How many of you are like me and are actually excited to run into a merchant along the way to sell your unwanted chit?
Well especially if I see a specialty merchant or a "wandering merchant" I think he or she has something no other vendor has that
I may be a lucky one for the day to catch them on the road or something...but NOOOOOO....you can't even click on them, inaccessible,
nadda...well what's the friggen point? Get us all excited for nothing, we have junk to sell, and the dude or lady doesn't want our chit, and has no chit to sell, PLEASE stop putting merchant or vendor or trader over their heads then, it's annoying to me!!!! You may say it's put there for future use, b.s., put a dancing bunny in it's place then just NOT a trader! That's all. Good day.
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Personally would I rather not have symbols over the head at all, it should be easy to see who is a vendor in the game (signs or wares spread out on a stall or blanket should be a dead giveaway). If all you see in the window of a shop is vegetables it is probably not the vendor to go to for a sword.
Symbols were important in games like Meridian 59 where tho old graphics made details like that hard to see but in a modern MMO you can show us instead of telling us.
What .. you have to "run" back to sell your stuff? I thought teleports (or a pet who can sell for you like in TL2) were "invented" a long time ago.
But virtual worlds sometimes don't, but then you know this yet continue to keep baiting the same hook.
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And if this is bait .. are you the fish? Seems like you are "hooked"?
Bonus though, should have plenty of time to "mozy" (mosie?) my way around
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If the "useless vendor" in question has a name, a personality and a well thought out backstory that gives insight to why they won't even talk to player characters then it's perfectly fine with me.
I'd be extremely impressed if when you tried to talk with said NPC it opened up new dialogue options with other NPCs in the game which lead to a side quest that eventually unlocks that "useless vendor" and turns them into a very useful vendor of rare items you can't get any other way.
But a generic broken NPC that serves no function? That's just sloppy game development imo.
Will we ever get back to the days when most players cared who the NPCs were and why they were trading with us?
Probably not.
I care but I know I'm in the minority these days.
Having someone that looks like a trader, say nothing and just sell bell peppers for no apperant reason is another matter. That just sucks.
I did like the apple seller in GW2 that suddenly started to sing a little song about apples, that is good enough... They at least put some effort into it and made the world feel slightly more alive.