Originally Posted by
BB_Trafffer
The Auction House addition is part of the Trade Office redesign, which was one of the reasons why the game's performance was not as good as expected. The first version of Auction House, which was originally added to our test server together with the Trade Office redesign, was removed from the update that hit the live servers. Based on feedback, we have made changes to the Auction House system and it has been added again with the latest update, so this version is not the original one, but the upgraded based on suggestions/reports from the test server.