I engage in market flipping and have been buying and selling some commodities quite frequently. As such, I am well acquainted with the prices, and keep a note of the prices I buy and sell at.
Last night, the Black Lion Trading Company went down with an error 502, for about half an hour. When it came back, huge volumes of orders by others for the commodities I buy and sell had disappeared. Subsequently, the order prices had dropped to about a third of their previous values. Since this point, there has been a steady decrease in the price to buy instantly these items.
I’m wondering if anyone else saw this, and if anyone knows why it happened. Was it an Arenanet action against bots? I’m not hugely upset by it as an integral part of market trading is risk, but I’m just curious as to why it happened.
Best regards,
Laukei