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

[Zraxus]

with trading comes problems.

1. Scammers. Sure ppl shouldnt be so stupid etc, but best way to avoid that whole mess is to just not include it. it would take time to monitor and police, and if they ignore it, thats a whole new **** storm to deal with in itself.

2. Spammers. Scrip spammers wouldnt take long to show up and that is an annoyance no one wants to deal with. then you either have to deal with player bans and chat policing. another headache and expenditure of manpower that is easily avoided.

i highly doubt their store sales has much to do with it. doesnt matter who buys the lockboxes as long as they are being bought. but they are saving money on manpower by not having to deal with the headaches trading features bring.

banks are not needed. your inventory expands where you can keep pretty much everything you need. sure there will be those who want to hoard everything but they sell more inventory slots for those people.

[cwyllog]

Sure that loads of stuff will turn up down the line, but they prioritised and had to get a good enough game running and working for the TV series launch.

[Warkaiser]

IIRC they stated somewhere, possibly back on the Alpha forums or something, that they may add features like this in later but it is very low priority for them at this point. Their main priority is getting the "shooter" aspect of the game perfected, then they will look into adding more features & tools down the road.

[HansKisaragi]

Hmm so people in defiance don't trade or mail each other? is that really because of lore? population of defiance has no storage or bank facility either to stash their stuff?

I'm sure the part terra forming of earth killed all the aucutioneers and the mail pigons

[Technodude]

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.

Yes sir. mods and weapons both. I even bought more inventory slots from market but still it isn't enough.

[knightblaster]

banks are not needed. your inventory expands where you can keep pretty much everything you need. sure there will be those who want to hoard everything but they sell more inventory slots for those people.

Even single player shooters like Borderlands have stashes, both for one character and for sharing between characters. It isn't hard to add, and it adds value for the player.

I would think they could easily have a stash with a small number of slots -- say 3 or 5 -- and then have that upgradeable via the store. That is easy to do and creates no problems.

[Odinj]

what you need to remember this game has just launched all these things can be added later. I mean they may even include crafting options for the salvage you pick up in the future, for example you choose a category like, mods, weapons, shields, grenades. and the salvage you get can be used to slowly learn how to create the technology and make items from the category you have chosen. These would be the items you would sell on the Black Market (which would be the mmo equivalent of an auction house). I mean come on if you can break items down into salvage then surely in the future you should be able to build something new with the broken down salvage.

[DuoMaxwell007]

LockBoxes are the trading house. Mail? blame Microsoft and Sony. If this has been built for a PC and then kludged for the consoles these things would be here.
I don't blame Triton because they were trying a new idea. They wanted everyone involved. As usually spread too thin and its all a mess.

what does MS have to do with lack of mail? that makes no sense lol

[Psygo]

this game is missing community aspects in general, only people I've interacted with in this game is the friends I've been playing with from before this game, and the bullet exchanges.

[thespectre]

I'm sorry, but some of the responses to the OP are laughably ridiculous. If this game is supposed to thrive as an MMO, there has to be something to connect us outside of just randomly running past someone and maybe gunning down a few mobs with them. Not to mention even single player games that focus on loot (Borderlands for example) have banks to stash what you find. Thats just basic stuff. I have no idea what this game is trying to be or trying to accomplish but thus far its just "shoot things". Thats pretty much it. Paper thin story, shallow quests (and even more shallow sidequests which is hard to imagine till you do them), underwhelming skills, underwhelming perks, underwhelming weapons, crappy chat system, no bank, no auction house, no mail system. Im sorry but this is absolutely pathetic. The bugs and server issues this early I can forgive, but just basic MMO stuff? For the price we paid? Its ridiculous. If you want to argue about subs too take a look at Guild Wars 2. It rapes the crap out of this game and that was at launch.