From posting on the official forums, soliciting in trade chat, and through the use of tools such as Warframe.Market for the purpose of trading, a local system Tenno has accelerated the process of finding new players to add to their ignore list. Digital Extremes has not yet announced any plans on expanding the ignore list’s current capacity, leaving the lone Tenno with the hard choice of becoming vulnerable to the past or defenseless against the future.

It’s an all too familiar situation which RainyDayVote, MR 15, has found herself in. A simple message of “WTS Blind Rage 30p” onto the Warframe in-game Trade Chat brings in a slow drip of other Tenno interested in the trade. The struggle to complete the trade begins. The next sixty minutes will determine if she gains the desired 30 Platinum today or if the Blind Rage will continue to depreciate in her inventory until the next day. With a rather lukewarm initial reaction of polite “hello” and “hi” messages which do not include a buy offer, RainyDayVote decides to revise her advertisement in Notepad. Two minutes pass by as she patiently waits to resubmit her updated trade message. As soon as her timer app reaches 0, RainyDayVote pastes her new message:

“~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ WTS Blind Rage (30 ) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~”

The responses trickle in. This is where her struggle begins and when the ignore list gains a few new names.

“Hi! What rank is it?” Not going to bother responding. “would you be interested in trading for other mods?” Ignored. “20p” Ignored. “lol 30 is too high you should try warframe.market” Ignored. “I’ll sell for 30” Ignored. Argh! I said WTS not WTB! “do u have trans too?” Ignored. “wftrading says 20 not 30” Ignored. “30 for rank 8 or rank 0?” Ignored.

At this point, 120 seconds have passed and it’s time to resubmit the message. Satisfied with the quantity of responses, she uses the same message again. This process is then repeated for as long as it takes to make the sale. Her only solace in this increasingly impossible task is the addition of the “Close All” functionality for chat tabs to help clear out the chat window. Without that, several precious seconds would be wasted on each window which could accumulate into minutes over the course of a single trading session and potentially costing the opportunity of securing the desired trade.

Over twenty minutes have now passed as she continues to sift through responses and resubmitting her advertisement to trade chat. “Sometimes it takes a while.” explained RainyDayVote to our correspondent. “When you’re looking to make a good trade you have to sift through a lot of bad offers. To cut down on the time wasted on those, it’s best to just place them on ignore. It’s even worse when you don’t list a specific price and people dare to get upset when I take the time to reply ‘no thanks’ rather than ignoring them.”

RainyDayVote’s ignore list is nearing full capacity and unless Digital Extremes addresses this issue she will soon find herself at great risk if she continues to trade with other players. Without the security of the ignore function, she’ll be forced to respond to players and either haggle or refuse trading offers directly. “I don’t think I’m the only one.” postulated RainyDayVote in regards to the scope of this issue. “I think the community understands very well that by placing someone on ignore during a trade it asserts that they have to improve their offerings and find new people to trade with. When someone ignores me I just look for a better offer or improve my own. It’s just how it works.”

At press time, sources report RainyDayVote was no longer receiving any new replies for her trade advert after fifty minutes and having placed the entirety of the NA East region chat list on her ignore list.