Topic: All RPGs should have auction houses

[idolminds]

Even singleplayer ones. You just go up to the AH and sell the cool stuff you've found. The game maker can host the auctions online. You could even do a web-based version so you can browse and watch game auctions when you arent playing the game. Log in to the site and you can buy the item and next time you log in to the game, there you have it.

I was just thinking about how much I like the AH in WoW, and its something I miss in other RPGs. You find the Awesome Helmet of Kickass, and you can't wear it because you're not a warrior or whatever. Most games the merchants give you next to nothing for items (Oblivion). It would rock to throw that thing online and get some gold for it.

The only downside to this awesome idea is hackers would completely ruin it and dupe shit, or give themselves tons of money to buy anything.

[Quemaqua]

And it wouldn't be feasible in SP, because SP games don't require the number of hours MMO games do.  The MMO stuff is all about the grind, the tireless waste of time in order to find better stuff.  In SP, that has to be a lot shorter to keep people interested, as grinding shit gets *really fucking boring* unless you've got the social aspect to keep you going.  So if you have an SP game with an online auction house, I don't know it would really work.  You'd either have to make the items really super rare so that players *have* to get them via the AH most of the time, or you'd just have an AH flooded with items that anybody could just get in their own game.

[angrykeebler]

Neopets has auctions.




*cough*

[Quemaqua]

Neopets are the fucking devil.

[iPPi]

Dude, just play World of Warcraft man.