There are SO MANY different posts about the SAME issue, I decided to merger them together. Hopefully the development team will see this thread and make changes to the global trading market! And with all the posts being in one place make it easier on EA team to find them all.
Unbelievably poor implementation of GTHQ. One can only conclude that this is by design to frustrate players into spending cash. Especially after each update made it WORSE! Stupid part of all this is that if players could find what they need first try, the load on servers would drop dramatically. Instead we have to return 100-200 times just to get the one item we need. This kind of stupidity or manipulation, whichever it is, will prevent me from buying EA products in the future. Why risk ending up with cripple-ware or $ extraction, frustrating headaches. No wonder EA earned 'worst company' rating.
Well, it is getting worse. I just tried to buy three dozer blades. As usual the coins were taken, little wheel thing spins, moronic sorry message blaming llamas for EA incompetence is displayed. However, upon returning to my city, unlike times before, my coins were NOT refunded. Went to another seller and still missing 2400 coins. Anyone else had this happen?
@LeilaDawson wrote:
I've stopped playing this game for days at a time. I mean really? The only "update" they made is that instead of clicking on an item to see it's not there, when you get there it already says "SOLD" like why are you even listing it on the Global trade if it's already sold? How are people getting there so fast? In any case I need what? 8 of each item now to upgrade storage and they are impossible to get AND they take up inventory space. So that's 24 slots in order to just upgrade inventory. Then if I want to upgrade any sort of space (like buy land) that's more inventory taken up because you need at least 24-40 more slots in order to "save" to purchase land. I thought that this game was a cash grabbing scam before but now it's more clear than ever all they want is money.
@LeilaDawson -- I'm not going to defend EA on this issue because I've been complaining about it myself, including much earlier in this thread, but I will say that you only see an ad in the Global HQ if the item is available the moment it populates the list. In another thread, an EA rep stated that about 8 million transactions are being completed each day -- that's about 5500 per minute -- which is why an advertised item can be sold after it populates in your Global HQ but before you manage to get to the player's city and purchase it. In other words, it appeared in someone else's Global HQ a moment before it showed up in yours, and they got to it first. For high-demand items, this almost always happens to me, too. Displaying "Sold" just tells you that yes, it was there but someone beat you to it. Previously, we just found empty Trade Depot slots when this happened, which was also frustrating.
