at it's finest ….getting hard to dig our way out of all this poop you keep dropping on our heads  	
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I saw this while waiting on the fire bird to come back (while streaming) I had just put stuff on the AH/CX...after reading why I kinda of ok with it. I mean dont get why it needs to be down for 9 days instead of closer to ftp but I get it, just wish you told us much much earlier then this.
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			I'm honestly just baffled that something like this would be announced as soon as a day and a half before it's done.  I know there's a lot going on with the lead up to the pre-release and everyone has to be super busy at Carbine's office/studio, but this is just plain silly.  No use complaining since with the given reasoning, it's not like this can be delayed... but guys, you have to do better than this.  The year+ old videos and footage on social media, etc. and then stuff like this? It all adds up. We need this to be a good launch, and pulling stuff like this with a day's notice is not giving the best impression to players that decided to re-join via the box copy promotion for those benefits. This kind of thing spreads by word of mouth really fast.	
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Because it takes 7 days for all the sales to time out.. so, by turning it off now.. they provide ample time for everything to time out, and be returned to sender (and, maybe they're hoping people will grab it out of their mailboxes before the F2P patch hits too).
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NO!
NO!NO!
Have you gone mad or what?You don't do this right before a major patch which is changing almost all essential items for tradeskills and endgame. Do you know what players usually do before a patch? They get ready for it of course. They dump stuff they think it'll be more more worth selling now, they stack what might be useful after patch.
Like, you know, if there were some players left on your game that still enjoyed playing your AH and tradeskills no matter how awful they are, you shut everything off giving no reason of why it couldn't have done in another way. Also, those changings have been planned since the very beginning of CBT couldn't you just announce this earlier?
And what the hell if you close the AH give all items back to players NOW so we can sell them/buy them via chat. This will just lock items like mounts and ability points upgrade out of the game fmaking ppl unable to buy/sell them in any way. So we won't have acces to AH and our items will be locked until their expire.
			
				
	Edited September 19, 2015 by Weer	
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			Is it just me, or does anyone else think this carbine's attempt to "Reset" the economy for F2P launch?	
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This is the first time I see this kind of thing in a MMORPG  :rolleyes:
 
You have a PTR for that.	
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NO!
NO!NO!
Have you gone mad or what?You don't do this right before a major patch which is changing almost all essential items for tradeskills and endgame. Do you know what players usually do before a patch? They get ready for it of course. They dump stuff they think it'll be more more worth selling now, they stack what might be useful after patch.
Like, you know, if there were some players left on your game that still enjoyed playing your AH and tradeskills no matter how awful they are, you shut everything off giving no reason of why it couldn't have done in another way. Also, those changings have been planned since the very beginning of CBT couldn't you just announce this earlier?
And what the hell if you close the AH give all items back to players NOW so we can sell them/buy them via chat. This will just lock items like mounts and ability points upgrade out of the game fmaking ppl unable to buy/sell them in any way. So we won't have acces to AH and our items will be locked until their expire.
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This is the first time I see this kind of thing in a MMORPG  :rolleyes:
 
You have a PTR for that.
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			 :lol: I was wondering how they were going to prevent Epochos gear sales from going through the roof. Now I know.	
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			Yknow, while they definitely could have given more warning...it's not like you're completely cut off from materials/sales. There is a trade channel, after all.	
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			Didn't see this coming, but guess they have to due to all the item and gear changes.	
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			I put my soul on the line that the launch will still break.	
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			Please Carbine, can't you add European time (CET) to your schedules as well? Just as a service to us EU folks? World is bigger than 'Murica you know. ;)	
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Please Carbine, can't you add European time (CET) to your schedules as well? Just as a service to us EU folks? World is bigger than 'Murica you know. ;)
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	Edited September 20, 2015 by EsperXIV	
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Another example of how lazy the carbines devs are aside from the asinine way they handled the whole re-runing current gear.
 
Instead of creating a script that returns all items in AX,AH the day before patch they much rather bring the AX,AH down for 9 days and let the items return on their own.
 
 
#bobsays
GDMFWB.   lazy devs  (>_<)	
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Yea I really don't buy the rationale here. You couldn't just disable the post button so that no new auctions would be made, but people could still buy and cancel existing auctions? And what possible reason could there be for two days' notice? How many people do you think read the forums on Friday/Saturday? And the little message at the top left of the screen when you log-in is almost completely useless... there's always some jibberish there so it's natural for people to just ignore it when they enter the game, as well as fact that people who use large screens don't even have that part in their focused field of vision.
 
Editing the rudeness out of my last post but sweet lord, this is yet another WTF moment. I can't even imagine the foibles we're going to see for the launch next week.	
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			Don't worry guys, the credd exchange still works! so keep buying credd and selling it........   :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  	
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Don't worry guys, the credd exchange still works! so keep buying credd and selling it........   :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  
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So you're saying I should stand AFK in front of the CREDD NPC for now. Okay o/
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Are ongoing auctions with bids frozen until the 29th or still going even though the AH can't be accessed? Are they going to be canceled and refunded?
 
I'm curious if I and others are going to get their gold and items back before the 29th or if the auctions will be completed with the last bid when the timer runs out and everything mailed as normal.	
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Excuse me,
does this mean that I won't be able to transfer my characters back to Luminai until all my actions are expired?
Because, well, I didn't think about it when I posted amps and runes on CE yesterday and right now I cannot transfer due to actions being up. And you changed the date for transfering <<all character must be transferred before the 28th>>, that is the day my auctions expire right? On 27th.
Doesn't this leave me very few hours to get all my stuff sorted? And what if I wanted to transfer in advance due to guild management?	
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			Well, good thing I'm going on vacation. A little annoying, but oh well. 	
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Excuse me,
does this mean that I won't be able to transfer my characters back to Luminai until all my actions are expired?
Because, well, I didn't think about it when I posted amps and runes on CE yesterday and right now I cannot transfer due to actions being up. And you changed the date for transfering >, that is the day my auctions expire right? On 27th.
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Would it be possible to merge the AH/CX on PvP and PvE realms? I feel this would help a lot in preventing harsh imbalance in server populations again.
 
Something something materials easier to acquire on PvE realm something different economy something something... Hardly as big of a concern as having one server die out again like it did in the past, no?	
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			Will the credd market be brought down before f2p launches to reset the market on credd?	
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			So is the AH/CX back up? I just put up a dye for sell on ours (warhound)..... ???	
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Uh oh.... Pretty sure it's not meant to be up yet, no.
 
I'd grab that dye back rather than risk losing it if I were you :)	
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