Guild Wars 2

My mates and I were discussing the trading post and how annoying it is sometimes to buy many things on the trading post.

What I mean by “many things” is, say I want to buy an entire set of assassin’s gear but I don’t know if I have enough gold perhaps. There is no “checkout” feature on the trading post for me to put them all in a basket to see what it would cost.

Now I know I can just do the math and if I don’t have enough gold I probably shouldn’t spend it, but maybe I want to see what all the mats for an item I would like to make would cost all at once, the feature would be useful here as well.

At the end of the day I realise we can all just add it up ourselves and I know the issues anet could face with making the feature considering you would be buying from multiple people and if you don’t buy fast enough the TP will sometimes fail to buy because of supply and price but hey it just came up in a conversation and I thought to myself that’s not a terrible idea.

Let me know what the rest of you think, could it work? Would it be a feature you’d enjoy or would it just make the TP more confusing for you? Have you got a better idea to buy multiple different items?

I’d love to hear a Dev’s perspective on the subject.

Maybe if once its in the basket the item is hidden, so it would not be taken by other buyers, but if you don’t buy it your basket expires after around 5 minutes and its automatically made visible again on the TP.

As its just being hidden it wouldn’t actually be removed/relisted.

I’m kind of fine the way it works now and I hear there’s going to be an update to the TP anyhow but I wouldn’t mind a “Place in basket” feature.

I wouldn’t mind a checkout / buy cart feature. It’s kind of annoying always needing to have a calculator next to my PC.

That and can we buy more than 250 of each item for each listing? It’s really annoying when you want to buy over 250+ of each item. If I want to order around 1000 orichalcum ore, I don’t want to place the order 4 times.

John.8507:

Maybe if once its in the basket the item is hidden, so it would not be taken by other buyers, but if you don’t buy it your basket expires after around 5 minutes and its automatically made visible again on the TP.

As its just being hidden it wouldn’t actually be removed/relisted.

Won’t happen. This would require HUGE changes to the code of TP. All that for something that is quite… useless, really.

@OP: Anet made something just for you!

@none.9681

Heh, yeah suppose I used a pretty silly example but the idea is still the same.

@John.8507

Yeah, I thought about this too, but I figured it would be too much effort for such a fine detail, I don’t mind the partially successful/ failed to purchase mechanic and it seems like it wouldn’t be too much hassle for multiple different items, they already have it for stacks of the same item

Due to the way trading works, any item in your “cart” would just be a snapshot, making the sum incorrect when you actually hit the “buy” button.

This is because someone else could have already bought the items in your cart and the next one was listed higher or lower.

CodeHavoc.7926:

I’m kind of fine the way it works now and I hear there’s going to be an update to the TP anyhow but I wouldn’t mind a “Place in basket” feature.

They shouldn’t have a place in basket feature, you’re buying from other players not a store.

Items come and go all the time, holding onto the items in a basket would be unfair to the player selling.