I'd like to know why there are randomly buttons along the top of the UI for things like viewing your Cart or your Account page that flat out don't appear 80%-90% of the time you open the Market window.
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Hi everyone! You know how when people talk about Free 2 Play models being about 5% of the population spending enough to finance the play of the other 95%?
*Waves hand* Hi, I'm the 5%!
I have plenty of disposable income that I can spend on neat little gadgets and toys that make my game more enjoyable. The problem is, if I find it difficult to buy them, I won't! Right now I'm sitting on about 9000 paragon points and I'm not spending them because I just find the Paragon Market so frustrating to use.
So, having said that I've got a few suggestions for the Market UI. Please read through them and feel free to correct any inaccuracies and of course feel free to add your own suggestions!
BOUGHT ITEMS
The big one is up first, and one that has been raised by many players already. Any account wide item that I have already purchased has absolutely no business being in my Paragon Market still. I don't know how the tech works fo the Paragon Market (and frankly I don't really care) but once I've bought an item that I can only buy once it needs to get lost so I don't have to remember for myself whether I have bought it already or not.
CONTINUE SHOPPING
When I add items to my cart and then press continue shopping I should be returned to the exact page I was on when I left. Currently if I am on (for example) page 4 of the Storage list and then add something to my cart, when I press continue shopping it drops me back to page 1. Not cool! Put me back on the page I was on when I left.
FINDING YOUR CART
Now, I'm not sure here, but I can find no way of actually getting to my cart without adding something to it. So if I have added something to my cart and then Continued shopping but decided not to buy anything else, I have to add something else to my cart just to get back to it.
TOOL TIPS
I'm not sure who designs your UI and its buttons but you should really let them know just because they know what a button does, doesn't mean that we do! For example I was in my wish list and saw a blue cart icon with a down arrow. I hovered my mouse over it to find out what it did and lo and behold... nothing. Do you have problems with people knowing what is going to happen before they press a button? Because trust me, when money and purchases are concerned if I don't know exactly what is going to happen then I won't do it. I wasn't sure if the button would automatically process those items or just add them to my cart and so I ended up just leaving it alone. And you know what, that means I didn't buy the items in question.
In closing let me say this. Everything you see above comes from a place of love. If I may seem a little aggravated it's because when I want to spend money and the person I want to give my money to actively hinders me it leaves me a little frustrated. Anyone else who has any little gripes about the Market UI, or has any suggestions about how it can be improved (or who just wants to tell me I'm an idiot who should shut up) feel free to comment and I'll try and update the original post with any new material so everything is kept together.