[2019] Riven Trading & Toolbuilders: Coming Changes

Right now a lot is going on with Riven Trading discussions. Without getting into personal details, we are reviewing what took place.

As this review has unfolded, we want to experiment with applying a broader change that will prevent any individual market manipulation. This will also allow tool creators fair grounds to use clear and authorized sources of data that abides by all terms and policies.

Simply put, we will be trying out providing aggregated actual Riven trade value data for toolmakers to use. No more basing trades off of what people are posting in trade chat as asking prices, toolmakers will have access to per-platform actual Trade values.

When the data is set up we will post links and explain the update cadence / data, then toolmakers can either start or continue to provide Riven trade analysis for players. Our team has started putting everything together, I'm hoping we'll have our first release in a couple of weeks.

We are going to try doing this because we think it will allow fairer trading to occur with a standard baseline. Because Rivens vary in stats, we expect subjective value discussions to still take place.

It's worth noting that we handled this matter privately over the past two days. However in that time, there have been some instances of very mob-justice practices taking place that are below the honor of the Tenno. We all lift together - reports can be sent in to support where appropriate.

I want to remind people here to keep it civil.

This is not a place to attack other players, nor to discuss the hypotheticals behind the initial issue. There have been some questions about how this system will be implemented, and given the recent nature of this event, there are no solid answers to give you. There are a lot of moving parts, and those have to be discussed and implemented when a decision is made, but for now, we are listening. There have been some suggestions about what you would like to see, and that is a good discussion.

Let's keep this discussion moving forward as to how we can improve the system and your thoughts on what you want to see.