Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about you guys but I miss the barter system and haggling. Competitor MMO’s have both Auction Houses and trading so I don’t know why we can’t have it?

Also I am tired of having 10% of all my deals on the TP being cut out.

Sure the TP does make alot of things easier but why take away player to player trade?

FYI: I feel like this has been done several times before but I couldn’t find any forum similar to this in search.

You have to use google, not the worthless forum search.
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Example 1 has answers from ANet staffers.

Since it was never in this game, how does one “bring it back”?

P2P Trade will never happen in this game, unless you do it via mail.

I miss the p2p-trading too. Kourna in GW1 was so full of live with all the people and the trading that was going on. Then finding the player you made a deal over chat with to use the trade-function…sigh…memories…good old times.

The mail-system sadly is sub-efficient for p2p. You can’t even send everyone in your party an item without getting prompted with the spam-limiter. Everytime I want to share some buff-food, we have to start a mail-chain.

I don’t miss WTS/WTB spam in every chat channel at all…

doubt they’ll ever change it. there isn’t too much gold sink in this game.

and dont’ think anet want to put custom support for scams. right now, if any scams happen they can just say “hey, you are suppose to use the trade post”.

even if anet put out a robust trade system there will be scams. and quite honest i seen many games that can’t even put out a reliable trade system. (cough cough diablo 3, made by the biggest online game studio)

• I don’t miss the WTS/WTB spamming
• I don’t miss the frequent forum posts about being scammed
• I don’t miss the stories of veteran players taking advantage of newbies
• I think the TP fee as a gold sink is a wonderful idea

Player-to-player trade is obsolete in this game. With a global TP as the main hub of selling, there’s no honest reason to trade item-for-item. It’s not like you cannot give people stuff. And you shouldn’t be thinking of helping people who you don’t trust enough to trade via the mailing system.