Sometimes people buy and sell things really fast, and you can’t buy the cheapest option, because it’s already been bought when you click it. What you do instead is you choose one of the more expensive ones, listed underneath. It’s often just a couple of gold so it doesn’t matter.
The problem is that right now, the game automatically mark the entire range of price stocks listed between them. Sometimes that stock amounts to tens of thousand, worth hundreds of thousand, or even millions of gold.
You have to do something, or else the game assumes you want to spend massive amounts of gold. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Sometimes when I don’t pay full attention, I click the item I want, realize it’s being bought and sold too fast, I click something underneath, then “buy”, and the game asks: Are you sure you want to buy x378284 for 340 000 gold? And I can correct my mistake.
Last night I wasn’t paying attention, and this time I was tired as well. I spent close to 80% of my entire accounts gold on something that I don’t need. Is this really a good thing? I’m not a generally confused or clumsy person, but this has happened several times, and this time it went through. Why is it a standard setting to include the entire stock? Why is that the first assumption? With just one warning, that looks identical to the warning when you buy 1 item?
The assumption should be the other way around: those who want to spend massive amounts, should also have to type in the massive numbers. One should knowingly do it.
And no, I am not saying it’s someone else’s fault. I made the mistake. But I am questioning why it is designed the way it is. I know I am not the first person to make this mistake.
Edit: This isn’t related to the PTR but I didn’t know where to put it.