Oh Joygasm! Merged Markets!

Honestly, this is the best City of Heroes news in a long time. Im probably more amped about this than I am about Going Rogue.

Brilliant, best move they could have made.

You show 'em, anvil.

Not only was GR a logical time to merge the markets, it would also have created circumstances under which one of the markets, and two of the alignments, would likely have been rendered nonfunctional by player action. A de facto market merge with profoundly negative side effects was in the cards anyway; this de jure merge neatly avoids those effects.

I honestly think the revamp of the market interface led to the merged markets, and the possibilities inherent in GR led to the revamp of the market. So as GR stood in the beginning, it probably looked like a bigger problem to merge the markets than to deal with the escrow and other separated systems. However, once the technology was in place, it probably was the other way around, and the escrow system became the bigger headache than the merged market.

That is to say, GR did not directly lead to the merged market, but the increased INTEREST in it due to GR indirectly did. And since a lot of that interest was discussion of merged market, I wouldn't say the talk about it wasn't an indirect influence as well.

I'm not going to begrudge some people a well deserved pat on the back. Not because they proved everyone who disagreed with them wrong, but because they kept the subject fresh on everyone's mind long enough for the perspective on the issue to change.

i didn't read through the whole thread, but i will say this...

judging by all the issues that have risen in the game since W_W(MB) took over as lead designer and her "lack" of rectifying the problems, if i were everyone i would remove everything off the markets before anything happens. and i would not put anything high value in them until everything has been tested to insure that the markets are working properly.

i am not trying to speak badly of W_W, just the lack of fixing problems. i hope i'm wrong, but time will tell.

Can you explain that better?

"The lack of fixing problems" is rather inexact. What are you actually saying?

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yeah, that was a bit inexact. what i meant to say was priority wise, she doesn't seem to put bugs and other related problems in the front of the to do list. when you are getting reports on test from closed to open and they haven't been fixed before release and make it to release and take forever getting problems fixed, it is not a good sign. it just seems to me that there isn't as much QC as there should be with her at the helm.

this is just my opinion on what i have noticed over the last few months.

You sound concerned.

Myself, I see a lot of what's happened under W_W's watch to be the more ambitious, difficult things to implement, so, we get more bugs. I know of some bugs that have been around since I started playing the game, so the idea that W_W is somehow worse for QC than the older heads were seems very odd from where I sit.

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No matter the developer, the company, the game, or the year, it will always be the case that the stuff you think is vitally important will be put off and ignored in favor of "stupid boring stuff that no one cares about." Always. It's uncanny.

Link to huge open office sheet. Link to excel version The sheet contains pictures and numbers. I put up an open office and an excel version. Hopefully they work. I haven't had a chance to test either.

This file contains price data from 3/24 and 6/24 on the Red and Blue markets. I expect to collect data around 8/14 and 8/31 as well.

I did not collect the data in a scientific manner.

*EDIT* The spreadsheet is very helpful when people say things along the lines of "Redside is like ____" or "blue prices are higher" or "the markets are so alike/different".