Guild Wars 2

In light of the new change to pool all account gold in the Wallet (which I think is an overall GREAT idea), I am concerned as accidental purchase do happen (whether they are user click issues or caused by interface glitch / connection lag). In the past, these mistakes would be limited the amount of gold you had on the current character (potentially painful, but not something you couldn’t recover from). However, after the upcoming addition of the Currency Wallet update, you could potentially wipe out your entire game savings via this kind of mistake. I know for me, that would certainly make me consider no longer playing and at the very least, I would waste a lot of mine an Anet’s resources trying to get the mistake rolled back (despite any standing policy Anet claims….I’d have to try).

I do believe that most merchants now present a warning dialog when the purchase is over a certain amount (1 gold?), so I don’t really think these are huge concern as those warning dialog should be sufficient to halt mistaken purchases in all but the most extreme cases of player carelessness or some horrific lag storm. Also, very few Merchants sell VERY expensive items in any case.

HOWEVER, the TP has no such warning dialog and certainly has the potential for financial ruin level mistakes. In the past, simply not having enough gold on your character protected you from a potential mistake, but with the Wallet change, that will NOT be the case. ALL your money will be sitting at your disposal to accidentally purchase those precursors you were browsing….

I suggest that a similar dialog to the one for merchant purchases be put in place for the TP with maybe a user settable WARNING level so traders that deal in multi-gold purchase on a regular basis can avoid being annoyed to death by the dialog (or allow the TP warning to be enabled/disabled in settings).

I get that Anet should not be responsible for protecting people from their own accident prone stupidity, but believe me ANet, putting something like this in place is going to save you a WHOLE lot of headaches, Customer Service costs and potential customer loss in the long run. Per the forum, this is just a suggestion (and I DO love and appreciate the changes being provided with this Wallet update).

I also realize that a possible solution is a personal Guild and buying the influence to obtain the bank for a “Savings Account”. I have every intention of going this route assuming the current update plans (already created my Guild today), but I forsee lots of players that do not keep up with these kinds of changes that will not see the potential problem until it’s too late.

Give me a check box, to disable the warning after the first one, and I’m all for it. I generally don’t support things that protect others from their own stupidity, but if I’m given an option to opt-out of the warning, no problem at all.

I suspect this issue will be a hotter topic once it goes live and players realize the extent of the down-side of this update (Don’t get me wrong I applaud the idea of a currency wallet that can always be accessed by all characters).

Bank your gold and you don’t need to worry about spending it all. Plus it works you toward and achievement, so double gain.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Bank your gold and you don’t need to worry about spending it all. Plus it works you toward and achievement, so double gain.

They’re getting rid of the money part of the bank. Starting August 6th, there will only be one place where all of your account money is held, rather than the bank + each character’s inventory.