You may recall the death of “3rd party mods” for money. During the heated arguments many players lauded Blizzard for “keeping the playing field level” for all righteous gamers everywhere. It was Blizzard against the greedy add-on developers! Whoo-ha!

So much for that level playing field when each of my toons have the best mounts, the soonest, all BoE epics, etc. because I can afford the AH surcharge.

Hypocrisy at it’s finest, if you believe that Blizzard has a stake in keeping the playing field level. I always saw it as a reluctance to share the wealth, imho.

Currently the Armory application for the iPhone doesn’t require that you enter your authenticator number, although the in-game interaction with that is very limited (I think you can just confirm raiding times from your calendar).

The online Auction House you linked is pretty interesting, I’ve never seen that site, I wonder how they gather their data.
.-= Sarama´s last blog ..Auction House Series =-.

Even if it was a one time fee or a monthly flat rate to post auctions online, they must know that a lot of us go to school or work, and now players who pay that extra money will have an advantage as they can access the AH at those places when the rest of us who aren’t paying that premium won’t be able to.

Also, will the connection require your authenticator if you have one? if not it seems like another avenue for you to get you account hacked.

too bad not many people use auctioneerdb.com it could be a great project but it just doesn’t have enough data… and I don’t know how accurate http://www.wowoah.com is.

Like you have said, if this will allow us to post/buy/cancel auctions, then I can see several websites popping that will launch to automatically cancel/re-list items for a player, or even automatically flip items on the AH for you.

If it’s just going to be an official version of http://us.auctioneerdb.com/ then I don’t think it will change the game much, at all.
.-= Sarama´s last blog ..Auction House Series =-.