Any specific reason Trion left out features like mail and auction / trading house?

[Technodude]

Just because they're not what you want to hear, doesn't make them silly.

yes it is silly because in my OP i was asking if Trion explained why they left out these features.

[Thunderclap]

If I am understanding you want to horde weapons so you will have the right one for the moment? As for auction house thats a long time away.

[Don Nawetta]

I guess they let out an auction house because of the lockbox-lotto. If everyone could sell the lockbox-drops he doesn´t need to the whole server population Trion would sell much less lockboxes, because a lot of people would buy their items from the ah.

[Samurai UK]

If I am understanding you want to horde weapons so you will have the right one for the moment? As for auction house thats a long time away.

I'm more bothered about the ton of mods in my inventory, that I don't want to get rid of, but I don't have a weapon with the relevant slot available just yet. It'd be nice to be able to put them on ice for a while.

[Samurai UK]

I guess they let out an auction house because of the lockbox-lotto. If everyone could sell the lockbox-drops he doesn´t need to the whole server population Trion would sell much less lockboxes, because a lot of people would buy their items from the ah.

This actually makes perfect sense.

I guess we're all happy about the lack of sub fee, but with such things comes drawbacks, and I fear this will be one of them. Trion need to protect their business model. At the end of the day the game was made to make money, and if it doesn't, then the support will end and the game will shut up shop.

[knightblaster]

Personally I'd love at least a bank/stash to squirrel away all the mods I don't necessarily want right now, but may do if a relevant weapon drops.

I'd also love an auction house but I'm not sure if the loot system is balanced around players being able to share so readily. As in the game would need a @@@t ton of unique loot or the auction house will be just filled with the same stuff over and over and may even hurt public opinion.

But for the record - I'd love to see both implemented in the future, but it's not a deal breaker for me personally.

Actually with an auction house you have to substantially nerf the drop rates of decent loot in order to avoid the AH being flooded with them, thereby depressing prices and trivializing loot upgrades.

Essentially the more AH, the lower the drop rates -- it's that simple.

[necrofobic]

id rather pay a sub and have a AH to be honest

im starting to hate the microtransaction system cause it aaaalways ends up to be "well you dont HAVE to buy it you COULD farm it for 2 years instead" wich is ******** and is just an excuse to greed harder

[knightblaster]

I guess they let out an auction house because of the lockbox-lotto. If everyone could sell the lockbox-drops he doesn´t need to the whole server population Trion would sell much less lockboxes, because a lot of people would buy their items from the ah.

I agree this is likely the reason. Still, a bank/stash would be nice.

[Quirky]

If our Storage is our Character, why can we not put stuff in the Cars and such? They seem to have a load of other rubbish on the back we could get rid of. All I'd like to do is save some Mods.

[Narsuss]

the lock boxes aren't that hard to get in game. i purchased 4 tier 4 boxes with out much thought. an AH i don't think would ruin the drop rates. i have a couple of orange shot guns i absolutely hate that i would of loved to put up on an AH so i could get a orange injector or BMG.