Buyback Feature [Can I have it?]

[HunkaMunka]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!

Do you not see the flaw in this kind of logic???

You are treating the symptom when you should be curing the cause.

The solution is to FIX THE UI!!!!!!! so it's not a lag-infested sh!tstorm and to streamline it to make it more userfriendly.

[Jennestia]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!

Do you not see the flaw in this kind of logic???

You are treating the symptom when you should be curing the cause.

The solution is to FIX THE UI!!!!!!! so it's not a lag-infested sh!tstorm and to streamline it to make it more userfriendly.

I've never accidentally sold something due to a small latency problem with the UI so no the UI isn't completely to blame and they are working on it. You must not have played during Beta > Release, it's not a "lag infested" mechanic like it used to be, they can do only so much while it's serverside.

[Tibian]

I think the entire situation of desperately has been taken out of proportion. I never intended it to actually be "IMMEDIATE" as most of you seem to be interpreting; which is quite honestly my fault.

The buyback feature is a necessary feature of any MMO because sometimes the unfortunate happens.

However for all the mass of doom and gloom in this thread about prioritizing things... you don't make that decision, Square Enix does. If you would have read Bay's response, the buyback feature was already brought up prior to this threads creation. I could go on about how you didn't read close enough to that post because you were all worried about the word "desperately" implying an immediate fix, but I frankly don't care because it isn't productive.

I'd also like to point out, that simple features like this really do culminate into a larger picture. So each feature that we have, is like moving towards a better game. Yes its not something that should be put on 100% priority, but it should definitely be put on a list of fixes before the end of the year.

Furthermore, the popular opinion is that FFXIV has 100+ developers/artists/producers/etc all working toward the betterment of the game. Not all of these individuals will be working on the same project. Some will most likely be working only on UI fixes and developments, and nothing to do with battle reform other than the UI mechanics of the battle reform.

Overreaction on desperately? Probably on both sides of this discussion.

But the people who think adding a buyback feature is going in the wrong direction of the game, are incredibly mistaken.

[Carzilla]

thats your fault. no

[Chory]

I just sold 150k worth of apkallu down to the vendor because of the unresponsiveness of the interface / lag. What I really wanted to sell, was 1 cockatrice feather.

Why is there no buyback feature?

Is there one planned?

If not, we need a buyback feature.

Screw buyback feature, we need interface lag to be gone
... DESPERATELY

[Shiki_Lockhart]

That system can be simply like in Diablo II.
You sell a item by mistake.
You still have a chance to buy that again but for a higher price than you got it. But you can only get that in same window of vendor you opened. Meaning you get out of "Sell" and go to "buy" and the item will be there.

Now if you get out totally of vendor menus (getting back to game and move around) and go there again the item wont be there because it was refreshed. So it was your fault for not buying when you could.

Other bad luck may occur is if when you sell that item and dc, well item lost...

[thedevilsjester]

What I would like rather than a buy back system is a method to "lock" items from being accidentally sold.

[Fated]

That system can be simply like in Diablo II.
You sell a item by mistake.
You still have a chance to buy that again but for a higher price than you got it. But you can only get that in same window of vendor you opened. Meaning you get out of "Sell" and go to "buy" and the item will be there.

Now if you get out totally of vendor menus (getting back to game and move around) and go there again the item wont be there because it was refreshed. So it was your fault for not buying when you could.

Other bad luck may occur is if when you sell that item and dc, well item lost...

This actually seems like a good idea and a decent way to sink a little gil out of the economy. Maybe this will actually get players to pay attention to what they're doing.

[Venat]

Please dont add this...

Game devlopment is already slow and we dont really need this feacher cus you dont know how to play the game. Besides your getting chump change if your selling to NPC.

This would be a huge task anyway. Just think about all the NPC stores and numbers and numbers of sold items you made on every NPC. Yeah alot of saved data.

[Dekken]

I agree 100% with a buyback feature, but It can wait till more important issues in the game are delt with based on how difficult and time consuming it will be to implement. Like server lag. But Buyback is a HUGE yes. Good idea.