Guild Wars 2

I can only see a small part of the listings of an item, when I select all the listings and compare them with gw2spidy.com, the numbers are different.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying but you should know that GW2 Spidy doesn’t have real-time information. The popular items are cached more frequently, and the less popular items may not be updated for 15 minutes to an hour.

You will definitely notice differences between the official trading post and any other 3rd party website. The only one that is real-time is Zicore’s Trading Post Notifier, and only because it directly connects to your gaming session.

I took a screenshot of the bug, I can only see a part of the listings. I know there are more listings then 16259. According to GW2Spidy there are 32151 listings. (http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/12341)

All the items I tested have different amount of listings compared to gw2spidy.

Aralon.7501:

I took a screenshot of the bug, I can only see a part of the listings. I know there are more listings then 16259. According to GW2Spidy there are 32151 listings. (http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/12341)

All the items I tested have different amount of listings compared to gw2spidy.

Pretty sure you can only purchase like, 250 at a time. You have to make multiple purchases.

Yeah, you can only buy stuff in a max of 250. So if you wanted to buy 16,259 of something, you would have to do a transaction on the same item 66 times.

And also, Spidy may or my not be right in this case. I can’t tell you 100% for sure, but I think the GW2 TP cuts off listings at a certain amount. So while there are 10,000+ items on there, you will only be shown the first 1,000 or so listings by price.

I’m pretty certain, though, that either Spidy or the TP or both are cutting corners somewhere. It wouldn’t make sense for the TP to push out ALL of the listings of an item – it would just take unneeded bandwidth. More likely, the TP says how many items are “listed” in total, but then only shows you the first few thousand.

Spidy’s database comes directly from the TP. If you are thinking there is a problem with spidy, you should be able to cross-reference Spidy’s info with GuildWarsTrade and any other 3rd party crawler. For most people though, just having the correct prices and profits is enough.

The TP never cut of listings before the update. Before the update I could see listings all the way up to 1g for 1 grape. They didn’t put this change in the notes.

Aralon.7501:

The TP never cut of listings before the update. Before the update I could see listings all the way up to 1g for 1 grape. They didn’t put this change in the notes.

Like I said, I can’t be 100% certain about it. Logically, it just seems to me to be a waste of bandwidth to show every single item when realistically, nobody is going to buy 10,000 of an item. Even if they did start making a huge dent in it, it would just reload all of the data when you searched for it again.

This game isn’t a paid subscription, so ANet has to cut some corners somewhere. And uploading the entire front-end of the database to someone every time they do an unfiltered search sounds like a huge waste of bandwidth.

Is there a particular reason you want to see every single posting of an item? I really doubt you will be buying 20k of any one item. I ask because unless you want to buy something in massive quantities, there would be no reason that you need 100% accurate listings.

Even when spidy is telling you the supply and demand, the actual numbers don’t matter as much as the ratio between the 2. If it shows a supply of 50k and a demand of 200k, I would view it the same way as an item that says 40k and 160k. Both are the same ratio and both show that it is a really high-volume item.

I can understand why they changed it, I was just curious if other people saw the bug (change) too.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or an intentional change, but no matter what item you’re looking at, you can only see the lowest 20 prices for that item. No matter how many are listed at how many different prices, you will ONLY see the lowest 20.

It wasn’t in any of the patch notes, nor have I seen a dev comment on it, but this has been brought up in multiple threads.

Charismatic Harm.9683:

I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or an intentional change, but no matter what item you’re looking at, you can only see the lowest 20 prices for that item. No matter how many are listed at how many different prices, you will ONLY see the lowest 20.

It wasn’t in any of the patch notes, nor have I seen a dev comment on it, but this has been brought up in multiple threads.

I wasn’t sure about that. Thanks for confirmation