Why is there a limit on how much you can sell in a timespan?

[Deleted]

Really annoying when I'm trying to get rid of all the items I collected during my jumping puzzle binges through the BLTC, but I'm constantly getting the message "you have sold too many auctions recently". I don't care about how much I get, so I'm just selling to the highest bidder, which goes really fast, but I keep getting that message after like 5 ot 6 sales. Is there a way to get rid of that?

[lawow74]

Part anti-botting and part integrity checking, is my guess. Make sure all transactions go smoothly and keep automated auction bots from lagging things down with excessively fast trades.

[Fencers]

Its so the market can't be flooded or used to launder transactions by automated processes as easily. To most end users the limit is not even known or reached. Those end users it effects are so marginal as to be statistically insignificant in many cases.

Anet consulted my previous employer on how to build their micro-transaction service within an in-game transaction model. It is likely Anet took some liberties of their own, but also as likely they limit transactions for the same reason we did; bots.

[Fernling306]

According to John Smith, it's due to technical reasons.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/foru...Cap#post808444

[Deleted]

That must be a really hard to fix technical reason. I can post 85 auctions in seconds in WoW, but GW2 would make me take 15 minutes. I know, completely different engines and systems, but still, it's a really annoying system.

[Valeron]

GW2's system is also global, WoW's is not

[zito]

It's actually gotten better, before the AH revamp I would sell stuff get the error and then wait a minute or 2 sell 2 or 3 more things then another error. Now it is usually sell a bunch wait a few min and sell a bunch more.

[Lazuli]

GW2's system is also global, WoW's is not

That is relevant why? You are still taking limited data from their db depending on your search, filters, etc. It should make no difference global or not unless yo 'jailbreak' it with the gnashblade command allowing many more listings to show & load at once. You can really see how faulty this laggy AH is then.

[Valeron]

the bigger the database is, the worse the performance is going to be

[Huehuecoyotl]

Its so the market can't be flooded or used to launder transactions by automated processes as easily. To most end users the limit is not even known or reached. Those end users it effects are so marginal as to be statistically insignificant in many cases.

You have got to be kidding me. I play for an hour, then go to sell just the stuff I have picked up in that time and I hit the limit every single time. The only way anyone isn't hitting this limit is if they don't bother using the TP. Or they decide to spend a ridiculous amount of time figuring out what to sell their stuff for.

Statistically insignificant my arse.