Hilarious how even in one of the best Market-related decisions people still manage to find absolutely weird negative sides.
Gonna break some things up:
These new rules do a couple things, and none of which benefit the community:
1. Requires sellers to remake a thread after every five days, giving sellers more work to do.
Yeah, copy-pasting your earlier thread that you still can see in an archive board is definitely
a heavy burden. Smh market squad ruining it!!!
2. Prevents sellers from creating a reputation as a longtime or trusted seller. Would you buy TC from someone who made the thread within the last day with no posts, or a thread that has been up for months with several dozens posts from previous buyers?
That's literally the reason why we have verified sellers. Game staff check their sources of TC to ensure that regular users do not have to. Better for those who want to buy TC, better for those who want to sell TC because there's no way someone with shady TC starts selling at super low rates.
3. Does not allow players to cash out their TC AT ALL if they do not meet the requirements to become a verified seller, which reduces the motivation for some players to keep playing the game. Some people play the game to make money. If there is no possible way of doing this, they leave, which hurts the game.
All you have to do to get verified is not be a scammer, have TC which source you can explain and be able to read and follow rules.
Super hard, how could we come up with that. Right?
4. Prevents sellers from providing a service, selling TC on someone else's behalf, that really benefits everyone. It's common practice for players in online games to offer brokering services to others out of kindness or as an additional means of earning revenue. The whole purpose of a separate board and verified sellers is to make it safer and easier to buy TC. No one who rightfully deserves the title of verified seller would risk their title or their account to launder TC from those who obtained it through illegal means.
Player A gets verified, Player B doesn't because they get TC through betting rigs, decapprize rigs, scamming people and sometimes abusing shop exploits. Player B sends TC to Player A to sell, who don't get an additional check because they're assumed to be "clean", but then someone reports Player B who gets banned - and we need to take out
all the TC they managed to sell through Player A. Yeah, that sure benefits the community. How could we even decide to prohibit that?
Toribash still has and will have an open market, but Market Squad are going to keep making sure it's safe for use for any player and that malicious users get restrictions depending on their actions and have less ways to scam others.