Auction items decline - other servers similar?

MageMERC - Harshlands wrote: »

It wasn't so long ago that a search of tomes, gears and molds for example would have you sifting through pages and pages of items to try and find what you were after.

I had a look yesterday and there were about 8 tomes, 1 page and a bit of molds and a couple of pages of gears.

Interestingly there are still pages and pages of skill books. I understand the decline in molds due to either less bh runs or almost as likely, most molds being worth very little but gears and tomes, to me anyway, directly reflects player involvement.

I was a bit surprised because there seems to be a greater population on HL since NW came along but its not reflected in the AH, anyway that's all...what are the other severs like?

blame fc
back in the old days there was constant fbs, people helped new players and everyone was kind to each other. But nows its about me me me me me. Items like molds come from fb's but no one does fb's anymore

AH on HL is dead, HL is kinda dead inactive, I don't know about other servers, but except bh there's nothing to do the week.

It's the current state of the game. The only thing most people do is Plvl/FF then farm money for S3/R9. For alts repeat. For these same reasons it's hard to find a low level BH, meaning not 100+BH.

I can put a item in AH early in the day and at the end of the day it's a mere 1-3 pages back in the list.

Also the fact that AH has a fee, Catshops do not, many just 24/7 catshop.

Also the fact that if you want to farm something to make good money it's a good idea to farm something bots can't. It's not just about bots tho, it's about the amount of coin needed for S3/R9, good luck farming that on DQs and Herbs. Meaning TT/Lunar/AEU/Warsong (instances) etc, whatever can BE farmed that grants the most coins. And higher the price the higher the fee in AH. There's tons of players who have made it to the point of farming expensive drops, so the AH will never be what it was long ago.

And if that's not all no there's more, TONS o people just invest in CS items during sales and put up a 24/7 catshop with packs/items that were on sale at a time only for full price.

Point being AH is yes getting pretty dead on HT also. At least I can still get cheap common golds/greens for my alts sometimes.