Many of the concerns of the player base over the Trading Post were addressed in a recent live chat discussion that was posted by World of Warcraft. The movie adequately prepared gamers for the next World of Warcraft addition. A number of members of the WoW Community Council met with designers Jeremy Crystal Tam, Tyler Neuhaus, Feasel, Jennifer Hauer, Andrew Bernard, and Kenny McBride for a live chat. Over the course of an hour, the video addressed players’ worries and detailed the design process that went into creating the latest World of Warcraft functionality.
The Trading Post’s main purpose was to feature enticing products and provide a range of ways to get them that were unrelated to the expansion’s theme. The Trading Post in World of Warcraft is where the game’s talented art team gets to shine, with spectacular products such as the Fury of the Firelord flail sitting alongside more conventional styles of adventure equipment like the Squire’s Warhammer. The creators said that gamers might soon witness recolors of famous horses like the Caravan Brutosaur.
Nevertheless, the Trading Post will not be expanding to include things that reduce player effort. Limited-time products that are not tied to gamer ability, such as classic World of Warcraft Recruit-a-Friend incentives, may make their way into the Trading Post. However, rarities like Gladiator prizes, Advance mounts, and other similar things will not. Similarly, the development team likely won’t include character modifications since they believe users should have access to such features by default.
The live conversation highlighted the importance World of Warcraft places on making the Trading Post an enjoyable, low-stakes experience. Even if the things in the Trading Post rotate out every month, World of Warcraft focuses on a mechanism to guarantee that gamers who miss out will be able to get those items in the future.
World of Warcraft is likewise checking to make sure that highly wanted things, like the color-changing Ash’adar horse, are given out as free gifts so that gamers don’t feel tempted to purchase them. The Trading Post might have further enhancements in the future based on user suggestions, such as preview catalogs of upcoming rotational products to help people budget their Trader’s Tender.
Gamers are happy that World of Warcraft is putting so much focus on the Trading Post. The functionality has been well-accepted thus far, although it is not yet fully developed. With any luck, the Trading Post in World of Warcraft will be able to realize its full potential with the passage of time and the incorporation of user input.
