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[MongoJerry]

My theory from the moment I saw it was that D3's auction house was designed by an undergraduate CS major doing it as a project for an unpaid summer internship. "Oh, goodie! I just learned how to use databases and create SQL commnads. Let's throw some tables together and use some default database GUI widgets to make an auction house for millions of people to use all at one!"

Okay, weaknesses of the AH aside, don't be an armchair programmer. You saying this makes it clear you've never really messed with a database that has tables with over 100k rows.

My point was, Quark, that the programmer who designed the AH didn't know much about designing databases with over 100k rows, either. It seemed like a very slap-dash job for something that was supposed to be a central feature in the game.