Suggestion: add a 'Trading Fee' for using the /ah command

Purgatorycapra, I've thoroughly enjoyed your views of a returning player, and again, welcome back to the game. But I'd have to agree with my fellow forumites in that I don't see this as a good idea.

You cannot force community on people, regardless of the space you confine them in. Ingame I interact with people in the Help channel, in my Global channels, in Local, and sometimes even in Broadcast. Community is not based on proximity, it is based on individuals and their interactions with other players, be they friends or not.

The way to create a community is to interact others, standing shoulder to shoulder does not guaranty that, having a dialog between players does not even guaranty that, but it is the first step. Players taking that first step is at times a huge leap of faith, you can never know how someone else may react and I've had some experiences with unknowns that have ranged from this person is still a global friend even after four-plus years to something that was petition-worthy. I have not allowed the bad experiences to sway me from lending a hand or answering a question ingame, because I've made friends that way. That is how a community is built, one conversation at a time.

Wait, he was serious?

Man, the last "social interactions" I've had with other players in Wents was using the /ignorespammer command.

The /auctionhouse or /ah command was something I earned as a Veteran Reward for 84 months (7 years) of loyalty to the game, well before Freedom was launched.

Now you want them to implement charging me a fee for a reward I've already earned?

That's effectively taking away the incentive to use the "perk" I was given for being loyal to the game and supporting the game for 84 months (7 years) of subscription. The perk being that I have full access to the market without having to traipse across at least one zone and possibly more and then back to what I was doing?

You must be out of your Nether-loving mind to think this is even remotely a good idea.

Are you serious?

If the game needs more public gathering places, then how about adding gambling to the game and making casinos

I get my sense-of-not-being-alone by reading (and sometimes typing in) chat channels, not by being forced to stand next to the guy who can't be bothered to turn off Spine Burst or dismiss his howling demons.

Red Valkyrja said much the same, and probably more eruditely.

Add me back to the list of people who say no, nay, do not want, no thank you, it's not needed, I don't want it, it solves no problem. I had said as much in a much more succinct fashion, but apparently such things are frowned upon in this establishment.

I have to say no too, but mostly because the underlying argument isn't about the game, it's about the OP (a "me" argument). Here's an idea, if you like going to WW, then go, don't use the /ah command. Problem solved. And if you notice that WW is empty then you can get a pretty good idea of how much people like the /ah command as is. No need to change a QoL perk for the rest of us to suit your fancy.

A big fat NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! and NO!

I'll give this a yes vote. I used to look for O-portals in WW to get my own badge and portal. Now I actually have to ask someone to lay one down for me.

There's also something about a bustling marketplace that makes people spend more on my stuff.

If not a fee for /ah, how about a discount if you buy at WW/BM? In the real world you get charged shipping and handling if you don't go to the store and buy it yourself.

Even if this were implemented, I find it hard to believe that it would be significant enough to remove money from the game enough to see a reduction in inflation or reduced market prices.

The social aspect I don't really get. I don't go to WW/BM to chat and socialize and I can't say I've seen too many other players that seem to want to either. That said, I still see plenty of people at the auctionhouses.

Me? I have /auctionhouse macro'd and use it with glee.

Oh gosh no.

I actually use the market more with /ah, since I can do it while flying from mission to mission, instead of a large detour, and well, it's a perk I paid for. I don't wanna be penalized for it.

The only people I think I've ever seen speak up at an WW/BM are Chinese gold sellers and people who are looking for a quick port to Ouroboros, to be honest. I'm not sure what social aspect there is to preserve.

Before I opened the thread, I thought the idea was going to be a much-needed INF sink.

I'd back -- and pay -- a fee to assist in the destruction of INF, to fight inflation. Even though it would affect a vet reward. But I'm not so sure the stated idea of WW as a social site would result.

And I have said things in WW not related to money or begging an Oro portal. Mostly complimenting neat concepts and costumes of people I see there.