Instant buy | pros and cons

Can anybody tell me what is the issue to have “buy now” button on the trade site?

Im not asking for auction house, just a buy now to save millions and millions nerve cells of many players

think of the vision, man!

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Mephisto23#6790 написал:

think of the vision, man!

"To hell with The Vision!™ I'll-.. " *argh!*

The Vision: "Nothing personal kid."

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Jagdkommando90#7200 написал:

Can anybody tell me what is the issue to have “buy now” button on the trade site?

Im not asking for auction house, just a buy now to save millions and millions nerve cells of many players

there is no issue, we have buy now option but its at parallel universe so please use that one and stop whining :p

why we dont have it here in this universe, i think its becouse... no idea. there is no reason for not to have it.

Bet it's because there's no mechanism in place to hand-off items between characters on different "instances".

i.e. your instance is run on a server somewhere in [the Antarctic], it isn't allowed talk to my instance in [Europe], so the only way we can trade is to join the same instance: by us joining in a party and then one of us connecting to the others server-instance using that "relocate to party lead" button. There's no way then that a player could be lifting the Astramentis out of storage in to their inventory just as you're buying it.

Just a guess mind you, I don't really know how it works. But I wouldn't be surprised if our mini-instances all talk with big brother, which is then farmed out to another server that you can query via API (e.g. trade site). But p2p all has to be done in the same instance.

I think there's something special about having to interact with another player to get the item, adds a feeling of community/scarcity. I get that most people probably don't care about that though.

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Direfell#7544 написал:

I think there's something special about having to interact with another player to get the item, adds a feeling of community/scarcity. I get that most people probably don't care about that though.

Interact?

You press a button on the website and either they invite you or they don't respond at all. Then you teleport to them and wait for a trade request *click click* and you're on your way.

Although even the invite part might randomly happen about 15 minutes later.

Rarely you will get a response along the lines of can you wait a bit or the item is sold. Although to get a response it's most commonly asking if you'll pay more for a fixed price item.

It's not really all that interactive.

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Antarious#5648 написал:

Interact?

You press a button on the website and either they invite you or they don't respond at all. Then you teleport to them and wait for a trade request *click click* and you're on your way.

Although even the invite part might randomly happen about 15 minutes later.

Rarely you will get a response along the lines of can you wait a bit or the item is sold. Although to get a response it's most commonly asking if you'll pay more for a fixed price item.

It's not really all that interactive.

Like I said, most people don't care about it. But I've had different experiences than what you've described. Sometimes they end up touring my hideout and invite me to see theirs.

And its not solely about the interacting, its the friction that makes things feel tangible. Im not just opening a digital store page to purchase everything needed to beat the game. Im acquiring items found/made/held by another player.

defending non-sense with non-sense argument is just to cover non-sense game desing.

if there is no balance,

if the RNG is not there but its just Casino

every argument what defends current trade system is to cover up for non-sense game design.

Would you rather have trade disabled and find everything yourself as a true game should be? trading makes the game easier, much easier but you know what make the game even easier than that? buying items directly with 100% convenience, it makes the game obsolete and pointless in no time. And no there's in comparion to WoW, it's apples and oranges.

You will get bored in no times if you buy directly your gear without effort/friction/annoyance, they don't want you to acquire gear with ease, you're playing a loot/grinding game, remember? it's the whole point of the game.