Guild Wars 2

Accessing the trading post from anywhere breaks the economy. Imagine I am doing a dynamic event, and my inventory just filled up. I need to quickly clear out my inventory. I have one of those high value, non-collectable gems, so I quickly open up the trading post to sell it. It so happens that nobody is buying the gem, and there is a bit of a queue of people selling. I don’t want to be stuck in the queue, and I don’t really care about how much money I get, and just want to clear out my inventory, so I undercut the lowest seller.

Now imagine 1000s of people doing this.

And why is this bad? Individuals will always place different values on an item, changing the ease of access to sellers will not change this significantly.

Then the price will drop [i]until it is one copper above the highest buy order[/url]. Then everything stabilizes.

i have yet to see the problem, please tell me. cause i can’t imagine 1000s of ppl doing so neither it being a problem.

If you do it, be my guest, others are making/saving money on it then, and you should blame your self if you feel you have little money.

you can’t just leave the explanation with “now imagine 1000s of people doing this”

GW2 is about doing content. Having to go all the way back to town to unload your collectables and junk takes you out of the content. It’s a big reason why the game is the way it is.

Then the price will drop until it is one copper above the highest buy order. Then everything stabilizes.

While this does mean that there there is likely to be an increased supply of the item in the TP (as opposed to a system where the aforementioned player has to choose to trash the item, to hold on to it long enough to vendor it/place it on the nearest TP), I still don’t necessarily see this as a bad thing in and of itself.

Are you arguing that this needs to change so that supply of items on the TP is reduced? If so, explain how this would be better for the economy as a whole.

TheUnNamedHero.4167:

GW2 is about doing content. Having to go all the way back to town to unload your collectables and junk takes you out of the content. It’s a big reason why the game is the way it is.

Then Anet should add more vendors. That would solve the problem.

Deboog.1847:

TheUnNamedHero.4167:

GW2 is about doing content. Having to go all the way back to town to unload your collectables and junk takes you out of the content. It’s a big reason why the game is the way it is.

Then Anet should add more vendors. That would solve the problem.

There’s already plenty of vendors on each map. Hasn’t solved the “problem” yet.

It isn’t bad. It is simple supply and demand.

Take for example: Butter, when Anet increased demand for it by allowing it to be used in the Mystic Forge the price shot up despite the massive supply.; when they took it away it dropped to the minimum list-able price and it is still not moving very fast.

I personally don’t want to have to travel around with bags full, have to TP to a vendor or delete inventory. Whenever I can I do vendor low value items.

The real fix for this is to reduce drop rates (which would incite massive complaints) or increase demand. For example introduce new recipes using these oversupplied drops which create high value items.

It seems to me there’s only 1 person with this socalled problem, I on the other hand find it awesome you have access anywhere to sell items on the BLTC.. My collectibles are almost all full and I can just sell them when I for example mine some platinum ore.. In other words, this option of accessing the BLTC anywhere is very useful.

well not anyone’s foult , but yours.. u sell it to highest bidder just list it at the lowerst seller.. orso i do this it can be like 4z more and still sell almost instant. so i dont rlly see the point right here …

I don’t understand why folks think cheap goods on the TP is a bad thing. Selling things on the TP isn’t the only way to generate income, so it seems to me that having the stuff that is easy to find be really inexpensive is a good thing.

Decent wages + cheap, plentiful goods is part of a high standard of living.

Very few folks are going to put anything of real value on there for 1c over vendor, and even if they do, it will get snatched up right away and not hang around long enough to drop the price.

It so happens that nobody is buying the gem, and there is a bit of a queue of people selling.

So there’s no demand and a lot of supply?

Yep, price will (and absolutely should) go down in that case. And this has nothing to do with access from anywhere, since people can place buy orders from anywhere as well, so a complete lack of them means no one particularly wants this item. And they wouldn’t suddenly start wanting it in droves just because sellers have to walk all the way to a BLTC NPC to list it.

Hippocampus.8470
So there’s no demand and a lot of supply?
Yep, price will (and absolutely should) go down in that case. And this has nothing to do with access from anywhere, since people can place buy orders from anywhere as well, so a complete lack of them means no one particularly wants this item. And they wouldn’t suddenly start wanting it in droves just because sellers have to walk all the way to a BLTC NPC to list it.

And, Deboog, to add to Hippocampus’s point, perhaps this gem is not really “high value” if there are a lot for sale and no good offers. Perhaps it is merely “medium value”, on its way to “low value”.

While you are right that reducing TP access would overall raise prices somewhat on the market, because it makes it more inconvenient to bring things there, that has good effects for some (crafters) and bad effects for others (buyers who don’t craft). As long as Anet thinks there are more noncrafting buyers then crafters, they aren’t likely to change this.