Guild Wars 2

apparently were capped at 500g, on a weekly basis, I found this out by my girlfriend mailing me 500g in 2 increments for my birthday, of my years of playing I had never knew this. so not only am I capped for this week, when I accept the 2nd mail im going to be capped for a 2nd week. now I can understand why they would do this. but it still feels a bit extreme.

ive played since launch so im not a free player, and ive also bought heart of thorns. so apparently all of us have this restriction.

Yes, we all have this restriction. This change was made a while ago, and although the intentions behind it are good, it does make life difficult for some players who like to mail trade or people in your situation. I have suggested before and will again here that the cap should be raised to a thousand gold, to accommodate people trading precursors or similar items, although it is not officially supported by Anet, it would make life a lot easier for a lot of people. I doubt it will be changed though as I think Anet have already said it would affect such a tiny minority of legit players it isn’t really worth worrying about.

Yep, we all have that restriction as a precaution against gold sellers. I remember when it was introduced. It was in the patch notes.

The bottom line is no one’s convenience comes before combating gold sellers. If people wouldn’t use them, we wouldn’t need restrictions like this.

Seems like they could introduce some kind of verification process, as the only gold seller here is anet themselves, I don’t mind waiting a week as gold is just that. however to know im restricted against receiving anything for 2 weeks now has me a bit aggravated. or perhaps a small pop up that says “you will be capped if you accept this ect”.

metal chill.8490:

Seems like they could introduce some kind of verification process, as the only gold seller here is anet themselves, I don’t mind waiting a week as gold is just that. however to know im restricted against receiving anything for 2 weeks now has me a bit aggravated. or perhaps a small pop up that says “you will be capped if you accept this ect”.

Gold sellers can also verify their accounts. Thus it would make the whole limitation completely pointless.

A verification process wouldn’t help because this is intended to hinder the people who buy gold from sellers, who are usually (aside from breaking the rules by buying gold) legitimate players. Proving that you are the person who bought and created your account, that you’ve had it for X months/years, that you’ve played for Y hours or whatever else you want them to verify doesn’t prove that you wouldn’t buy gold from illegal sellers and so doesn’t mean you should be exempt from the restriction.

However it is only a 1 week restriction. So unless you regularly receive more than 500g a week by mail it shouldn’t be a problem.

Announcement and reasoning

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Gold-Transfer-Changes/first#post4931494

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Gold-Transfer-Changes/page/5#post4933116