Drop the cents in the GTN pricing PLZ !!

I'll never understand why people feel they need to argue the same points as long as they do. If you think it's a pointless and needless change, say so once, let it be known and let that be the end of it. This entire thread is just a way to communicate an idea. BioWare isn't going to pass on or act upon the idea based on who wins the pissing contest on the forums. They will evaluated the facts and make the decisions that are best for the company and the players.

State your opinions, reason them out and justify them if you must, clarify them when they are not being understood, but for God's sake stop repeating the same arguements over and over just because someone doesn't agree with you.

We get it, some people don't think this is a problem. I'm inclined to agree with that, but just because I don't think it's a problem doesn't mean I have to convince everyone else that it isn't a problem.

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There is no argument that can be made that beats the simple fact that people not paying attention to what they are doing are the problem, not the GTN. We don't need to be forced to use whole numbers and we don't need to have false data on the GTN in order to prevent people who are not paying attention from doing something they wouldn't do if they used just a shred of common sense and due diligence.

It has nothing to do with empathy or me being an A-hole or anything else. I am a huge advocate of personal responsibility.

I see warning signs on devices that have no reason to have warning signs.

in this point there is one fundamental issue they need to understand no matter what the radix point looks like (, a . a & a # etc) there are only ever two digits to the right of it. Not 1, not 3..2 trailing zeros are eliminated specifically to avoid any confusion. IF they listed 3 decimal places ##0 then YES I would agree it needs to be corrected and adjusted. But until they do. ####.## ####,## or ####$## ####:## etc. will always represent the same number.

The lack of empathy would be the part where you're so stuck on blaming the user and touting personal responsibility that you don't care how it affects other players. All you see is a bunch of stupid people who get what they deserve, because they're not as careful you are.



I'm not surprised that you'd mention this, given your posts in this thread. This isn't a case of "what the hell did you think peanut butter was made out of?!", it's a case of inconsistently displayed numbers (potentially coupled with sorting that's buggy) leading players to carelessly purchase items for the wrong price. And while I understand the sentiment of "if you need a warning sign to tell you not to stick your hand in a blender then you deserve whatever you get", not all stupid mistakes are created equal.

Most of the stupid warnings that you see lately (i.e., a bag of nuts that has the warning "may contain nuts") aren't actually meant to prevent people from being idiots, and in that sense they are completely useless. They are there for the company to cover their a**, legally. On the other hand, the change provided in this thread would actually have a benefit for the user by more clearly conveying the price that they will be paying. Just like any other UI feature meant to convey information, it doesn't matter whether the information is provided so much as how it is provided. In that sense it actually has a tangible benefit. It's a lot more akin to creating a saw that stops itself than it is adding a warning label that says "keep hands away from blade". Sure, you can argue that people should be more careful when using a saw and call them stupid when they chop their hand off, but it happens and it's going to happen no matter how much you tell people that they are stupid. At some point you just have to acknowledge the issue and try to find a way to fix it. In this case it's an extremely simple fix that has really no drawbacks.



You can't argue away careless mistakes.

can't argue away careless mistakes..instead we'll complain about them and make someone else do somethign so we can keep on making careless mistakes.

so what happens WHEN they fix this, and it keeps happening? Do we implement a refund feature? In that span of an hour where an item is sold, it allows the buyer to 'refund it" thus removing it from the GTN while not crediting the seller any credits...so that becomes abused as well to drive up prices by removing low hanging fruit.

at what point is a person no longer responsible for their own actions?

I'm not looking for the eradication of every possible way that someone could be careless or stupid. However, I think that this particular case leaves open a simple solution that would greatly decrease the occurance of incorrectly purchased items, due to improved clarity in the UI.

To more directly answer your question, I don't see any other simple changes that could be made in this area that would help careless buyers, and unless someone can come up with some other good solution then I'd have no problem saying that at that point the player just has to deal with it. There is only so far that a company should be expected to go in order to prevent careless mistakes. But just like with adding the Buy Back tab to the vendors, it's also not unreasonable to request that they do put some effort in, even if it's for nothing other than to cater to careless people.

I'll never understand why people feel they need to argue the same points as long as they do. If you think it's a pointless and needless change, say so once, let it be known and let that be the end of it.

We get it, some people don't think this is a problem. I'm inclined to agree with that, but just because I don't think it's a problem doesn't mean I have to convince everyone else that it isn't a problem.

actually what should be done, is let me set a unit price, and let the game figure out the total price.