Curse

go cubs · Mar 19, 2011, 03:14 PM // 15:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Surgo

How does that affect my idea at all, which is completely different to GWEstimator? o_O

Yeah, it doesnt. I like your idea a lot, just not sure about the EULA. Argos is a decent site for now but I think if your site came up, I would prefer it.

Surgo · Mar 19, 2011, 04:03 PM // 16:03

Does anyone know the email address of the GWEstimator guys? I can't seem to find it on their website, but if we can work together I can completely avoid coming anywhere close to the EULA (they could just pipe me their messages, or I could add the app to their website).

milkopilko · Mar 19, 2011, 05:06 PM // 17:06

maybe they will see this thread? xd

BlackAngel · Mar 20, 2011, 06:29 PM // 18:29

I really like the GWEstimator site as an idea, and use it myself occasionally to PC low-end stuff. But. Is anyone else bit disturbed about the fact that everyone's character names are there whether you like - or even know - about it or not? Our character names are part of our GW account security and I for one don't like the idea that my character name is plastered in the internet just because I like to sell in Kamadan.

This also brings up another problem, few days ago I received PM in-game from person I've never had any contact with as far as I know. This person was asking me about an item I was selling over a month ago, even asked do I still have the same price on it. This got me thinking, I typed that item into GWEstimator and lo and behold, there it was me selling it at around the that time, with my in-game name, item details and the same price this person mentioned. Only place I ever was selling this item was in Kamadan, so GWEstimator would've been the only source of them getting the information.

Therefore this leads to another problem of getting random PM's from random people about random stuff you sold maybe ages ago. If I want to get PM's about items, I make Guru sell thread, I'm not too thrilled about the idea of just getting questions about long-gone items out of nowhere.

tl;dr: I don't think it's good idea to have character names in GWEstimator.

Edit: I apologize for the partial thread hi-jacking, but if you're planning on something similar, this might be a thing you want to consider also.

Fay Vert · Mar 20, 2011, 10:12 PM // 22:12

Best not to go in any outposts ever, people can see your in-game name there!

stretchs · Mar 21, 2011, 02:31 AM // 02:31

Funny thing is it would be such an easy parse to remove anything between the ) and : in the messages to get rid of names if that was an issue

Dzjudz · Mar 21, 2011, 03:15 AM // 03:15

Nah, including names is good, because you can sometimes find buyers and sellers that way.

tuna-fish_sushi · Mar 21, 2011, 03:18 PM // 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackAngel

I really like the GWEstimator site as an idea, and use it myself occasionally to PC low-end stuff. But. Is anyone else bit disturbed about the fact that everyone's character names are there whether you like - or even know - about it or not? Our character names are part of our GW account security and I for one don't like the idea that my character name is plastered in the internet just because I like to sell in Kamadan.

This also brings up another problem, few days ago I received PM in-game from person I've never had any contact with as far as I know. This person was asking me about an item I was selling over a month ago, even asked do I still have the same price on it. This got me thinking, I typed that item into GWEstimator and lo and behold, there it was me selling it at around the that time, with my in-game name, item details and the same price this person mentioned. Only place I ever was selling this item was in Kamadan, so GWEstimator would've been the only source of them getting the information.

Therefore this leads to another problem of getting random PM's from random people about random stuff you sold maybe ages ago. If I want to get PM's about items, I make Guru sell thread, I'm not too thrilled about the idea of just getting questions about long-gone items out of nowhere.

tl;dr: I don't think it's good idea to have character names in GWEstimator.

Edit: I apologize for the partial thread hi-jacking, but if you're planning on something similar, this might be a thing you want to consider also.

uhmm, I could just go to kamadan and see you spamming and have your in game name? Whats the difference with being able to see it on a website? Both require a connection to the internet and one requires guildwars (but what is someone going to do with a username and no access to the game?). It doesn't tell you anything about the users password or email.
Sure you may get a pm here or there about a past item but is it really hard to say "Sorry that was from a long time ago" and move on? How often do you get these people spamming you? Plus getting your WTS/WTB advertised on gwestimator will allow you to find a buyer/seller more easily. I think its worth it for that.

Back on topic, I would find this really useful just as I find gw estimator very useful. Goodluck OP.