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Thread: BACKPACK NERF Dont you love those whining Merchants....
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Pawlin
Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:21 pm
#27
I absolutely don't believe the DEVs intended for us to use vendors as storage. That implies they designed vendors with storage in mind. i.e. sat down and said "hey lets make it so people can store unlimited stuff on their vendors and easily circumvent the storage limits we put on their inventories". No I don't believe that is what they did.
They have adamantly refused to increase inventory space. So I just can't believe they'd intentionally or purposefully design the system so we could have unlimited storage on vendors.
Now it is possible the DEVs did realize that vendors COULD be used as storage but went ahead and implemented them as is anyway just because they didn't have an elegant solution to stop people from doing so. (they still dont'). And maybe they were hoping (?) people wouldn't do it. /shrug
Or it is quite possible they just plain failed to see that people would use vendors for storage. Its easy to see it in hindsight but maybe they missed seeing that potential before hand.
Whatever their initial intentions were, after the fact they must have known people were using vendors for storage. They may have chosen to leave it that way as long as they did just because they didn't think it was that high of a priority to address it at the time or maybe they didn't have any other way to stop it short of the vendor nerf that they knew we'd all scream against.
And I don't mean to criticize anyone using vendors for storage. I just called it as I saw it.. I dont' think SOE ever wanted us to do it. What they want or expect often doesn't match what we want.
And yes I definitely agree that I'd like SOE to do a better job of figuring out how people WANT to play the game and how we DO play the game and then making the game mechanics match our reality instead of trying to fit their grand utopian scheme they though up 2 years ago (but don't really share with us) about how they think things OUGHT to work. Or at the very least they could tell us what it is they think should happen so we can correct their incorrect assumption about what their customers want. Or who knows maybe maybe we'd even see the logic of their ideas. If nothing else it would help us to understnad better what they do or don't do.
p.s. I hate these pathetic forums, I wrote this big response and then it logs me out when I hit submit. Luckily it was there still when I hit teh back button but chances are just as good it would have been.
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