Guild Wars 2

Hi all and thanks for the efforts to provide us with a new and improved trading post!

I have multiple accounts for Guild Wars 2, and noticed something about the new trading post…

When I log out of one account and into another, my “Recently viewed” history from the first account is visible on the new account (main page of the trading post).

The sell history is correct, so it doesn’t appear to be a critical issue. That said, I haven’t done an exhaustive check.

Perhaps a solution to this is ensuring that you clear any session variables/cookies at logout?

I can imagine folks in the html design and QA teams reading this and going, “oops.”

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I can imagine folks in the html design and QA teams reading this and going, “oops.”

LOLOL

I wonder if it has anything to do with being on the same computer on both accounts. If so, it might mean that 2 different people who both use the same computer to play can see each other’s trading post’s history.

I don’t know if this could be considered a breach of privacy or not, but it does seem to mean privileged information might be available to others without permission.

It may simply be cached locally.

Behellagh.1468:

It may simply be cached locally.

I agree.

The game client probably doesn’t have separate profiles for local caching. It’s not a full featured web browser, after all.

Recently viewed also includes every single item I’ve sold. Since I sell more items than I buy, the feature is essentially worthless for me.

There’s no question they need to make some adjustments:

• All buy and sell orders should display, regardless of age.
• All historical transactions should display, with an option to group/ungroup non-simultaneous entries from a single original listing. For performance, they might need to limit this to 90 days (the default before the patch), but it is unreasonable to limit it to 90 or even 900 transactions.
• Recent transactions stored to a local cache should depend on who is logged into the game, not just logged into the computer. One account should never show activity from another.

Agree with the first point.

I would be in favor of a show more/all button for historical transactions.

I suspect the assumption was that separate game accounts would be under separate users and that cache is stored in the local.dat file found in the user folder structure already. It’s only when logging in under the same user but to different game accounts where this would be a problem.