Guild Wars 2

I just don’t get it, why would you take 10% from the profits + listing fees if you are not a real entity that will benefit from it?

before you people turn into economical critics, i just want to point out that not everything you buy is from the trading post, many other things have fixed prices that you have to pay regardless of the value of the currency (i.e and actual fixed number).

i can’t imagine the loss that people who sell precursors have to endure, 30g or something in a commission that is entirely meaningless.

Remember that Gold = Bucks because of the cash shop.

And this also prevents traders from making profits at TP.

There needs to be a gold sink in the game.. since the main source of trading is through the TP, that is the main gold sink in GW2. Just imagine if there were no system like this.. players would keep gaining gold with nothing taking gold out of the game. Eventually all items are going to be worth thousands of gold just because the rate of gold coming in to the game is much higher than the gold leaving the game (little to none?).
TLDR: Gold needs to enter and leave the economy for it to function correctly.

but but….i never have enough money for anything

only 10%? I thought it was 15%?

Astralporing.1957:

only 10%? I thought it was 15%?

it’s 15% But I believe he’s talking specifically about the 10% that isnt part of the listing price or whatever.

If there wasn’t a fee, there would be no difference between buy and sell price. People would flip until they became equal. Then there would be no point to having 2 prices.

The fees give us opportunities to find deals, and for that I’m grateful.

Only makes gap bigger between those who use tp for their needs and those that use it to profit.
I’d really rather chose where to sink my gold

Wait you think the TP flippers are happy about the fees? They are always the ones complaining about it.