Guild Wars 2

Would be very nice to have those long numbers that appear in the Trading Post, such as # of listings, to be comma-delimited.

Much easier to read:
1,234,567

than:
1234567

While I personally agree that the numbers would be easier to read, they can’t implement this in a simple manner.

The trading post is shared across all servers (as far as I know). The use of commas like that is strictly an American custom. In Europe, they use commas when we would use decimal points, and they use decimal points when we would use commas. We write the number ten thousand down as 10,000.00 and they would write it as 10.000,00. What’s sensible to you and me would look bizarre to the Europeans, and vice versa.

This is also likely why the game spells out exactly how much something costs with fields for gp, sp, and cp instead of presenting it in decimal form.

I’m sure they could put in a workaround that displayed numbers differently based on some criteria, but it’s not a simple matter of assuming anyone who speaks English will prefer the American way or that only the European servers will want to see numbers in the European style.

Sparkie.3465:

While I personally agree that the numbers would be easier to read, they can’t implement this in a simple manner.

The trading post is shared across all servers (as far as I know). The use of commas like that is strictly an American custom. In Europe, they use commas when we would use decimal points, and they use decimal points when we would use commas. We write the number ten thousand down as 10,000.00 and they would write it as 10.000,00. What’s sensible to you and me would look bizarre to the Europeans, and vice versa.

This is also likely why the game spells out exactly how much something costs with fields for gp, sp, and cp instead of presenting it in decimal form.

I’m sure they could put in a workaround that displayed numbers differently based on some criteria, but it’s not a simple matter of assuming anyone who speaks English will prefer the American way or that only the European servers will want to see numbers in the European style.

It really isn’t difficult to base the display of the numbers on your current regional settings in Windows. In fact it’s relatively easy.

Risotto.7309:

It really isn’t difficult to base the display of the numbers on your current regional settings in Windows. In fact it’s relatively easy.

Even easier, base them off the server the users are playing in. EU vs US.