Sunday, March 10, 2013

Trade limits increase!

MtGO used to have limit of 32 items per trade, then it was extended to 75 items per trade, but still it was not enough. Especially for moving bulk cards from one account to another. However, at the end of 2012, WotC was exploring what effects raising the current trade limit might have on the general health of the Magic Online ecosystem. After reviewing the risks, WotC decided to raise the trade limit in a single trade transaction from 75 items to 400 items. The changes enter into force on March 27.

Its incredible news. Great majority of players didn't know about such trade limits. I remember the countless situations when someone sold me 75 cards, but didn't open the second trade because he thought it is all what my bot needed from him. The same with selling mode, someone picking cards worth over 75 Event Tickets and typing done. Bot took up to 75 Event Tickets and stucked, not proceeding further. It usually ended up writing in chat window by customer 'stupid bot' etc. Fortunately, no more confusion!

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12 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 10, 2013 at 1:51 AM

    great news for bulkbots and "whole collection sellers"

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  2. UnknownMarch 10, 2013 at 1:59 AM

    also for full set buyers/sellers.
    now u can also pay a force of will foil in a single transactions without being scammed.

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  3. AlbertMarch 10, 2013 at 3:18 AM

    And for not manufacturers too! You no longer need to implement the 'credit me' function to sell cards like Force of Will !

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  4. UnknownMarch 10, 2013 at 4:55 AM

    and for bots using "buying using wishlist" which often pick 75 cards and then unpick 30-40 because they are different unwanted sets, making frustrating trades of 30 cards at a time (always unpicking the same 40 cards)

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  5. AlbertMarch 10, 2013 at 11:48 AM

    Cannot wait :) . Still 2 weeks

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  6. UnknownMarch 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM

    i wouldnt mind trade limit of 1000.
    would end up with the whole "buying collection crap"

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  7. mtgoSoSMarch 10, 2013 at 4:17 PM

    It somehow assures me that P9 introduced in summer will be very limited thus prices will be skyhigh, prolly close to 350-400 or even more..

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  8. AlbertMarch 11, 2013 at 2:50 AM

    Good guess. Wotc could have raised the limit to better fit the value of P9. Will we expect P9 to be priced around 350-400 tixs? I remember '75' was chosen because it is the size of a deck (60 cards) plus the sideboard (15 cards), so it made comfortable to transfer decks.
    Either, 400 could be the size of a set...(save for the Prm set of course)

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  9. UnknownMarch 11, 2013 at 3:20 AM

    maybe they are just "helping" people spending the new increased fee to redeem sets :) (looking for more profits afterall ) :P

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  10. AlbertMarch 11, 2013 at 10:29 AM

    Yes! Never forget that WotC is here to earn money :) (ouch! so sad to say!)

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  11. TeamstogeMarch 13, 2013 at 7:04 AM

    Well either way if its more money for Wotc or if it just making us bot owners more money and easier or just makes the average players life easier it's a plus. I have been waiting for this day for a while. 400 kind of came out of left field, I personally thought they would go to 300 though but, as stated before there must be a reason.

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  12. GregMarch 29, 2013 at 9:58 PM

    Can MTGOLibrary already handle the new limit?

    I noticed that it has problems and stalls when doing auto-trading of >100 event tickets -- is this because a third digit is added?

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