There is something inherently wrong with what you are asking. I am not trying to turn this into a TP flippers argument one way or the other.
BUT, do we really need an app to allow people to spend all day every day no matter where they are flipping stuff on the TP? I thought this was an MMO anyway not a stock market simulation game.
That is likely to be ‘never’. What is more likely to happen is that they will release the authenticated API and then people can build whatever app they want with that.
Are you talking about an app that check item price. Or “actually trade” item without logging in. Interesting idea.
We already have many websites that check item price, for example gw2spidy. What would be more interesting is an app that actually trades items through a smart phone. Great if I can place limit buy/sell orders like I can with the stock market and have it tracks my profits/losses.
There is something inherently wrong with what you are asking. I am not trying to turn this into a TP flippers argument one way or the other.
BUT, do we really need an app to allow people to spend all day every day no matter where they are flipping stuff on the TP? I thought this was an MMO anyway not a stock market simulation game.
No offense, but this is a terrible idea.
Fully agree… unless its an app that’s giving the same tp interface with live times but no actual trading function I couldn’t see this being a good thing considering how big of a leg up it would give a fairly small segment of the population. People don’t need to be day trading all day at work, but if they wanted to make an app like someone said earlier that tracks all your buys and sells and profits and such that’s great in my book, I’d like that myself.
I also think this would be a bad idea in general because it would enable you to generate money in the game without actually playing it. Flipping items on the TP already is the easiest way to generate gold. I do it myself but i think being able to do it on the go will only benefit us tp flippers, giving us even more power to monopolize the market, resulting in inflation and a worse overall experience of the general player base.
If you flip stuff on the tp, you should actually play the game as well.
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There is something inherently wrong with what you are asking. I am not trying to turn this into a TP flippers argument one way or the other.
BUT, do we really need an app to allow people to spend all day every day no matter where they are flipping stuff on the TP? I thought this was an MMO anyway not a stock market simulation game.
No offense, but this is a terrible idea.
Fully agree… unless its an app that’s giving the same tp interface with live times but no actual trading function I couldn’t see this being a good thing considering how big of a leg up it would give a fairly small segment of the population.
Then you must really hate gw2spidy because it has a different interface from the TP.
The game needs to be improved more than the limited TP interface that we have in the game so please don’t set the TP interface so the only good acceptable interface because it is very limited and buggy. Don’t get me started on the problems with the TP interface.
If the TP interface in the game is your favorite interface in the game then you are too easily satisfied. Can you search back items? Can you filter armor by weight classes? There are so many problems and even bugs with it and ArenaNet devs seem to be too busy to fix them. We should allow third party developers to develop apps for the TP to improve the situation. Sorry if I like to see improvements rather than maintaining the status quo.
There is something inherently wrong with what you are asking. I am not trying to turn this into a TP flippers argument one way or the other.
BUT, do we really need an app to allow people to spend all day every day no matter where they are flipping stuff on the TP? I thought this was an MMO anyway not a stock market simulation game.
No offense, but this is a terrible idea.
Fully agree… unless its an app that’s giving the same tp interface with live times but no actual trading function I couldn’t see this being a good thing considering how big of a leg up it would give a fairly small segment of the population.
Then you must really hate gw2spidy because it has a different interface from the TP.
The game needs to be improved more than the limited TP interface that we have in the game so please don’t set the TP interface so the only good acceptable interface because it is very limited and buggy. Don’t get me started on the problems with the TP interface.
If the TP interface in the game is your favorite interface in the game then you are too easily satisfied. Can you search back items? Can you filter armor by weight classes? There are so many problems and even bugs with it and ArenaNet devs seem to be too busy to fix them. We should allow third party developers to develop apps for the TP to improve the situation. Sorry if I like to see improvements rather than maintaining the status quo.
I NEVER said I liked it so don’t put words in my mouth… I just don’t want added functionality for a mobile app… there’s no reason to encourage MORE bots than there already are speculated to be on the tp… its all about keeping things consistant… I fully agree the in game interface needs an overhaul but that has nothing to do with the fact that this never needs to ever happen.
There is something inherently wrong with what you are asking. I am not trying to turn this into a TP flippers argument one way or the other.
BUT, do we really need an app to allow people to spend all day every day no matter where they are flipping stuff on the TP? I thought this was an MMO anyway not a stock market simulation game.
No offense, but this is a terrible idea.
Fully agree… unless its an app that’s giving the same tp interface with live times but no actual trading function I couldn’t see this being a good thing considering how big of a leg up it would give a fairly small segment of the population.
Then you must really hate gw2spidy because it has a different interface from the TP.
The game needs to be improved more than the limited TP interface that we have in the game so please don’t set the TP interface so the only good acceptable interface because it is very limited and buggy. Don’t get me started on the problems with the TP interface.
If the TP interface in the game is your favorite interface in the game then you are too easily satisfied. Can you search back items? Can you filter armor by weight classes? There are so many problems and even bugs with it and ArenaNet devs seem to be too busy to fix them. We should allow third party developers to develop apps for the TP to improve the situation. Sorry if I like to see improvements rather than maintaining the status quo.
I NEVER said I liked it so don’t put words in my mouth… I just don’t want added functionality for a mobile app… there’s no reason to encourage MORE bots than there already are speculated to be on the tp… its all about keeping things consistant… I fully agree the in game interface needs an overhaul but that has nothing to do with the fact that this never needs to ever happen.
There are big differences between a mobile app and a bot so do not mix them up in the same sentence.
There are already free programs that anyone can download to enhance much needed functionalities of the TP. Since they are not bots, they work as external programs to the game client.
In a perfect world, ArenaNet would have unlimited resources to improve their game and everyone would get what they want. However, ArenaNet devs do not seem to have the time to enhance the TP to an extend that we need, so they require third party developers to help out. And no, I do not think that checking for undercuts every few seconds, so that I can buy the items that I want, is acceptable.
Being able to trade via a third-party app would require some stringent security checks.
You’d have to provide login details for the app to work and access your ingame info.
I don’t know if I’m comfortable with anyone other than Anet doing this.
But if Anet is developing this, I’d check it out.
Same here, I would be writing the app myself if that were to happen. Even then unless they also provide a sandbox for testing the code that is still very dangerous.
Being able to trade via a third-party app would require some stringent security checks.
You’d have to provide login details for the app to work and access your ingame info.
I don’t know if I’m comfortable with anyone other than Anet doing this.
But if Anet is developing this, I’d check it out.
Same here, I would be writing the app myself if that were to happen. Even then unless they also provide a sandbox for testing the code that is still very dangerous.
Fair enough, which is why some apps also released their source code as open source. You can look through them, build and run them from their sources if you prefer.
Being able to trade via a third-party app would require some stringent security checks.
You’d have to provide login details for the app to work and access your ingame info.
I don’t know if I’m comfortable with anyone other than Anet doing this.
But if Anet is developing this, I’d check it out.
Same here, I would be writing the app myself if that were to happen. Even then unless they also provide a sandbox for testing the code that is still very dangerous.
Fair enough, which is why some apps also released their source code as open source. You can look through them, build and run them from their sources if you prefer.
Being able to trade via a third-party app would require some stringent security checks.
You’d have to provide login details for the app to work and access your ingame info.
I don’t know if I’m comfortable with anyone other than Anet doing this.
But if Anet is developing this, I’d check it out.
Same here, I would be writing the app myself if that were to happen. Even then unless they also provide a sandbox for testing the code that is still very dangerous.
Fair enough, which is why some apps also released their source code as open source. You can look through them, build and run them from their sources if you prefer.
Testing code on live data is still very very bad.
Since you have their source code, you are free to change it anyway you want. You don’t have to test on live data if you dont want to.
It’s entirely possible, at this current time, to play the TP from a mobile device with 100% functionality. I doubt if anyone’s has actually made an app to do it though and it would most likely be classified as a violation.
It’s entirely possible, at this current time, to play the TP from a mobile device with 100% functionality. I doubt if anyone’s has actually made an app to do it though and it would most likely be classified as a violation.
Can you search back items? Can you filter armor by weight classes?
Yes, but’s that probably just me. When I finally get around to it…
I wonder what ArenaNet’s stance is though, on a little TP fixing/improvements.
Yeah I dont know why, some of these annoying bugs may have been around since release. My guess is that they probably have higher priority work items on their plate.
WoW came out with an Auction House app, that is the app I was talking about.
People farm in this game, be it for resources, dungeons, achievements, or the Trading Post (Flipping).
Everyone enjoys different things about GW2, not much difference in farming whatever or the Trading Post, you still have to spend time doing it, so that means time unspent farming something else.
