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

[ironhands]

The only thing I'd like to see would be a stash to send items to your other characters, just a little 5 slot box like borderlands 2 had would be nice, so we could avoid passing them to a friend and switching characters.

A bank on its own, is nice to have to some degree, but since there's no crafting loot/supplies, our personal inventory is only weapons and shields, and you can easily get 50+ inventory slots, isn't that sufficient to get several guns of each type with multiple effects?

An AH is also a nice idea, but, once you start that road, you have to balance an economy. I kind of like the fact there isn't one.

Both of these things, and perhaps crafting, could show up in the future of course, there's plenty of options down the road.

I would say the specific reason they've been left out, if not for "it's not needed", then because "let's get the core mechanics running and expand later"

[thespectre]

The only thing I'd like to see would be a stash to send items to your other characters, just a little 5 slot box like borderlands 2 had would be nice, so we could avoid passing them to a friend and switching characters.

A bank on its own, is nice to have to some degree, but since there's no crafting loot/supplies, our personal inventory is only weapons and shields, and you can easily get 50+ inventory slots, isn't that sufficient to get several guns of each type with multiple effects?

An AH is also a nice idea, but, once you start that road, you have to balance an economy. I kind of like the fact there isn't one.

Both of these things, and perhaps crafting, could show up in the future of course, there's plenty of options down the road.

I would say the specific reason they've been left out, if not for "it's not needed", then because "let's get the core mechanics running and expand later"

The game shouldnt have been released if the core mechanics arent running.

[ironhands]

The game shouldnt have been released if the core mechanics arent running.

exactly, which is why they concentrated on that during primary development instead of adding features that aren't really as important

[Niurok]

Only way to do the AH is with scrip and well cash is easy enough to come by in this game. Unless players want to trade resources for gear or keycodes /shrug. To me I don't see a use for AH or a bank. Maybe mounts can add a extra 30 slots or something, the bigger the mount to more it can hold maybe up to like 100 with the big sturdy mounts like for those quest missions. The charger could add maybe 50 slots and the quad bikes add 30. Only thing I don't see in this game so far other than a mailbox which I don't really need is a freakin trash bin to delete stuff that vendors don't take or can't be resourced. Got a shield that just sits there.

[thespectre]

exactly, which is why they concentrated on that during primary development instead of adding features that aren't really as important

Yea, we'll see how unimportant they are when the playerbase evaporates from playing a skeleton of an mmo.

[Lenko]

Yea, we'll see how unimportant they are when the playerbase evaporates from playing a skeleton of an mmo.

Fairly certain a lack of Auction House / Bank will be the cause of people leaving the game.

[ironhands]

Only way to do the AH is with scrip and well cash is easy enough to come by in this game. Unless players want to trade resources for gear or keycodes /shrug. To me I don't see a use for AH or a bank. Maybe mounts can add a extra 30 slots or something, the bigger the mount to more it can hold maybe up to like 100 with the big sturdy mounts like for those quest missions. The charger could add maybe 50 slots and the quad bikes add 30. Only thing I don't see in this game so far other than a mailbox which I don't really need is a freakin trash bin to delete stuff that vendors don't take or can't be resourced. Got a shield that just sits there.

check your loadouts, you might have that shield equipped on one of your builds. when a new loadout's unlocked, it copies your existing equipment settings, so if it's an older shield you were using, probably still there. can't salvage/delete/sell items if they're equipped to any loadout.

[ironhands]

Fairly certain a lack of Auction House / Bank will be the cause of people leaving the game.

I bought this game to shoot things, not to buy/sell items. pretty sure most did the same. 8 pages of patch notes coming to the huge update next week, perhaps they've already added one

[Nevzat]

An auction house would ruin the game. It happened in Diablo 3, once you are able to buy the best weapons once the economy is saturated then it takes all the fun out of farming/looting items.

Trust me on this, it would be a detriment to most peoples gameplay... and the logevity of the game.

Example? i hit level 60, was having a blast in D3.. the loot aspect was awesome finding an upgrade... until i bought godly upgrades transformed my character and for about a week solid of farming i didnt get a single upgrade. What is there left to do?

[ironhands]

An auction house would ruin the game. It happened in Diablo 3, once you are able to buy the best weapons once the economy is saturated then it takes all the fun out of farming/looting items.

Trust me on this, it would be a detriment to most peoples gameplay... and the logevity of the game.

Example? i hit level 60, was having a blast in D3.. the loot aspect was awesome finding an upgrade... until i bought godly upgrades transformed my character and for about a week solid of farming i didnt get a single upgrade. What is there left to do?

I haven't played D3, 'cause I'm not a fan of Blizzard, but haven't they designed/tweaked bosses and future content under the assumption you'll have the best items? This will push people into either farming or buying the items, and hindering people who maybe can't take the time to farm, and don't want to buy/can't afford the items. Essentially what I'm asking is:

Does having an AH dramatically inflate the difficulty of future content?