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Stormspire.net recently posted a new interview with Blizzard Entertainment developers about the game's economy, auction house, and professions. The discussion covered a variety of issues including how the developers deal with inflation, catch-up mechanisms for professions, and plans for cross-realm auction houses

4. Are you considering cross-realm auction houses to address the difficulties of getting along in a particularly large or small economy?

A: Yes. We don’t have any announcements to make, but we’re exploring whether it makes sense to merge together the auction houses (or maybe even player trading capability) of realms with small populations, including those with imbalanced faction populations so that the Horde or Alliance presence is small. If we did something like this, we’d do it selectively similar to how we merge lower-level realms with the Cross-Realm Zone feature. We don’t like the idea of region-wide AHs because that removes a lot of the potential for underbidding, cornering the market and so forth.

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