Hello,

Maybe you're not aware of a practice becoming always more serious about the trading guilds: they prey on mostly new players, asking for gold one week after joiningnthe guild.
If you cannot pay, go farm mats they say, even giving tips where to farm and how, just to fill their pockets with more gold, gold that they will sell for real money on other websites - just make a simple internet research and you will find a lot of websites selling ESO gold, mostly from guild owners, using 3rd party accounts just to fool the GM's when (and if) banning them.

Read trading guilds rules and you will see how they are asking directly for gold from players. Then trace the gold from such guilds and you will see that it ends on the gold selling ESO illegal websites.

Lately, most trading guilds I've been accepted in, asked gold from me (no less than 5k / week) to be a member. The nicer guilds are also accepting to trade a certain weekly amount, from 15k to 30k gold / week, all with the excuse that they need to bid on the guild vendor.

Actually it is almost impossible to find a trading guild with an actual vendor, that isn't asking for gold to be member.

So, ultimately being a member of a trading guild is becoming a stress. I play for fun and to relax, not to stress myself that the guild I'm in will kick me out because I didn't meet my sales quota or I forgot paying the "protection" tax.


Solution to this ?
1. Create an unified player store / vendor / auction house, where everybody could sell items, like in ALL OTHERS MMO's. This will reduce also the fraud commited with your gold.
2. Sell gold yourself, like other MMO's. Eliminate the illegal competition.
3. Change the way guild vendors are assigned to trading guilds. Make it random as location and ask a fixed price for a vendor. If there are too many requests, assign vendors based on guild members number - more members, more chance to get a vendor in a week.This way a guild will be forced to be honest and offer quality time and events, so the members will stay in.


I cannot even begin to tell how bad this looks for you ZOS, allowing your players being extort by other players. It's like you agree bullying us. It looks really bad, I'm telling you.
I was always a paying customer, I bought all DLC, I'm also an ESO+ payer, always paying 6 months in advance, because I like the game and I want to support you to develop it better. But please, do something to fix the major faults in this game. The guilds system IS a system malfunctioning in your game.

The people extorting money from others and actually the real gold sellers will dislike this post and I expect bad comments below - you could actually check the accounts of such persons for illegal activities and gold appeared or misteriously dissapeared in large amounts.

In the mean time I will never join an extortion trade guild and I will just spam zone chat to sell things. I advise other honest players to do the same.

Thank you.

Bye