Guild Wars 2

Or do a Storage Wars kind of thing.

Take any “sell orders” that have been sitting there for more than a month and auction them off to the highest bidders. Trick is, you don’t tell them what they are bidding on. Just tell them the item type.

Rakuren Kenshou.7689:

Or do a Storage Wars kind of thing.

Take any “sell orders” that have been sitting there for more than a month and auction them off to the highest bidders. Trick is, you don’t tell them what they are bidding on. Just tell them the item type.

Hmmmm…..interesting.

Anet could make a post in game telling people that items that have been listed for sale in the Trading Post for more than 2 months will be pulled and players will be compensated for 10% of the value listed. If players want to keep their items, they would need to take the listing down before the deadline.

Then….all of those items can be “bagged up” and auctioned off. A bag could contain 25 or so items. Don’t tell players what’s in them…..but each day (or hour, or two hours….depending on the number of items taken off the TP), a new “bag” goes up on the Trading Post for people to bid on…..highest bid wins the bag. This could go on for an entire month.

The great thing about something like this is that a TON of items would be removed from the Trading Post, people could end up getting some AMAZING deals….and ALL of the gold used to buy these “bags” would be removed from the system (minus the 10% that went to the original seller as “compensation”.)

I’m sure it would cause some heartburn throughout the community as many people would overbid on a mystery bag and get something like 25 Copper Ore…..but it’s a risk….you could also end up with an Eternity…..

Why should people who have not touched the game in 2 months be punished?

Vol.5241:

Why should people who have not touched the game in 2 months be punished?

It was only an idea. I don’t think all of my ideas are “pure gold” or anything. I didn’t even consider it as a punishment…..but if someone hasn’t played in 2 months….why would many of them care if their items are removed and auctioned off?

Perhaps as another measure besides the in game message, they could send an e-mail to every GW2 account holder. That way, you have the chance to remove your item, lose the 5% listing fee (which probably doesn’t matter at a point 2 months after you listed it) and keep your item.

If the player doesn’t care about GW2 or they items they listed on the TP 2 months ago….they’d just let the items go.

Instead of basing it on inactivity, it could be a way to reward players who have items stuck in the TP waiting to sell.

Let’s say that each player with a 2 month inactive item gets an email offering to clear it out in an auction format. If they accept, they get a 90% commission off whatever is made in the auction. If they don’t accept, the item continues to sit there.

Just like in Storage Wars, perhaps the auction would give a hint as to what might be inside.