Trading Spam...*sighs*

I guess I just don't understand the whole concept of "IF you don't like it turn off the channel!" I don't think we should have to turn off the ALL channel, because of it. I mean there are now 2 different TRADE areas, and one let's you spam all districts at the same time.

If you ask them to stop they get rude and nasty. I enjoy sitting in districts and answering questions but you can rarely see the questions anymore unless they spam them too (which is irratating too).

Sometimes I swear we should do a great big boycott of everyone that won't use the trade channels...LOL. But I guess until then off with the ALL chat it is.


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There really is no reason to spam trade in the local channel anymore (not that it was proper to do it in the first place). There's a perfectly fine way to trade things without spamming and yet people still do it. I'd like to see bans handed out but that will never happen.

It will never end, there will always be people spamming local, trade, and advertising in the SEARCH panel, because they want to get as many people's attention as possible.

The only true solution is to add an auction house or a centralized trade center apart from any of the actual campaigns and Pve story line, something like the great temple of balthazar, but designed for PvE trading.

There is a section in the Search panel for Trade.

And yet, as you said, people will STILL be spamming to maximize attention even if there were some auction house. The only way people will stop is with the threat of punishment....which will never happen.

Or with just that, a Trading/Auction House. That we all allways wanted since the spam started and trading got so hard and boring to even try!

I agree they do it because there is no reason not to. At least give me an unlimited ignore list so I can really boycott them. LOL.

There has to be something that can be done. With all the channels off I might as well not be playing an MMORPG.

I was thinking that too... (that something should be done.)

Two thing would really help in my opinion.

A real auction house so people have their items in the AH instead of in their inventory. (Wouldn't make sense to spam since buyers will be at the AH anyway.)

Also I was thinking that guild wars should take away the up arrow to go the previous message feature. That way people would have to type it in each time and would thus discourage the spam and encourage the current trade in the seach feature. (Yes you could still copy/paste but again it's still a little extra work to do over and over, and they'd have to get into the habbit of doing it differently so the majority would just stick it the search trade.)

from the flip side, spamming is still far more effective than posting on party trade window. or if you're selling alot of stuff, do both.

so it's not going away anytime soon, until there is an auction house thing.
another idea is to have a inscriptions/mods trader. that would get rid of alot of spams.

at the moment though, 99% of the trade spam is:
WTS CANDY CANE SHARDS! OMG I HAVE SO MANY!!!! ARGGH

I really don't think an auction house would help much at all. Can you picture it? A big giant shopping mall integrated into a game like guild wars, with an unlimited supply of garbage that nobody wants. Then there would still be those people that refuse to use the auction house, and continue to spam in the all channel anyway (because apparently they aren't getting through to anyone, and need their junk sold NOW!). Why does anyone need to continuously buy crap all the time in this game anyway? Collector items and crafter items are easily obtainable, but I guess they don't look cool enough. You get drops all the time just by killing monsters, some good, some not. If weapons/staves/offhands/wands/shields were super hard to come by in this game, then I might buy into it more. But I still think something like an auction house would hardly do anything really. Just my opinion though.

Well if I understand how auctions work in other games, you do not have physical possession of the item while its for auction. Essentially, you deposite the item into the auction house, and the winner can then pick up the item at the auction when he wins.

So why would people spam they are selling an item they currently are not in posession of? An auction house would definately dramatically cut back on spam, but there will still be people trying to sell directly instead of through the auction.

ok, and what about the words "and advertising in the SEARCH panel" lead you to believe I'm not aware of this?

True there is a lot of crap in this game as far as different requirements mods and so on and so forth... the more I think about it the less I think an Auction House would ever really happen.... Unless you clear off all mods of all weapons.. then maybe >.>;

That's something which concerns me... with the npc substitute players (heroes), empty outposts (which I realize demanded something like heroes be introduced), and incredible spam in local chat for no reason (especially with the party search trade feature) but with no punishment (never going to happen in GW I know), I fear GW may be turning into a MSOG... Massively Singleplayer Online Game.

It's terribly annoying, especially when the party search trade feature is used properly either.

One big reason is that the current trade system SUCKS.
So many times I wanted to buy something, and go "ohh, no one is selling it", only to look again and realized that I missed the seller with what I want in the mess of words. Not only is the seller frustrated cuz a lot of potential buyer will miss his post, but the buyer themselves often get annoyed themselves. The "P" trading system isn't even close to an improvement, in fact I find it worse than just typing in chat (trade chat mind you). Why?

1. You can only advertise ONE item at a time
2. Even advertising one item there isn't enough word space to type detail and pricing.
3. Still isn't automatic .

Obviously local spamming works for people, I suspect quite a lot of buyers deliberately look in the less cluttered color channel so that they won't get a headache reading.

I don't think A.Net really cares about spam. Just an educated guess based on their lack of action or any real effort to eliminate it

Auction house is definitely the way to go. The traders will stop spamming if they realise that buyers are going to the auction house first to look for things.

I also think anet should ban some spammers. The EULA specifically says that spam is not permitted and that anet can ban them, but i've never even heard of a warning being given.

They should make an auction house.
When someone says WTS in local chat it gets changed to trade chat, so if we had an auction house maybe people saying WTS or Selling or WTB would get a message saying go to the Auction house or something and the chat wouldn't be posted.

Auction houses would not help much more than the party search has (which it has helped a goodly bit).

You would see a whole load of "SELLING XXY IN TEH AUCTION HOUSE!1!1! C/O 8k!!!!"


LOTS of it.

Like I said...the party search does nothing to help people sell better, so....not many people use it.