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Anonymous
11 years ago

Re: "Black Friday Stampede" style trading system - COMPLETELY broken

there is also a post about this in the support part of this forum, and lots of people did react..
except someone of EA..they dont.. they only do react on posts with questions about lost stuff.. so they choose not to react..

everybody hates the current situation, but the people who can do something about it apparently not.. #boohoo

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  • ravendarkstorm's avatar
    ravendarkstorm
    11 years ago
    A lack of a EA rep replying to a thread doesn't mean lack of caring or action. Assuming, in the context of a game that is both played on tablets and phones, they would change the feature it will take some time to design a change before coding and then implementing it. Then factor in any other fixes and content priorities that may be more pressing than an overhaul of the system. In other words I don't expect to see anything change in the immediate to near future. My opinion would have been to leave the system out of the game in the first place to come up with something better. Unfortunately the system is there now and removing it completely to do so would be a mistake.
  • Elenoe's avatar
    Elenoe
    11 years ago

    1) WOW auction is not best example of trading platform as it is exactly same useless junk

    2) EA games don't change in this, so deal with it. They have to have some EA guidance for this because it is statistically improbable so many developers being that dumb to introduce system seen in this game

    Good trading system can be seen in EVE Online and newly on Steam Market (for generic items). And it resembles the system used for stock market. Easier one to implement. Powerfull for trading. It introduces buy/sell orders for any amount and price.

    One chooses commodity and see amounts others want to buy or sell. There is no info on how many who is selling. All you see is how many for what price is available, merged together. You just place an order for an amount and price and wait until someone place opposite order for the same price.

    It's terribly easy to code, easy to handle, and it covers all needs for buying or selling items.

  • ravendarkstorm's avatar
    ravendarkstorm
    11 years ago
    Yes EVE system is the same kind of system seen in GW2. I've never seen or heard of a better trading system available in any other game right now. You get to see all that is for sale everywhere all in one place. No hunting for someone selling the specific thing you are looking for. Sometimes I wonder if those behind the scenes on these things do research to see what is best before they move into the design and code stages of development. Not trying to be harsh to the devs of this game but more of a general observance because it happens in a lot of new titles that come out that have poor design in one or more features.

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