Ever since the Hustler sales bar disaster the NPC Shop Discount is mega slow in kicking in. I am one of those, who always deducted the 15 % before purchase and kind of feel "entitled" to the event now that I can't do it autonomously anymore. Unfortunately every day I am almost done with all my quests (while restocking other items in between) before the event happens. This is especially annoying, when I find and would like to buy some of the expensive items in the shops. Is this a bug or was the frequency tampered with? Am I the only one still experiencing this?

I thought there was a siteupdate ping or a new thread made or something about it, because it doesn't seem to be being removed completely anymore, but I can't find anything closer than that. Long story short, it's intentional.

Thank you for the info! No, there definitely was no situpdate thread, I am subscribed to that group.

Doesn't make me happy, because I now have to spend a lot more than I used to all those years - unless they put back up the haggling again.

I feel like we got a ping at some point along the way, but probably on an obscure thread somewhere instead of you know, the forum designed for that sort of thing.