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After playing the AH manually for a long time, I'd know that a stack of ore would sell for 20g. I was manually buying when under 20g and relisting. My script
by Vvector 3y ago
After playing the AH manually for a long time, I'd know that a stack of ore would sell for 20g. I was manually buying when under 20g and relisting. My script just reduced the tedium. I'd manually add in checks for each high-volume item. It was super-hacky, but so effective, I didn't need to improve it.
One script would iterate over every item in my inventory. If it matched a hard-coded list, it would auto-list it at the hard-coded price. Another script would scan every item on the AH, and if matched another hard coded list, it would buy them.
Another story, pre-script. WOW had the inscription update incoming, which used flowers to make glyphs. I correctly assumed the demand for Peacebloom (tier 1 ingredient) would skyrocket once the patch hit. I spent three weeks buying everything on the AH, using multiple characters to store it all. The night before the update, I listed it all for 20x the normal price. The next morning, everything sold out completely. I remember it being 200 stacks @ 5g each, sold for 100g each.
- hinkley 3y agoI recall when Pandaria hit there was some resource where you could get only like one a day but they could be sold. The power gamers and the server first people were buying all they could to craft gear to ratchet up the Raid ladder ASAP. I convinced a couple of my friends to sell all theirs at the prevailing price, which was just stupid high, and on about the day we would have been able to craft our first item, the price had crashed so much we bought them back at a lower price. If you waited a few more days, you could buy enough for two items. Getting 70% of the way to a goal has 0 value. You can often sell your patience to other people in that game.
- eru 3y ago> Getting 70% of the way to a goal has 0 value. Well, apart from the fun of playing the game?
- pests 3y agoNo, games are only fun if you get all the achivements and 100% the game and buy every item ever relased in the shop and complete all battle pass levels because FOMO because gaming is not about having fun anymore, its about reaching artificially set goals and collecting cosmetics.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> gaming is not about having fun anymore, its about reaching artificially set goals and collecting cosmetics I.e. it became indistinguishable from normal adult life.
- pests 3y ago:(
- DeathArrow 3y agoAt which point, you rather quit gaming and use your time and energy in the real life. That way you can touch your achievements because they aren't just numbers in a SQL database.
- eru 3y agoIf you make lots of money, and keep it at the bank, your achievement might very well be recorded as a number in a database. (But with the distinction that you can withdraw and spend that money.)
- DeathArrow 3y agoWhen you play a game you trade your time to make other people rich. When you work you trade your time to make you rich. That is the most important distinction. Would you buy you a Lexus or help someone else buy their second yacht?
- pests 3y agoYou can play games without committing any sum of money though.
- DeathArrow 3y agoBut your presence in game attracts others who will do some spending.
- hinkley 3y agoYou don’t get the shiny or the achievement until you hit that milestone. If I wasn’t clear, I wasn’t meaning “completionism” by 100%, I just meant the milestone.