Scamming is an issue.

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j33bus wrote:

Scamming is a feature that GGG likes. They make trading as boring and as bad as possible while still the primary form of progression, which makes scamming really great to get all the people who are bored playing the core aspect of the game so they can get back to the fun side stuff.

In the end GGG refuses to solve the scamming issue because the like it and want people to scam people. It's all part of their great plans to hurt trade not by making trade less of a core feature of the game, but just by doing a bad job at making the core features of their game.

You've been around for long enough to know that that's not true. Scamming is an unfortunate result of their choice to keep trade as tedious as it is. There are systems in place to stop scamming from being possible, if only people would actually use them instead of ignoring them, getting scammed and pointing the finger at anyone but themselves.

Your greed, your impatience, your lack of attention, that is what gets you scammed.

Use TFT for service trades, then you can actually report scammers with proofs and they are going to be banned. Always check account age before trading on TFT to avoid new accounts made for scam.

The game needs an in game system for an in game problem. OK, you can't have out of game retaliation against someone who is just playing a character that's perfectly in line with a "dirty exile".

Still, there needs to be a way to have a reputation in-game and have repercussions for that reputation, because some who scams in a "real world" version of Wraeclast would soon find themselves strung up from a lamp-post. Exiles are quite happy to kill each other over a lot smaller things than trade scamming.

I'd suggest some sort of feedback system for trade, but with the following restrictions:
1: You have to have completed a trade, to avoid review bombing style attacks
2: You only get one negative vote, on the basis that you would never trade with someone again if they gave you a bad experience
3: Negative votes can be negotiated between the parties, on the basis that someone can make amends and get the negative cancelled to at least neutral
4: No messaging, forum posts or other out of game harassment stuff. It's still a game.

Whenever you trade with someone, their feedback shows up in the trade window, and it's buyer beware after that.

It will never happen of course.

Scamming doesn't exist in PoE, you don't have to hit accept if you don't think it's a fair trade.

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lolbreeze wrote:

Scamming doesn't exist in PoE, you don't have to hit accept if you don't think it's a fair trade.

Just had scamming attempt.

Scammer requests to buy Doctor card for 8.5ex.
Showed 8ex and 30c, canceled
Said he (she) gonne get more chaos
Then trade and placed 1ex and 50c

I even not placed card.
loled and reported as scam attempt.

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Mal_function wrote:

The game needs an in game system
I'd suggest some sort of feedback system for trade, but with the following restrictions:
1: You have to have completed a trade, to avoid review bombing style attacks
2: You only get one negative vote, on the basis that you would never trade with someone again if they gave you a bad experience
3: Negative votes can be negotiated between the parties, on the basis that someone can make amends and get the negative cancelled to at least neutral
4: No messaging, forum posts or other out of game harassment stuff. It's still a game.

All this would do is change the rules that people would scam by. Scammers would still scam, and victims would still be victims. People would abuse any system you could think of, so why bother? I could make 50 accounts and trade with you giving you a negative review on each trade... just for kicks. Would you like that? Probably not.