Guild Wars 2

I suspect that the currency exchange interface is clunky by design to try to prevent automated price tracking. If this is not the case, I’d like to suggest some improvements to make it less painful to deal with so that I am more likely to throw money at you.

Please list the current exchange rate. I’m fine with you listing a small range for this rate, or telling me what the rate was a few hours ago, or requiring me to push a button or enter a captcha to find the rate. Give me a ballpark number, please. I don’t like the guess-and-check method just to get an idea of the price for 100 gems.

Please either list the max, min, and average down to CP or remove the CP field. I can tell you’re rounding, and I don’t mind that. I mind that there’s a field for cp that you clearly aren’t using – it’s always rounded to the nearest silver. You could probably snip off the field for gp until it is actually needed, too. Showing all those zeros is bad form.

The graph: Please rescale the window if this is supposed to be something players should be able to read. The Y-scale is huge compared to the fluctuations; instead, the scale should reflect the range of variation in the graph closely. Simplify your labels on the X-axis and please make them accurate. For me, at least, the X-axis shows data that is listed for future times, so I assume it’s probably off by a couple hours for some reason. The graph colors don’t contrast well and the graph seems to be partially transparent, which makes it even harder to read. My colorblind room mate can’t read the thing at all, and I am tired of squinting at it to try to describe current trends to him.

If you’re going to keep ~5 days worth of data on the graph, give us some eye-guiding marks across the screen for major ticks on the Y-axis. I’d like to see a line for every silver or possibly every 2 silver going all the way across the graph, so I can actually gauge price fluctuations.

If you’re super-concerned about people automatically reading this data, then just don’t give it to us at all.