Guild Wars 2

First, there should be an automated process to clean up the trading post from old items. Say anything thats been around for 2 weeks and nobody bought will be automatically returned to the player as if he canceled the sale.

Second, and a more detrimental change is this: When directly selling an item to a player who ordered it there should be no fee charged by the TP. Instead, players placing orders in the TP will be charged a fee for doing so. The fee for ordering will be significantly lower than the fee to put an item for sale of course, should be 3% or so? This will encourage orders to be fulfilled and discourage players from making orders without thinking.

On the first issue: No argument there.

On the second, that would just make things even more confusing for new players by making listing for a lower price earn more money. Especially when filling a buy order means they get more coin than vendoring, but listing a sell order doesn’t. Sure, ANET could fix this with a good interface design, but we are talking about a company that thinks the listing fee isn’t part of the ‘profit’ from selling an item.