Guild Wars 2

I’m curious as to what they are, the economy seems pretty stable even though there’s a massive influx of new players, so I’m assuming things like t6 mats are off limits to them, and what not?

nobody seems to go into detail about what f2p can or can’t buy/sell on the trading post; so does anyone know the specific restrictions?

All base materials are tradeable. But anything beyond is not. For example they cannot buy or sell planks, only logs.

They can buy bags for the three bag slots they have, any size. but it must be the basic bag. Invis, craftsman etc. are not available.

The most annoying restriction is not being able to buy or sell sigils or runes.

Named weapons/armor (as well as anything with filled upgrade slot) are off limits.

There are more, but these I remember offhand.

Very little gear can be purchased or sold, except for the basic ones that can be crafted at every 5 levels.
So the only way they can make any money off the market is by selling gathered crafting materials or selling crafted items, if you can even make money doing that.
Id guess you would make more off the actual materials.

Any random drop gear can only be used personally or salvaged, none of it can be sold.

I imagine one positive result of this would be a larger market for crafted gear since that’s all they can buy.

i think rune/sigil thing would be less annoying if you actually could craft those good/endgame runes/sigil (like strength runes, if you want full set as f2p, pray rngesus to get good drops). and apparently to get even exotic amulet(since ascended is offlimits) is to get jeweller up to 400 and pray for ruby orb drops.

If I remember correctly they can not buy or sell any ascended crafting materials either.

It’s a real nuisance for those who would use free accounts to assemble armies of bots to accumulate massive amounts of gold to sell for real money.

Which is, of course, the point.

thank you all for going into detail, been bothering me since game became f2p but it really does look like they won’t influence economy too much which is good.

Xbon.9086:

thank you all for going into detail, been bothering me since game became f2p but it really does look like they won’t influence economy too much which is good.

Yeah, last week I saw an influx of toons with “asdfxccdr” type names, and my first thought was "wow. They’re in for a rude awakening, lol. I haven’t seen any this week yet.
They probably figured it out already and have moved on.

Majic.4801:

It’s a real nuisance for those who would use free accounts to assemble armies of bots to accumulate massive amounts of gold to sell for real money.

Which is, of course, the point.

That applies to the sales and item/gold transfer limitations, not so much to the purchase limitations. Those are there just to force people to buy the game.

I hope anet is keeping an eye on the TP and will take countermeasures if anything fluctuates wildly.

Can you imagine the screams from sellers if suddenly iron dropped to be less than copper?

My 11 year old has a f2p account, and the TP is very limited as discussed above. The great thing is though I can send him anything. He was so happy to get a couple of 18 slot bags in the mail!

The buying restrictions boggled me. Apparently a Veteran player isn’t allowed to make coin off an FTP player. Hardly balanced.

Don’t expect a lot of t6 sales from FTP, as they are gated from Laurels.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Don’t expect a lot of t6 sales from FTP, as they are gated from Laurels.

You do not need laurels to get T6s. Even doing the daily miner or taking a jog through southsun can net you some ori.

Menadena.7482:

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Don’t expect a lot of t6 sales from FTP, as they are gated from Laurels.

You do not need laurels to get T6s. Even doing the daily miner or taking a jog through southsun can net you some ori.

ori ain’t even the problem, it’s quite easy to farm vials of powerful blood in certain locations, same with armored scales.