End of Guild Traders

craigr02

I'm just curious who would like to see these go away, and a new system like a public auction house established?

craigr02

I personally would like to see public auction house.

AlnilamE

I've always liked the guild traders. I find it immersive that you can go around and look for deals. I'm currently playing Black Desert as well and they have a "Marketplace" and it's pretty much what people said it would be like. There's tons of the easy cheap stuff, but anything a bit rarer (like some alchemy ingredients or the high-end weapons) you will never get before the bots beat you to it.

Volkodav

I happen to like my guilds.They all seem to have great a mounts of stuff.Both for sale and for use in the guild banks.I hope they dont go away.

Turelus

This is a new and refreshing thread, I can't believe no one thought to post about this before.

With a little less sarcasm now, it's not going to change craigr02. The threads debating this are probably in the triple digits now and ZOS still haven't moved at all on the subject. They like the system and enough people are using it and enjoying it for them to have no need at removing it.

ItsMeToo

Here we go again.

Teridaxus

Where is the popcorn?

Sunburnt_Penguin

It's not gonna happen.

Guild Traders take tens of millions of gold away from the players each week so it's arguably the biggest gold sink in the game. Without it, they'd have to find other ways of reducing our gold in order to prevent everyone getting richer and gold diminishing in value, exponentially increasing prices.

CreepySpydre

Having no public auction house in this game is one of its best features. I would even go further, you want to sell some thing then you have to go a location and peddle it yourself. Just like merchants on earth had to do in the same level of Tech. Or part of a merchant guild, like what's in the game now.

emily3989

It is annoying from certain perspectives. A few days ago I needed a specific items to make some food, could not find it after looking in a few towns, so I just went back to questing, harvested some along the way, then went and made the food when I had a short stack. It is definitely less convenient than most games but I actually like it in many respects. I do feel bad when I run into a guild trader in some remote place and they have pretty much nothing for sale though.

I do hate the sell spammers, which causes me to disable zone chat, people screaming "Selling 10 Iron Ingots (50g)" gets old quick.

Titansteele

Should threads of this topic be auto closed?

Answers on a postcard too #StopFloggingTheHorse

KaleidoscopeEyz

No thanks.

Appleblade

I'd like to search multiple guilds at once, maybe all the guild shops in the city you're in. Or stop resetting the search menu selections as I move shop to shop.

MaxwellC

I feel guild traders should be in place but they should have an auction house similar to Runescapes but it's not linked to guild traders. I'd hate to keep fighting prices of thousands of people instead of the many in my guild traders.

Now if they adopt a Runescape style auction house i.e. 'Grand Exchange' then that'll be awesome because you can sell it at any price but you won't see what others are listing theirs at thus resulting in the items being sold at various prices without having to fight under-cutters . They can even throw in statistics of each item being sold in the game so players can monitor what's going up/down.

Brrrofski

I like them.

Just wish there was a "repeat last search" option for when you want to search the next one.

idk

No and so glad guild traders are here to stay. Enjoy not having the lazy work out central AH. So boring.

I also find it hilarious that people leave a game to start something new and fresh but want that new game to be just like the old game.

Uriel_Nocturne

Another PAH thread?

*sigh*

*in monotone drone* There's nothing wrong with the Guild Traders, OP. They aren't going anywhere. They're fine as they are. Just because you can't afford ultra-rare or hard-to-get items, does not mean that they Guild Trader system is broken...

Man, I'm tired of seeing these threads.

Elsonso

craigr02 wrote: »

I'm just curious who would like to see these go away, and a new system like a public auction house established?

Not me.

But, thanks for asking. I am surprised it has been this long before someone thought to ask.

Beardimus

Nope, I prefer guild traders. A Tamriel ebay would be lore breaking surely if it was cross zone etc. I think it's good to out some graft in.

Be nice if your last search saved like in guild store. But I def don't want eBay auction house.

kylewwefan

Why does it always get referred to as an Auction House? I don't want to bid on anything. I would like to be able to see what every guild store in the game has to offer without traveling to all of them.

Guppet

I think they should keep the multiple kiosks. But, I think they should change it to faction capitals only and have a market square at each of them (they kind of do already).

There should be 10 stalls which are bid on and the winning bid lets thier guild list things for free, but non guildies can list for a percentage of the sale value, set by the guild that owns the kiosk.

They can't charge too much or you use a competitor.

Keeps the nice market place feel we have now, but puts it all in one place, while not excluding people not in the guilds that win the kiosks.

Maybe even bring it down to 5 stalls only per faction.

Ritzey01

I would love to see a more centralized trading system. I dont pretend to know what to put in place, but there has to be something better out there.

ThePonzzz

kylewwefan wrote: »

Why does it always get referred to as an Auction House? I don't want to bid on anything. I would like to be able to see what every guild store in the game has to offer without traveling to all of them.

I think this is what most people want at the end of the day. The guild stores in their current incarnation allow microcosm economies to exist, but when addons like DataDaedra and MasterMerchant were introduced, it took away that effect. And those addons are essential to anyone buying and selling in medium to high volumes. So the idea that items can be priced differently has slowly gone away. Deals still happen though. Not everyone uses those addons. Not everyone cares about economics though. Plus you have everyone trying to make gold and undercutting the next guy because most successful and high traffic guilds want you to be selling a certain number of items each week or you're kicked.

Couple that with killing V16 materials with Wrothgar and Hew's Bane, just moving inventory is difficult now. So when people just want the ability to see what's for sale everywhere, instead of spending an hour or so going to every trader looking for something stupid like columbine, it's not like we're asking for the world here.

Robbmrp

The advantage that a Public Auction house has over the Guild Traders is it keeps the players safe from greedy guild leaders. I'm not saying that they are all like that, but there are some who take gold contributed to the guild for bids and what not and use it for their own personal gain. A public Auction house would resolve this issue.

There are also guilds out there that tell you they have no selling requirements but then turn around and kick you from the guild when you don't generate enough sales tax for them.

IMO, Guilds should be more like in the olden days of gaming. Groups of people playing together, running dungeons together and pvping together. Not having to worry about meeting this sales quota or that sales quota so they can have what they consider is the best guild trader spot.

Guilds would simply be a funner experience with a Public Auction house.

swirve

CreepySpydre wrote: »

Having no public auction house in this game is one of its best features. I would even go further, you want to sell some thing then you have to go a location and peddle it yourself. Just like merchants on earth had to do in the same level of Tech. Or part of a merchant guild, like what's in the game now.

Though on earth i would not need to join a cartel to sell stuff...no doubt it helps..

rotaugen454

There should be vendiing machines in all the major cities selling every item in the game, and players use their ESO Crown Card to make purchases. Because, you know, immersion.

Katahdin

Oh look, this thread.....again

I like the current system as is

Just need changes to the UI to make searching easier.

Ggrab

I feel like they miss a huge opportunity opportunity with thief guild , it would have been the perfect place for a global auction house down in those tunnels that each city have

Now I like the guild trader but maybe having an auction house system only for crafting materials might be the best way to do it , it will create a stable economic specially for new player like myself


For everything else , crafted gear , etc etc it should go to guild traders

Averya_Teira

I'd like a public auction house, but it would have to be either faction separated or City separated, because , while this trader system SUCKS hard, a global AH with the mega server thing where everyone is playing on ONE server, everything would end up at 5 gold a piece, there would be too much offer.

You always have mats, but you don't need to craft stuff everyday, the AH would end up unbalanced and wouldnt be profitable.

I also like @Ggrab 's idea of an AH only for mats, nothing "processed", so no food, no gear, etc. Again it couldn't really be a global megaserver AH.

Korah_Eaglecry

Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »

It's not gonna happen.

Guild Traders take tens of millions of gold away from the players each week so it's arguably the biggest gold sink in the game. Without it, they'd have to find other ways of reducing our gold in order to prevent everyone getting richer and gold diminishing in value, exponentially increasing prices.

A global auction house, heck even localized auction houses would be a far greater gold sink. It would make this guild trader system look like childs play.

fr33r4ng3r

Nope. I like the guild traders and the system the way it is set up now.