You mentioned the difficulty of it… Again this is from your programming background:
You said I can’t do non connected realms and you are wrong because I absolutely can.
BoA still gets sent cross realm in mail… So, it is a matter of switchs.
Who cares with you spreading nonsense.
This feels like defletion from the devs. The mechanics are in place because I can send items with the BoA attribute tag to my alt on a different realm. If they can send it with the BoA tag, they can send it without the BoA tag.
More likely they simply do not want to allow free-for-all mailing of non-soulbound items and that’s the real reason they don’t allow it, but in-fact they already have transfers for person-to-person transfers. As someone stated if you have trusted friends across realms or simply have 2 accounts you can run simultaneously, then you can work around this. For everyone else, allowing mail cross-realm would even the playing field.
Fair enough point, although as noted, those with 2 accounts can (and likely will) take advantage of arbitrage situations for large profit. To avoid that nonsense, the devs should just make the AH region-wide for everything that can be posted as well as allow cross-realm mailing.
because the most recent change only applies to “in person” trading, not to mail
letting everyone freely mail gold/items anywhere could have a negative impact on many server economies.
Already happening…
ya there are work arounds with multiple accounts but that is a very small percentage of players.
Ok, or friends or family you can trust. I got a bunch of great deals already myself.
Either way, I thought they stated the new thing for this game is being inclusive.
Or it’s the truth and you just don’t like it.
That’s for your account, not cross realm to other people, which is also entirely different.
Or it’s just going to take longer and you need to learn patience, because we don’t code the game.
probably just a technical limitation vs a conscious design choice since you can bypass that by using a middleman character.
Yep! Eventually they may work on it. Just depends on how much has to go into it. We’ve already seen how messed up cross realm trading went. When they say that mail is more complicated, that could mean even worse consequences for all we know.
Probably something they’ll do in the future. They make these big systemic changes and they have a lot of potential to break stuff, so they do it bit by bit.
While i understand mailing and tradIng are two different things, it would still be a nice feature to add. This was the point of the OP.
I would love to have cross server mailing, but after seeing the mess that was cross server trading…I have my doubts that they could do it properly and with very little mess.
It’s a different mechanic. They’ve never said cross realm mailing would be released for all items.