Guild Wars 2

I know this has come up before, but given that it is also currently under discussion in the Preview thread asking that all armour previews be restored.. I figured it was time to post it under a separate topic.

So as the title asks, when will we be able to preview items in the TP? We can already preview items at armour/weapon vendors, karma vendors and in our own inventories; is it really THAT difficult to extend the same function to the TP? Just about every other MMO (most of which were released years ago) I have played allows you to preview items in the auction house, and for a game like this one.. that is so heavily focused on cosmetics, it really makes no sense at all that we can’t.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the TP existing across all servers causes an issue. I can’t imagine why this would be the case, but, then again, I’m no programmer.

I know it’s not exactly what you are looking for, but you can copy the ingame link from a site like

http://www.gw2spidy.com/

to your ingame chat to preview any item on the Trading Post.

That is good to know, thanks!

Still though….. it really should not be necessary to do something like this. It’s near the end of 2012, and games that came out years ago have unlimited preview.

Well yeah, but it’s a fresh game.

They’ve been steadily adding these little QoL type things, I’m sure we’ll get it soon.

Karizee.8076:

Well yeah, but it’s a fresh game.

They’ve been steadily adding these little QoL type things, I’m sure we’ll get it soon.

Oh I know it is, and I don’t typically whine about things, in part because of that
As much as anything I am just perplexed as to why this is possible at vendors and in our inventories, but not in the TP.
I mean, I could understand it, were Preview not a feature at all. I’d just assume they had not gotten around to the coding. However, to have it on everything except the TP just strikes me as odd.

I remember reading somewhere that the Trading Post doesn’t use the regular ingame code, that it’s some kind of web app.

Don’t ask me details though, I do not understand this tech stuff, haha.

Hmmm… maybe it is indeed related to the TP being central to all servers then…
But I am no techie either, so it is all just speculation

Anyway, thanks, and that spidey thing is definitely a viable work-around until it is implemented in-game.