The grim state of the EU West market

Just out of curiosity, how many cosmetics do you guys see listed in other regions?

Edited: This is the Sorceress > Chestpiece tab on EUW.

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Hm,

since I check daily, there are always various pages with skins on EUW. You need to click the magnifying class to start a search, did you do this?

In EUC, pages upon pages, usually 10+.
That is just sad…
They should at least link the markets and auction houses in EU to help with this.

AGS: I’m aware that you mostly do localization/support/marketing and SmileGate is in charge of updates, but since we don’t speak Korean and we can’t ask them directly… I’m assuming that they are well aware of this failure, so is there an official stance on the future of EUW? Is the potential for cross-region matchmaking and AH (I appreciate that these things take time) being discussed at all while the players who haven’t quit already keep pouring hundreds of hours and euros into the game?

No drama, no unrealistic demands or expectations that this is going to happen tomorrow, we just need a little transparency. In the last dev post you stated “we promised to be honest, sometimes brutally so” - so if we’re screwed and we’d better reroll or go play other games, please actually be brutal and tell us now before the press starts picking up on how you screwed players :confused:

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Asking for the same thing - made a post here!

I just checked EUC has 10 pages and EUW 3 pages.

So there must be a bug at the OP.

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Like I specified in the edit, this is just the sorceress > chestpiece tab. Sorceress is the most played spec in the game, it surely wasn’t this bad last month. Also, this is not the auction house but the market so you’re seeing a single entry for every type of skin… the number of actual sellers for each one of them is orders of magnitudes higher on EUC.

EUC Chestpiece this moment

Very few on EUW got any tradeable versions of these items. They were given the non tradeable versions as compensation.

It should have been pretty obvious there would be zero copies of these items for sale on EUW going forward. As most founders had already claimed the trade versions on EUC.

I even said ages ago if you had not claimed your founders items on EUC you would be able to print money for it on EUW.

Personally i think it’s too early to say if there will be a long term issues. People >1385 on EUW are the break away group, the rest of the peleton is still 1340-1370.

I started on EUC, started again when they launched EUW and have played a fair bit and only just hit 1370 this week on moonkeep.

I’d say we’re probably at least 3 weeks behind EUC for levelling (and EUC has all the hard pushers too which compounds the problem).

Destructive, Alar, Omen skins are missing too. There’s just nothing.

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Hopefully if you are able to make enough noise amazon can pass this to Smilegate

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We can hope! Just need one of the many threads to get some attention.

I just wanted to let u know :smiley: @Roxx @AGS @SG Can we please have a Statement what are your plans with dying EUW? - #2 by Roxx

Not gonna lie, I certainly appreciate the reply but I also find it a little discouraging. I don’t expect Roxx or anyone from AGS to wave a wand and single-handedly solve the issue :smile: but those words aren’t exactly an acknowledgement that there is one either.

Queueing for sub-T3 guardians or looking for specific engravings can already be pretty frustrating, and world bosses/events often don’t have enough players unless you’re on the two biggest servers. I would never try to convince a friend to start playing here today, I don’t want them to hate me when they’re 100 hours in. The population trend is already obvious.

Search skin chests not specific class pieces. There are pages of unopened chests. Also most skins are not role but class specific. Such as Mage vs Sorc or Warrior vs Zerker.

Nah, sorceress shows everything for mages… there’s now exactly 1 overpriced Telestic Alar Chestpiece in the entirety of EUW and that’s it. But this isn’t about the skins, forget the example - I could search for T3 accessories and not be able to find the combination of engravings I need. it’s bad.

Relic accessories, two days ago:

and this is EUC for comparison:

411 pages (with obscene prices) against 8886

Good luck finding anything with the right combination of stats and engravings.

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Thanks for posting this. @Roxx there are serious issues here on the market house! Any update?

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Looking for a crit/swiftness necklace with 3 Reflux and 3 Hit Master: