BMAH Buying…. And Selling?
Possible introduction of the Black Market Auction House (BMAH) is very
exciting and a lot has been said about the positives and also possible
negatives. However might the introduction of the BMAH be a stepping stone to
selling BOP items on the AH. With pets and mounts likely becoming account wide
in MoP the BMAH might offer a way of using up those additional copies of
pets/mounts you have.
Take this example; you roll a new toon and do the horde
balloon quest yay! One nice new shiny balloon.. oh wait I’ve already learnt it… hmm I guess I just destroy it.
You think to yourself “ I wont be doing that quests on my next alt”.
What if you could post your little balloon on the BMAH? You
see how this could continue and before you know it we can post up mounts, rare bop
recipe and wait for it… quest rewards. You know when you make that awesome set
in mogit and hunt down where it comes from and find you did that quest like 4
years ago and vendored the reward and go cry a little. Well now you could buy
this item from the Auction House yes!
But they would never do this because if you could buy the
mount that drops off the last boss in the current raid then why would you raid? Well Blizz
could just put on a restriction where
the BMAH BOP auctions only work for non-current expansion content. So you can
not buy that trinket you need for your Ret set, but you can buy that amazing
looking transmog weapon from ICC. What would theAH cut be? 15% like the Neutral Auction House would make
sense because at least then some gold is being removed from the economy.
I know everyone has been talking about what info has been
released but I started thinking about some of the negative impacts like
increased Gold Buying but then started thinking about some positives and
possible next steps.
There is no indication Blizz is planning on introducing a
posting function to the BMAH but just think about how it would shake up the
game if they did.
Another possible side effect of the BMAH is it might get
more people interested in gold making. I guess that is going to be really good
for the gold making community.
What do you think about the BMAH? Is there a big enough demand for some way of retrieving old
quest rewards?
Some of us have been around a while, Blizz give us a way of getting back stuff we got rid of before transmog was introduced.
