wow Remote AH Discontinued Due to Low Popularity

[Stan 5,240]

Last week, we learned about the Remote Auction House retiring on April 18, but why did they decide to discontinue the service in the first place?

Community Manager Ythisens claims that just 1% of the community uses the Remote Auction House on a regular basis and the service has a bunch of issues that just take dev time away from working on new content. They aren't planning to bring it back in the foreseeable future either.

Blizzard (Source)

The Web/Mobile Auction had a lot more issues with keeping it up than it was really worth for the small amount of players that actually used it. Trying to tackle and fix those issues (for transparency the majority were just exploits) just takes dev time away from working on new content. While it may change in the future, we currently at this time aren't planning to bring this back. 

Because they need to show investors that people are still logging into the game.

If you really, truly believe us deprecating the mobile Auction House, which was used by the tiniest fraction of a single percent of the community, has anything to do with the health of the game, then I don't think we're ever going to be able to see eye to eye on much.

[Yridaa 490]

Translation:

 

"Despite attempts for many years, our programmers do not have the competence to keep this feature feasible. We have therefore decided to deprecate the feature altogether. And although we have previously stated that this feature was being maintained by a different group than the one working on actual development of the game, we will still use the excuse that it "just takes dev time away from working on new content."

 

Investors do not care how many people are logging into the game (Or even whether they are or not) as long as people pay for it.

 

On a completely unrelated note, 1% of the community uses this feature."

 - Blizzard

[Caldyrvan 377]

I really start to hate how blizzard is making statements, wording it like it is something good or better and/or things that are wrong or do not even matter just because it makes the whole thing sound reasonable.

It's similar to when they announce a change that aims to make more profit, hidden between a lot of explanations and then saying things like "The community was asking for it".

Edited April 12, 2018 by Caldyrvan

[KonadorAuchindoun 4]

12 hours ago, Stan said:

(for transparency the

transparent ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Murky 4]

Remote AH was the only reason for me to use this app (I was too lazy to move all my alts to capitals only to sell some junk). Now I am going to simply remove it.

Edited April 12, 2018 by Murky

[PatrickHenry 293]

I dont see anything wrong with their explanation.

Tiny fraction of a tiny percentage use a product.  Product has issues that require attention (exploits, they even said).

Continue to devote time to a miniscule portion of the playerbase or cut it out and save the headache.

I dont see either as a 'wrong' answer.

[Haheisenberg 32]

Guess what else will be used by less than 1% of the players but takes a lot more of dev time... Wow classic...

[PatrickHenry 293]

52 minutes ago, Haheisenberg said:

Guess what else will be used by less than 1% of the players but takes a lot more of dev time... Wow classic...

Well if you have the numbers to prove it like they in theory should, you might have a point.

[Allseye 96]

22 hours ago, Yridaa said:

Translation:

 

"Despite attempts for many years, our programmers do not have the competence to keep this feature feasible. We have therefore decided to deprecate the feature altogether. And although we have previously stated that this feature was being maintained by a different group than the one working on actual development of the game, we will still use the excuse that it "just takes dev time away from working on new content."

 

Investors do not care how many people are logging into the game (Or even whether they are or not) as long as people pay for it.

 

On a completely unrelated note, 1% of the community uses this feature."

 - Blizzard

Funny to read, you made me grin :-), But I really hope you wrote it with a sense of humor and not out of seriousness. Because it would be a highly unqualified statement ;-)

[Yridaa 490]

37 minutes ago, Allseye said:

Funny to read, you made me grin :-), But I really hope you wrote it with a sense of humor and not out of seriousness. Because it would be a highly unqualified statement ;-)

Of course it was written with a sense of humor, I'd still like to think that the truth is somewhere between their answer and my translation, however.

[Shadehallow 8]

There was a remote auction house?!