And this is why you don’t wait until after the last day to do these things. Even if we hadn’t been told you still have no one to blame but yourself. In this case we were told a couple times.
Even though they did announce this, unless you’re following dev posts on the forums religiously, it’s easy to miss.
The communication for a lot of stuff like this has really not been what it should and it’s also getting really annoying to have a bunch of new items added every patch that may be useful or may not be useful later on.
So much of living stories has becoming figuring out what to do with all the crap that ends up in your bags every 2 weeks. =(
From my experience with living story events I have found that it is always in my best interest to check on what happens to story event items at least a few days before the end of the event. It is never a good idea to look into such things after the event ends.
You should hold on to them until you see the merchant that is mentioned in the patch notes. Personally hoping I can exchange my leftover cypher scraps, heirlooms, etc.
Trading
Rumors tell of a merchant interested in items from major events in Tyria’s recent history, including Blade Shards. Players are encouraged to hold on to these items if they are interested in trading with her when she appears.
Thanks ArenaNet! It makes perfect logic to remove those vendors even if rest of camp is still intact. Now I’m left with thousands of useless stuff. No, I’m not visiting forums frequently.
Thanks again <3
They said on here. I think it was said in one of the various articles that got thrown around. ‘Have things done by the 18th’ That said loud and clear (to me) have stuff done and taken care of on the 17th because it’d all be gone (as per normal) by the time I got home from work on the 18th.
shrug
Although, I don’t think it would have hurt to leave the collectors a day or two longer. Unless they’d have to manually update to remove them at a later date (such a pain), at which point I completely understand.
Either way though, I was all squared away last night.
Might end up grumpy over this new trader though…depending on what they offer for what previous items. I finally cleaned out all that junk.
Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.
I’m going ot wait to see the new vendor before I trash anything. To be honest, I’ve been hanging on to my leftovers ever since the Council Election episode, where you got to sell your leftover tickets for cash afterwards. Haven’t trusted them not to pull that kind of stunt again…
Trading
Rumors tell of a merchant interested in items from major events in Tyria’s recent history, including Blade Shards. Players are encouraged to hold on to these items if they are interested in trading with her when she appears.
Items?….major events?…….plural?
Hmmm I think I may find out I regret deleting two stack of evon support buttons to make room for blade shards.
At the same time they mentioned getting rid of that stuff on the 18th they also said to keep your blade shards. The new vendor doesn’t want heirlooms or found items, just blade shards. If you didn’t cash them in by now they’re wasted junk in your inventory.
I’m sorry, but there is absolutely no reason to remove the found belongings vendors. I still have plenty of those left to turn in, but I forgot to do that yesterday. Plenty of past vendors have stuck around after their event ended. Such as that Sound the seller guy (who is now at the vigil keep).
I do not see in the past patch notes anything about that the vendor will disappear on the 18th. If it is going to disappear, then this is very important information that should be in the patch notes. There is no excuse to not have this critical information there.
so i saved 1900 belongings. and you just REMOVED the merchants? why?
The event is over, they announced the merchants would be removed multiple times over the past 10 days or so, not their fault you didn’t spend your belongings.
so i saved 1900 belongings. and you just REMOVED the merchants? why?
The event is over, they announced the merchants would be removed multiple times over the past 10 days or so, not their fault you didn’t spend your belongings.
but why… there’s this sonder the seller guy that sells other living story stuff. why couldn’t he deal with belongings too?
I speak for myself, not for my server or my guild.
Solo roamer, all classes.
so i saved 1900 belongings. and you just REMOVED the merchants? why?
The event is over, they announced the merchants would be removed multiple times over the past 10 days or so, not their fault you didn’t spend your belongings.
“Announced”
Oh, you mean the topic on their announcement section on the forums? Or do you mean one of the many obscured / buried posts? And not, you know, as dialogue from the merchants, as an in-game mail, as an announcement on the launcher’s page. Oh right, silly people don’t realize in order to know about what’s happening in-game, they have to leave the in-game world to browse the forums.
“Excuse me Mr. Ice Cream man, what flavors do you have?”
“Well if you go to our website and check under the menu section…”
Some people are busy playing the game and deserve to have the information conveyed to them in-game. Wouldn’t be hard for an in-game mail to be sent saying “Ohey, these merchants are nearly done collecting belongings.” People on the forums make up a very, very small part of the playerbase.
Well, thankfully I heard about this and turned mine in.
But still, yeah, this is kind of a dumb way to handle these things – there is really no logical reason why the vendors have to be removed right away at the end of an event. It is, frankly, just rude to do something you don’t have to do, that does nothing but inconvenience players and that you know is going to tick off a lot of people who didn’t get the info.
I see a thread like this every time another set of disposable content disappears. Really, people, have you not yet learned that you should be turning this stuff in BEFORE the last day of the patch?
DON’T DESTROY ANYTHING!!!! The patch notes mentioned a merchant will appear for LS items, including blade shards. It didn’t say that it was only for blade shards. Previous LS items may be traded as well. So DON’T destroy anything yet!
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