Guild Wars 2

This is very minor, but would certainly be a quality of life improvement.

When you make a purchase on the Trading Post, but the purchase failed due to someone else buying the item before you could hit “Buy Instantly”, the gold is taken from your purse, and then placed into the delivery box.

This means that if you fail to buy something due to someone else buying the item(s) first, you do not have immediate access to that gold that you would have spent, but actually did NOT spend. If this brings your balance below the cost of the item, you have to access a Black Lion Trader to obtain your refunded gold before attempting to purchase the item again.

The suggestion for improvement is to not have the gold deducted from the player’s balance to begin with. If the item ‘no longer exists’, then don’t deduct the gold. Keep the gold in the player’s inventory rather then forcing the player to travel to a Delivery Box to get their refund.

Usually it’s not a big deal, but if a player is not near a trader, and is trying to make larger or bulk purchases, this can become a quality of life issue, distracting the player from enjoyable gameplay.

I don’t see any balance issues arising from this fix, either.

If there are underlying issues that may arise from a developer standpoint for this suggestion, then an alternative is to return the gold via mail, not a delivery box.

Meanwhile… if the tp lags and you hit sell it will often sell at merchant value to the buyer and give them the difference back….

I would guess that the implementation of the TP requires the money to be sent first to validate it is the correct amount. Then because the item doesn’t exist any more they can’t return the money straight back because the only way to return items to you from the TP is to return all items currently stored there. Which while it may be ok you’d get some weird edge cases where someone has items waiting to be picked up and they fail a to buy something but their inventory is full. It would create a weird and awkward bug to deal with. Of course all that is just speculating on what the current limitations are on the TP. I’m sure it’s possible for them to create your suggestion. But I reckon they would have already if it were that straight forward.