Why is Kamadan THE marketplace in Guild Wars?

Is it due to size? Convenience? Or is it just that most people have Nightfall?

Either way, most people seem to sell their stuff in Kamadan. The Vabbi capital looks like a better market town in my opinion.

It's capacity is large therefore the chance of someone's eye catching your item in among the spam is high.

It's also easily accessible by low level mule characters.

For two reasons:

1) It's a port town, meaning that if you have access to Nightfall you can access Kamadan. For this reason it would limit a potential trading hub to Lion's Arch, Kaineng or Kamadan.

2) It's the only port town which is the first outpost that a new character reaches, meaning that it is available to everyone. This benefit is increased as people's mules and 2 accounts etc only have to go through a 5 minute mission before they can start trading as opposed to all of pre-searing and a run to LA or the whole beginner island of factions.

1. Boat there immediately from any campaign.

2. Access early for mules/NF campaign

"Kamadan" is an ancient Sudanese word meaning "Great Market".

would be cool if people used the kodash, it would eliminate the account buyers/sellers which only really appear in kamadan and gtob.

but then again, youd have to switch stuff from your mules to bank to sell in kama

i guess because its newest big central place, there fore it was ascalon, droks, la, kaineng

lol i remember the good ol days of trading in ascalon


to op: why is kamadan used? answer: d) all of the above

but to add to the additional responses: they want additional traffic of those players not specifically looking to buy, but those players who are just "passing through".

Would be even cooler if there was some sort of marketplace set up in each campaign so you could actively sell in a port town and passively sell on the market. Prime places: Kodash Bazaar in NF, Marketplace in Cantha, Droknar's Forge in Tyria.

Win.

All the above, plus because the game is lacking one of the most basic elements that should have been in it from day one (an auction house!!!!), that virtually every other MMO has, we have to have some place to try and buy and sell stuff so it might as well be there. If it is even worth the effort and time to do so.

i normally use GTOB. Mules dont have to go through ANY missions, and all campaigns have access to it.

They're not going to implement an auction house in GW. Period.

What ever happened to ascalon ID1? That used to be where all the rare stuff was...now its a ghost town

Not even as a test for Guild Wars 2?

Just hoping...

people choose wher they wanna trade. . .if half the population decided ascalon id1 was the place to go again .. then the other half will move

It was a nice place for high end trade, I dont know what happened to it either.

Thats funny, I had to get my Nightfall character through the first mission into Kamadan before I could get to GTOB. And you also have to get through Pre-searing in Prophecies.

Yah...always went there when i wanted something high end...hmmm...lame

Create a PvP char and see where you end up. Something that can be done with any campain.

PvP character. Instant mule creation, no hassle.