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suggestion to help improve paragon market

Necrotech_Master

By Necrotech_Master,
Posted on: 2012-04-10 22:23 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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with all the recent fuss over when staff fighting would be out i was thinking of a potential way to give us a "heads up" when stuff is coming out that anyone could see in game

if possible, i think a "coming soon" section should be added for stuff that would be added to the market in the next month, and allow poeple to add items to their wishlist or "watch list" of stuff they would want

in doing this, they would allow anyone who logs into the game the ability to see items that would be coming up, as well as plan by adding things to their wishlist to monitor

idk how much work this would be, but it would definitely alleviate a lot of the concerns poeple have about not knowing whats coming up in the market

 

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I'd definitely approve of a "Coming Soon" section.

Perhaps even a % off if you preorder something you're looking forward to?


 

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There is a wishlist button so they probably intend to do it or it was cancelled.

 

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Darn... Here I thought the suggestion would have been "Scrap it and start over with a working market developed by a competent staff of web developers with a history of making successful web stores."

Oh well.



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Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
Darn... Here I thought the suggestion would have been "Scrap it and start over with a working market developed by a competent staff of web developers with a history of making successful web stores."

Oh well.
im just trying to make the best of a bad situation lol, if they had resources and time to do an overhaul then that would be good too lol

 

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In my opinion, the market is working perfectly. I buy probably about half of the featured items, though I see others running around with whatever is new that week all over the place.

Although there are plenty of vocal players who want to know in advance what and when new items are coming out, personally, I like to be surprised on Tuesdays the first time I log into my account.

 

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Originally Posted by stevie_james View Post
In my opinion, the market is working perfectly.
Have you tried to buy anything from other web based markets? I'm not even talking about stuff like Amazon, but other games' stores. The Paragon Market is the most retarded (and I use the term deliberately because it slows the purchase process) game store I've ever had the misfortune to come across. If I was a web development teacher, I'd be sorely tempted to fail a student that handed me this market.

It does not:
  • Accurately reflect purchases (despite promises otherwise), even items bought less than a minute before.
  • Has no purchase history.
  • Can't tell you, even after you agree to purchase something, what item is causing the transaction to fail.
The list goes on, but those three are completely inexcusable and whoever did such a lousy job should be replaced with someone that knows what they are doing.



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