😲 What is happening to TRADING in ESO's next update: Gold Road [Update 42]

Not bothered about store items expiring after 14 days, but the 14 day expiry on mail concerns me more. Pity they can't just be dropped into inventory or something like that.

While it won’t impact me (I generally re-list even rare items after a week as the FOMO is higher on newly listed items) this sucks for more casual traders. As for what this means for the economy, I honestly can’t tell if this will drive down prices with people trying for a faster sale or drive them up because less people are listing on traders.

Oh thank MaMommyGodAzura, someone explaining all these changes in a single bite-sized 6 minute vid. Much Confusion Saved ~❤

I'm less concerned abt how this will impact my trading (as my personal experience matches the data cited by the devs) and way more concerned abt how this will impact me using my friends to abuse the mail system on behalf of my treasure map addiction 🥲🥲 stackable treasure maps when?? 😭😭

This is just punishing people for going on vacation and not taking a gaming laptop with them. Now, instead of loading up all my traders before I go, I’ll be clearing the whole lot out

i have not been doing my homework on upcoming changes so this was really helpful, thanks Arttea :)

As a person who primarily specializes in high value, low volume items; I despise the change to the guild store listing length

Makes me wish listing fees were proportionally changed based on the days listed… oh well 🤷🏻‍♂️

I just hope I will see this "server performance" out of this update :face-blue-smiling:

Interesting, I wonder how much the "improvements in server performance" will benefit players... You know... To justify this change. I sure hope to have a way smoother playing experience after the patch... Or something, dunno

That's really interesting, wonder why listings and mail would take up that much more power if listed for half the time. I have yet to touch the trading system since I just play every once in a while and am focusing on doing the content in order.

This change will affect the "bad" trader spots more than the good ones. In Craglorn, Deshan and co. Items already sell realy fast, while i sometimes have to list my item twice at a 25% TTC/MM discount in for example murkmire. We will probably see even more traders and guilds compete for the top spots than we see now which is not necessary a good thing.

If the majority of items are sold within a week how can the fraction of items that stay longer be such a burden for the server performance? 🤔

My personal issue with that change, is that currently im in a military service, so I have sometimes unexpected abscences from the game, and while some can be just about a day, it also can go up a month or more. So it basically unsafe for me to sell my stuff anymore. Now imagine people with harder jobs, that all they want is to chill after work-day in game sometimes

I'm in 5 trading guilds and I keep all my slots filled and I can tell you if something doesn't sell by 7 days it's not going to because others have listed it lower and I need to take it down and relist it. So this 14 day thing isn't that big of a deal. What bothers me about it is it's gonna cost the same to list so if they're gonna halve the time the listing will be up they need to halve the listing fee. As for people who take frequent breaks from the game or their jobs interfere, just pull your listings down and gather your mail before you have to go out of the game for a bit.

If this improves performance this is a trade-off i can deal with but the vaporizing mail bit seems steep.

maybe they should lower listing fees by a percent or two.

The gold from sales should automatically go into your inventory!

They need to cut down the listing fee and taxes for this change.

I was unaware of this. Thank you very much for keeping us informed.