Guild Wars 2

It isn’t so much the fact that they are “updating us on the issue on Twitter” that is a problem for me as it is that the last update was 7 hours ago and basically says “Yeah we took that thing down. We’’l bring it up one of these days and let you know”. That’s pretty pro right there. You can’t say that here? And on FB? and in Your Reddit thread? Or have it posted on the "down for maintenance splash screen? Or the news feed on the launcher? Maybe just a picture of Rytlock stepping on the throat of a TP vendor?

Based on the relatively low cash rewards for completing events, hearts and zones I think it is safe to assume that the game is not designed with the intention of folks having a great deal of excess cash on hand. In fact without the TP it was extremely difficult for my first 80 to have enough gold to buy their order set at level 80. By comparison my primary alt has enough gold at level 39 to buy her whole order set by using the TP to sell everything. Reducing the market size would over inflate the value of the mats I gather. Force crafters to charge more to profit on crafted items and essentially leave players who are not heavy “players” in the TP economy out in the cold due to a lack of easy cash outside of the TP system. One could argue “well they just need to gather and sell on the TP” but that is forcing a grind on them. Something ANet has gone to great lengths to eliminate as much of as they can.