I can't stand the guild trader system. It's the worst way to sell things that I've seen in an mmo. We shouldn't have to join a guild just to be able to sell things to other players, especially those who don't sell full time. It should be an open auction house system where the market is the competition.

I had to leave a guild because I was losing money just to belong - it didn't start that way, it was because some other high pressure guilds starting bidding on our trader. Then more and more money was needed to stay there. Thankfully there are guilds that are low pressure and without fees.

I'd just like to point out that I'm not a stoke broker, not an investment banker. I run a trade guild because it gives me something else to do in the game - an added dimension of enjoyment in a fantasy game that I've enjoyed playing for ten years.

I make a very significant in-game loss doing so, forcing me to trade in the game sufficiently to fund my trader bids. That's OK too, because I enjoy buying and selling, farming, and generally mooching about making in-game gold.

Guilds are the lifeblood of Elder Scrolls Online. The people who run them are almost all relatively selfless individuals who enjoy gaming, who want to enjoy more of what the game has to offer. They facilitate the content that ZoS designs, from Trade to Trials, from PVP to Housing. And guess what? If you don't like how a guild is run, you can leave and join another. And if you can't find a guild that's run the way you would run it, you can establish your own guild.

Best of luck out there.

shadyjane62 wrote: »

They should just get rid of the guild trading system. 10 years I have hated it and refused to use it.

The Auction House is the only thing I miss from WoW.

10 years and it has worked just fine. an auction house would ruin it.

I dislike the guild trader system and usually refuse to even use it...

- Everyone should be able to list and sell their items without the requirement of being in a guild with a trader. There are more guilds than there are traders, so there's a lot of players who are in guilds but are not able to sell their items because their guild doesn't have a trader.

- Running around all of Nirn and searching the different guild traders for items is lame. I value my time and will not waste it by running around looking for items. I'd rather either farm for the items myself or just do without them.

- There should be a way in-game to search for all item listings, an item's average listing/selling price, and where each trader is located. All of this information is stored on ZOS servers, so why can't they just give it to us in-game. I do not want to depend on a third-party website just to look for item listings, because sometimes the items are not actually at the guild trader and it just wastes time going to look for them, and from what I've seen there is no way to get an item's average selling price.

For years players (on PC) have been charging way too much for items at their guild traders (I believe crown gifting/trading and Gold sellers are the main cause of this). And this "crash" has been long overdue because the inflation has ran rampant for far too long. Not long ago people were bragging about how much Gold they had and were making, then they were complaining that there wasn't anything to spend the Gold on, and now they're complaining that they're not making as much Gold as they were before... whomp whomp.