Better Trade System - abandon all your hope after reading latest QA

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Dawmz wrote:

But then again, what can they do against it ?

Design in-game tools required to play the newly introduced features properly? In this case a "global world overview" of endgame maps hierarchy.

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morbo wrote:

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Dawmz wrote:

But then again, what can they do against it ?

Design in-game tools required to play the newly introduced features properly? In this case a "global world overview" of endgame maps hierarchy.

You don't understand. They could do a poetempest or warbands tracker in game easily, but they don't want to.
They want you to interact with other players, to communicate about tempest/warbands in your guild chat, in global channels, in your status message, etc.. And they achieved that. At the same time, they can't do anything against the inevitable 3rd party sites, even if those sites are reducing their initial objective.
The way to play "properly" these leagues as intended is not to go see a 3rd party site, or a official GGG tracker about which tempest is where, it is to work with other players and collaborate with them to find the good stuff.

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Dawmz wrote:

You are reading a lot into chris' words to make your point. Expecting the community to "collaborate" just means what it says : they expected people to talk about the active tempest warbands between themselves through various communication channels, be it in game or out of the game.

Oh c'mon, Dawnz.

Give Chris some credit, how out of touch do you think he is?

'expected people to talk about the active tempest warbands between themselves through various communication channels' and not expecting that to be completely shadowed in effectiveness by a 3rd party site in this day and age is about as naive as creating a full free trade style game from 15 years ago, today, whith the only trade restriction being inconvenience, saying you want trading to not be easy and then not expecting a 3rd party auction house to pop up.

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Dawmz wrote:

I don't think they really like the 3rd party sites since they go against communication / players interaction, which is something they want to happen. But then again, what can they do against it ?

You haven't heard Chris praise these sites on several occasions?

Go listen to podcasts, interviews, read up.

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peachii wrote:

There was never, ever going to be an AH.

I'm sure they will eventually be able to afford a trade upgrade on the forums but time, tech, staff and funds are limiting at the moment.

Why would you care at all , you haven't even played the end game yet .

I'm honestly happy with this. A community driven economy will always be superior to one controlled by the devs.