I have seen a larger than anticipated amount of people complaining about the inability to resell stuff that they purchase by mistake - because it was for the wrong class. Think you’re playing a Primalist and buy something for a Necromancer.
Perhaps, the interface for the item could have a color-indicator for the class.
If it matches the character that you’re currently browsing on, the class name is green.
If it matches an alt that you have on the account, shouldn’t be too hard with their API and being in-game, the class name is yellow.
If you don’t have a character that can use the item because of the class, the class name is red.
This seems to maybe alleviate many people’s concerns that they will inadvertently purchase the wrong item for their class, and be unable to use it due to it being class-locked to another class.
Is this a decent idea, or should people just pay attention to what they’re purchasing?
I agree, but I am speaking for those who are ‘afraid they’re going to buy for the wrong class’ which I am reading as a coded message to say that they want to try to manipulate the market like the auctionator add-on for WoW allowed people to do. "Oh no, I bought the wrong thing! I should be able to re-sell this that I ‘inadvertently’ bought.
This way, they wouldn’t have any legitimate cries. Or make the default search filter be to include your currently played class, specifically, instead of a generic search.
While I agree anything that can reasonably be done to short circuit such strawman arguments would be good and some of them could contribute to every players quality of life. I think the ultimate and best answer is for the devs to just stand their ground and ignore such bs arguments.
As far as I am aware, the amount of people is one, Shrukn.
Then DJSamhein repeated in another thread what he had seen Shrukn say, that’s a total of two.
If you anticipated zero, then yes, it is a larger than anticipated amount. But hardly a tsunami of complaints.
[No offense to any of the people mentioned, this is a legitimate question/concern. Just rescaling.]
Replied in a separate thread but the best solution to this I’ve seen was done in FFXIV. If you’re buying an item that is not equippable by whatever character your buying it on, there’s a warning that indicates that the item your purchasing cannot be currently equipped. Maybe that’s due to level, or class, but the warning is just an easy click through okay.
I’ve never found it to be intrusive and sometimes it’s saved me from buying the wrong thing.
People just need to pay attention. Everything in the game is clearly labelled in like 3 different places, most items have unique graphics if they’re class-specific, AND the entire purchasing interface lets you use the same search and filter function as the current stash and loot filter. There is absolutely NO reason anybody should be mad about messing up something that is 10000% their own fault.
Yeah, unlike PoE the gear doesn’t have stat requirements for one to not realise you don’t meet (which is totes not my reason for buying stuff I can’t use).
A fact that I had just recently spent 500 FE in Torchlight by buying the wrong Aura support gem. I meant to buy 'Stand as One" and bought “Selfless”
One has a mana cost mulitplier making all my Auras cost 15% more meaning my build wouldnt work properly with it. I resold it at a 15% loss due tax and then bought Stand as One but I had wait to until Selfless sold to rebuy the shit I wanted
I actually hadn’t seen his post when I made mine. I just thought that a few times (very few, but still a few) where I bought an item in PoE that I hadn’t noticed I couldn’t use for some reason (maybe it was corrupted). While it was absolutely my fault, in PoE I was able to resell it for the same price.
And I never suggested we should be able to resell it, that would go against everything LE tried to make with MG and I think they did a good job with that. I just suggested we should be able to undo the sale within a short time frame, where you get your resources back and the item goes back on sale as if it had never left.
Overall I don’t think this will happen too often, but an “undo” button would be a nice QoL that couldn’t be abused. As long as you place restrictions on when you can use it, i.e., a short time span on which to do it and maybe not wearing the item. As soon as you do, the sale is final.
If there isn’t one, I guess that’s fine as well. We learn to live with our mistakes. It’s just frustrating when it does happen, especially if you have a new character and you’ve been saving resources for that trade and have to end up doing it all over again.
Of course its called human nature, to make a mistake of different magnitudes and most people will sell the item back exactly the same price basically just happy they got their money back
Torchlight has autotrading. You click ‘Buy’ then you hit confirm and its instantly yours. If you sell anything on the tradehouse you lose 15% to tax. I bought it for 500. I sold it for 500-15% so I was still punished anyway
Hard to compare but imagine accidentally buying Empower 4 instead of Enlighten 4. I know the prices are massively different but its essentially the same thing as in TI these are all 500FE+, except Selfless gives Aura affect. Stand Alone gives Aura effect…to you only and give 0% mana multi. Theres also a support called “Selfish” which has no mana multi. I must of clicked on that first and seen 0 mana multi earlier on. Saved up and bought Selfless and was pissed
The other thing…prices are whacky even on TI after 5 seasons. Someone could sell ‘Selfless’ for 500FE as cheapest, next might be 600, next 680, all the way up to 1500 for the same thing hoping someone will click it, this also means you need to buy shit soon you search and its there. No live searches if you miss the sale its gone which can lead to somewhat impulse buying as you are essentially get a good deal RIGHT now. so you have to be quick…thus leading to errors of judgement sometimes
Also plenty of scammers on TI. Usually the simple ‘1 for 99’ switch. A stack of something might be 1 FE for 99 but some loser will put 1 for 99 hoping to trick you
edit: I just logged in and seached for Flame Sand a very common crafting material. You dont even need to play the game to see the problem in this screenshot. Bare in mind I have nearly 3000FE so I could easily waste 1/3 of my currency on nothing by buying some trash.
