xlion.3065 Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) [deleted] Edited October 29, 2023 by xlion.3065 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 I think the 'bug' was showing a discount at this time. According to the Wiki (which is edited by players) the sale was from March 01, 2023 to March 12, 2023. There seems to be several issues with the Trading Post/Gem Store since the last update. 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlion.3065 Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) As I mentioned on the discussion page of the wiki article (when/while I had the "bug")., the end date was shown as "Error: Invalid time". I assume that those dates or rather the entire table isn't manually edited but automatically created from either (batch) data import or (online) API access. Meanwhile the wiki shows "12th March 2023" and no longer "Error: Invalid time" . Also, I think it's still worth investigating why/how the Gem Store in game also showed the discount for a short period of time today, i..e is it possible that an outage of some backend system can lead to "invalid discounts" (due to a missing/invalid end date of a sale) which may "trick" people into buying stuff which they later regret because the discount wasn't actually applied on purchase? This would be a rather serious issue. Edited March 30, 2023 by xlion.3065 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) The Wiki admins state that the Gem Store History tables are only edited by players; no API or other. At least that's what they stated in the past. Again, all kinds of errors are showing up in the Trading Post/Gem Store since last patch. For errors in the Wiki, try purging the article page. Edited March 30, 2023 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlion.3065 Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 While it is possible that (a) the discount suddenly disappearing in the Gem Store and (b) the invalid sale end date on the wiki are completely unrelated, it is at least "weird" and imho worth to investigate whether there is/was a common cause, i. e. data source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) If you want the QA Team to possibly investigate, you can report in-game using the 'Bug Report' option. That will insure the QA Team sees the report. (On the forum, it's hit or miss.) Also, it is not unusual for the Wiki to display errors ever since the backend was updated (which is why one should purge when encountering an error). Good luck. Edited March 31, 2023 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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