Guild Wars 2

I engage in market flipping and have been buying and selling some commodities quite frequently. As such, I am well acquainted with the prices, and keep a note of the prices I buy and sell at.

Last night, the Black Lion Trading Company went down with an error 502, for about half an hour. When it came back, huge volumes of orders by others for the commodities I buy and sell had disappeared. Subsequently, the order prices had dropped to about a third of their previous values. Since this point, there has been a steady decrease in the price to buy instantly these items.

I’m wondering if anyone else saw this, and if anyone knows why it happened. Was it an Arenanet action against bots? I’m not hugely upset by it as an integral part of market trading is risk, but I’m just curious as to why it happened.

Best regards,
Laukei

People got 2 rares and 2 exotics at the end of the event as a reward → Thousands of players sold these items to the TP → Prices went down the river.

Sindariel.2354:

People got 2 rares and 2 exotics at the end of the event as a reward -> Thousands of players sold these items to the TP -> Prices went down the river.

Yup.

Was impressive to see the TP get flooded with sell orders like that all at once.

In patch notes they said they upped the drop rate of yellow and orange items. I didn’t notice much change all weekend.. and then POW.