Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I just recently started playing with my family (4 of us in total) and had a couple of things I wanted to suggest. Both are with regard to trading between players and the fact that you can only do it through the mail system. I’ll describe each one in the way we encountered it and found frustrating and then make a couple of recommendations at the end.

1. Message Limit

We all picked different crafting skills so we could provide each other with items as we went through the game. We quickly realized that there is a limit on the number of times we can send out mail. For instance, if I make bags for them and then want to send it to each of them that’s 3 mails. Later, I come across something that another could use while questing so I send it to them (or try to) and get the message about how I can’t do that for spam reasons.

2. Item exchange limit

So I paid the $10 for some gems, changed them into gold and went to divide that up between the four of us. However, when I tried to send the mail I got an error message saying that the transfer would exceed the total value of transfers allowed for new accounts.

In both cases I would have just traded directly with the others however that is not an option. With the above two issues I can’t trade things with my family either and it’s a frustrating experience.

Suggestion

Remove some of the mail restrictions when sending mail to people on your friends list or in your guild (we always have a family guild that we use). We could just use the guild bank but until we are able to get enough influence points that’s not really an option.

OR

Allow player trading.

Happier Note

So far we have enjoyed the game (been about a week for 2 of us, a few days for the others). This is just the one item that has caused some frustration over the last day or two.

Thanks for your time,

Those are there to make it harder for spammers and gold sellers and what not. So, it probably will not be changed easily.

Once you get the golds going, use more of the ingame Black Lion Trading. And it’s not so hard making gold in this game.

Pyrasia.9281:

Those are there to make it harder for spammers and gold sellers and what not. So, it probably will not be changed easily.

Once you get the golds going, use more of the ingame Black Lion Trading. And it’s not so hard making gold in this game.

The thing is, she’s just talking about sharing crafting goods with her friends. Not selling.

So like friend A will handle cooking, she’ll handle armorsmithing, and friend B will handle weaponsmithing. And they’ll share their goods among themselves.

Trading Post doesn’t really work that way.

Sometimes it helps to see the different user stories to better understand the problem which is why I posted. To me it’s more helpful then just saying “Change X to do Y”. My intent was to provide a different perspective and my thoughts on how it could be improved.

Seera is correct. That is exactly what we were trying to do. While sending of gold will eventually just resolve itself the trading goods between friends is one that I hope there is some sort of adjustment for in the future.

The problem is the more they loosen it for those of who play by the rules, the higher percentage of gold sellers will get through for a longer time.

Whether they have the settings for the suppression at the best level for keeping gold sellers low and players not inconvenienced is another story. And one we won’t know the answer to unless ANet decides to speak up on the matter.