Guild Wars 2

raphaeldisanto.5478:

roocey.7501:

I would love this. I almost exclusively play with a buddy. When one of us gets an upgrade for the other, we have to go through the mail system even though we’re standing right next to each other. As others have said, it’d also be nice to just have a secure place to trade with others outside of the Trading Post.

Let’s see.

To trade with another player, you right click, select trade. A window comes up and you drop the item in it, then you click “Trade”

To mail to another player, you right click, select mail. A window comes up and you drop the item in it, then you click “Mail”

I don’t see the mechanical difference, or why it’s more effort to “go through the mail system”

I do agree that it removes a potential for scamming, when you can’t see whether the guy is going to give you your 5s for that sword or not.

The way I see it, use the Trading Post for selling items to players you don’t know, put it up for auction, I LOVE IT!

However, let’s say you have a new guild member who says he’ll pay you 10s for a stack of copper, well, you’re past the point of using copper, so sure, why not. You mail him the copper, he puts it in the bank, puts you on the ignore list, and leaves the guild. You don’t get a single copper from him. Sure, you can report him, but with more important things like exploiters and botters, I really doubt that a single 10s scam will be top of their ban list.

Hence, Trading. You put in 250 Copper Ore, he puts in 10s, you accept, he accepts, BAM free trade between 2 players.

The mail system is great for messaging offline players, I’ve used it for that purpose plenty of times, but for trading, the system is severely flawed. OP is asking for a seperate window, that will allow you to trade similar to the way trading was done in GW1, that system was perfect. If they edited their offer, it let you know. You could see everything they put in, and you could go over the menu, to make sure you weren’t scammed. Really, the only way to be scammed with GW1 Trade was if you didn’t check their offer and they gave you something with the same inventory skin as what you offered. Or you didn’t pay attention and they gave you gold instead of plat.