Guild Wars 2

Arena Net,

Please lift the 6 item sell cap. You know, the one that lets you sell 6 stacks, then requires you to wait about 10-12secs before you can sell another stack. This requires you to wait 60secs before you can sell another 6 items. This is stupid, I spend all my time playing the trading post and have to wait 60 secs to put up 6 more items if flipping annoying. It’s a kitten waste of my time. Please remove this.

Thanks.

If you are spending “all your time playing the trading post” You should really think about working at the stock exchange for fun.

John Smith +1

LOL, one of the most common names/alias’s.

John Smith.4610:

Think of the trading post as a whole. These restrictions aren’t made to inconvenience you.

Are the restrictions there for performance reasons, to reduce manipulation, or both ?

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

John Smith.4610:

Think of the trading post as a whole. These restrictions aren’t made to inconvenience you.

Are the restrictions there for performance reasons, to reduce manipulation, or both ?

Most likely performance issues. It appears every service/server ArenaNet has is overwhelmed and running at maximum capacity, WvW servers, normal map servers, login server, trading post servers, they all seem to be rather unoptimized and easily crash during max traffic hours

John Smith.4610:

Think of the trading post as a whole. These restrictions aren’t made to inconvenience you.

I understand but there are no limits on the number of buy orders I can do, so why the limit on sale orders? I find it hard to believe that your hardware cannot support it so it must be that you want demand to out pace supply. So, are these restrictions here so you can get a better return on gems sales by driving gold prices higher?

Currently 1 gold piece costs $1.61 to buy through gems. If ArenaNet can create artificial demand by allowing purchases to be made faster than orders can be listed then the price will go up on all items. What may have cost 1 gold piece, now costs 2 gold pieces, which you now have to pay $3.22 for.

John, did I guess right?

DemigoesRAWR.8701:

If you are spending “all your time playing the trading post” You should really think about working at the stock exchange for fun.

John Smith +1

LOL, one of the most common names/alias’s.

I’m a stock analyst irl, outside of PvP, “trading” is what I do for fun

Lol, then spend some of that money I blew on consortium chests and upgrade my man!

Logun.5360:

John Smith.4610:

Think of the trading post as a whole. These restrictions aren’t made to inconvenience you.

I understand but there are no limits on the number of buy orders I can do, so why the limit on sale orders? I find it hard to believe that your hardware cannot support it so it must be that you want demand to out pace supply. So, are these restrictions here so you can get a better return on gems sales by driving gold prices higher?

Currently 1 gold piece costs $1.61 to buy through gems. If ArenaNet can create artificial demand by allowing purchases to be made faster than orders can be listed then the price will go up on all items. What may have cost 1 gold piece, now costs 2 gold pieces, which you now have to pay $3.22 for.

John, did I guess right?

In what crazy scenario do all goods manage to inflate to double their nominal value without the Gold/Gems exchange rate moving?

Prices for most items have stabilized on the TP, so obviously there’s not an issue with demand significantly outstripping supply like you’re trying to imply. Without having actual data from the game (which I presume Mr. Smith might have) I’d imagine that the vast majority of TP transactions are driven by players who are not affected by any post cap. It’s only speculators and market manipulators who ever manage to butt up against the cap.

The TP throughout the game’s short history has had a lot of technical issues. This is just a mechanism to alleviate a few of those problems.