★ POE MARKET REVIEW - REWORKED★

The market we compete in here in the World of wraeclast is based on a frame that is out of Date since more then a couple of centuries!

In Order to succeed in poes trade System there is only one variable that judges about success and loss.

That variable is time

Although there are other ways to compete (like coming up with good build ideas purchasing 80% of the build funding uniques and selling them with great Profit, thus ruling demand)
The key to success is being online in game.

Why? Because every transaction requires both participants to be present at the Same time and location.

This reduces the efficiency of poes market by a great amount. In Times where it is completely normal for all of us to benefit from competition when it Comes to something as trivial as purchasing your daily food, i found it suprisig to See reactions like:

"Efficiency is Bad for poe"

Now, about 7 months ago i firstly realized the real weakness of this slow market. At that time i found myself runnig constantly about 20-40 atziri Sets per Day. In that time i have generated more then 50 catalysts a good amount of uber Sets not to mention the amount of belts and Boots and an occasional good unique or Rare. At that time i had the Most frequent amount of trade requests i ever got during my time at poe and for the First time, trading felt actually like a game breaking Interruption.

I found myself discovering the use of /dnds and the Like because trading became an unwelcome Interruption of grinding where i had to stop my runs at least once if i where to react to all trade requests.

So on top to poes market being a slow archaic moving construct, trading actually breaks your ingame Progression and forces you to interact with ppl in a way that cant be justified for the sake of socializing since it is Not welcome and i guess many ppl can subscripe that Statement.

-You're participating in 78 rots
-Trade request incoming
-either stop what is actually really socializing (parties, build discussions, build improvements, chatting, etc.) Or Ignore customers and loose market Access

And that is What really breaks The game fun imo. Unless you like to Stare hours at trade Chat, spend time to create parties with trade requests or the reason you play poe is for the sake of flipping items and currency, trade is interferring with ingame Progression in no good manner.

And imo that simply needs a rework!

One last Statement to it:
Yes, reworking that current System Perhaps means a shift of item values and currency value. But as allways the market will fix itself, and in a long Term view i can only See an increase if currency value. History has proven that any society Profits from its currency getting stronger and i See no negative impact here.

End of Statement

Possibilliy a)
Create a System that allows offline trading to a limited extend. Surely a 100% automated on click transaction Solution is Bad. But Perhaps make it possible to allow a prompt based transaction System where i only need to be online at forum to agree to trade requests or perform counter offers and the Like.

Possibilliy b)
Create an ingame System where trade requests are listed as a popup window filled with Information on:
Which item is requested?
What is the offer? (in currency and or items)
Add Buttons like "accept", "deny", "counter offer","busy, ill Come back to it asap"

Perhaps its even possible to create a purchase window that you can acces ingame to Review possible trade requests so there is just an annotation ingame "you have a New trade request", which you can than acces in the manner you have Access to friend lists, Party lists and the Like.

Keep the stash tab System!
In Order to increase your Chance to sell something you still require the amount of stash tabs.
Thus keeping GGG income by mtx untouched.

In the long Term one could even Come up with smartphone apps, Rating Systems so players are rewarded for fair trades etc.

But all of These changes cant be done with 3rd Party Services that ofc Dont have Access to the Client.

I would really appreciate a Review of poes trading system that currently an in the past has never been attended to by devs themselves but instead ever only by 3rd Party Services. And since trading is such a fundamental game System it needs a big amount of love imo.

Perhaps we can See some attention to it from GGG themselves. That would be really nice.

Im looking forward to New responses and reactions.

Pls just stay Kind and constructive!

MUCH APPRECIATED!

Just some thoughts i am interested to share, Though i am aware that it is very unlikely to get any response from GGG here in this Terms. Still im tempted to test it and i would appreciate it to prove me wrong.

The big question that is taunting me ever since i started to play this game back early in 2013 is:

why is GGG so madly focused on keeping the market the way it is?

From the very Moment i started to play this game up to today there has Not been a Single change to the way this inchangable-and-inventionresistant market functions.

Every Single transaction requieres a face to face trade between market shareholders from all over the World. One does Not have to study Business Management and the Like to understand that These archaic structures reduce the efficient cashflow ingame by a huge amount.

Take real life jobs, families, school lessons, studies and the Like into count (not to mention different time Zones! ) and you allready have plenty of conditions that actually downgrade the poe trade efficiency by an amount that cant even really be put into numbers.

Now the funny thing is, we are Not even talking about moving matter based objects, but rather database entries that can be captured as simple integer based zeros and ones.

Now imagine a Bank Institute that would require both shareholders of any transaction to be present at the Same global time and location.

That Business concept would be Dead before even started.

The quantitude of ways modern markets arrange transactions cant even be counted and GGG makes use of it every Day a mtx is purchased via PayPal and the Like.

Funnily, once it Comes to ingame trading, the more archaic the trade System the better it seems to be ...

I removed my own Rating to this content as it Apparently prevents a proper conversation.

To explain my own Ambitions:
I really would like to See a reworked market, where i am able to put prices on things that can be traded without me being present and i Dont understand why this is such a Problem to implement.

Im looking forward to answers and reactions