New Controller Trade Market is a Disaster

While 0.5 seems great so far, the new controller version of the trade market is just very disappointing - especially compared to how well the previous UI worked.

First of all, it is not a controller-optimized trade market, it is a completely different UI. Like the general UI flow is very different from the trade website or the PC market UI... So we need to learn the whole UI from scratch?

Then there's dropdown menus everywhere. Unlike in the previous UI, you cannot enter text to find what you're looking for. Like if I want to buy a Logbook for instance, you expect me to scroll through an UNSORTED dropdown with like 50 entries to find it? In the previous UI, I could just quickly enter "Log" via the virtual keyboard and then select the Logbook suggestion.

Then there's no shortcuts for text input, for instance in the "Specific Item Type" or "Stat Filters". When you're in the 1000+ items list, you have to scroll all the way up to enter a filter. Why not use Left Stick Press like in pretty much all other UIs?

And then there's the non-functional filter groups. They literally don't work. Like how do I specify the desired count in a "Count" group? Or how do I sort by the sum when using a "Weighted Sum" group?

And the general sort options don't include pseudo stats... Like if I filter by "+#% Total To Cold Resistance" for instance, I am unable to sort by that.

Finally, I gotta say that compared to the previous version, the new one just looks very "cheap" - like a it does not fit the style of the other UIs in the game.


Overall just very disappointed - especially since the previous UI was so nice and worked really well...

This new version is not unsalvageable i guess - but it needs a bunch of work. However, providing an option to toggle between this and the previous UI would be the best option by far!

no price chaecker that i could find. why did they lie so much.

There is a price checker but you have to put your item in a stash first and then you can price check. Yes it is completely absurd! One another poor UI/UX design from GGG. Not the first one and for sure not the last :(

I'm also completely agree with mexxpower, it's just terrible UI :(

true, 100%. I was disgusted when I realized how it looks like..
At least give option for controller - PC players to have other UI, or use mouse&keyboard

+1

Totally agree. The old UI was so much better and did fit the game. The new one looks and feels like a third party extension

It feels like a work-in-progress thing that was not ready in time for release but was included by accident.

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superdreddie#9796 wrote:

It feels like a work-in-progress thing that was not ready in time for release but was included by accident.

Feels like it, but it was included on purpose. But seems like nobody reviewed it?

Kelly_GGG: "The Price Checker and revamp of the trade UI for gamepad and console players will be coming to 0.5.0." (on Twitter on May 26: https://x.com/kiwijuicing/status/2059160186930225345)

The new trade window is so unintuitive - I hope it will feel better with familiarity - to be almost unusable.

Please, GGG, PLEASE, revert the console trade UI until it’s fully ready for deployment.

We want to be able to search for shit. Buttonizing everything makes it feel like a mobile game. It is genuinely terrible to interact with and makes me wonder if it was tested at all before deployment. It’s frustrating as hell to interact with.