Why does GGG hate auction houses?
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I wish we had a AH too. AH was ahead of its time. Loved it.
But you can make this game like an AH. It's very easy to make money. The disadvantage is you MUST be online and manually trade. Archaic as hell but same options are there. When i play I have like 7 apps open and 6 are for trading. Git R Dun!
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people who are against auction houses love poe.trade
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PoE Trade and Acquisitions are not popular because they're good; they're popular because acquiring items in this game is a horrifying nightmare that forces the vast majority of players to be self-found casuals because it's beyond utterly impossible to find even basic resistance gear without spending dozens of hours across a week combing for the one player in four hundred and thirty-seven listings who is A.) online, B.) not charging thirty exalts for a set of iLvl 63 boots with two resists and a 10% IMS roll, and C.) ON-GODDAMN-LINE.
Yes. I get that Path was made by hardcorez for hardcorez, and this forum especially is filled with the Dwarf Fortress-style "Fun not earned, with BLOOD, is fun not had" player. There's a middle ground. Implement an in-game storefront system, and allow people, IN THE FREAKING GAME, to leave messages for other players who might be offline. Go look at Guild Wars 2's in-game mail system. Implement the absolute hell out of it, verbatim if you have to. Then you still need to meet your seller face-to-face, where he can do his best to ensure that he empties your account in exchange for his dumpy three-alch boots. You still get that oh-so-precious Player Interaction And Involvement (P.I.I.(C)). But you don't miss five hundred sales, and I don't have to completely disregard all offline listings, and I might actually be able to, y'know...sell a thing or two, or acquire gear that lets me actually cap my resists in Merciless without taking forty all resist in the tree. I get that you guys enjoy Knowing The System and being able to bleed the rest of us of all of our currency because it's impossible for casuals to sell anything on poe.trade and you can price us out of the game at your leisure, but c'mon...is that really any way to go about making a good game? She/Her
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" haha +1 you forgot PMs I got like 20 PM right now. No point in even reading them because buyers who want my warez are unlikely online. Well I'm not either. Git R Dun! Last edited by Aim_Deep#3474 on Dec 13, 2015, 10:40:12 PM
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I would like to be able to buy stuff from online players too, not having to dick around with POE trade chat which currently and always has sucked, imo. Trade chat is full of repeated spam. The same posters constantly spamming the same mostly overpriced stuff over and over for hours on end. I find it hard to buy and harder to sell my gear on TC to the point I have almost completely quit using it. There has got to be a better way. If I do manage to sell a few items on trade chat for a decent price, I see it advertised/spammed a little while later for much more. Of course, it doesn't get any buyers, because it's a rip-off. But that doesn't stop the vendors from spamming it for weeks on end! No, really ... trade chat is no good. It needs to be replaced by GGG with a much better system asap. |
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" You could have actually logged into your GGG account to say this, you know. |
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" If I worked for GGG I would of threw monitors at the balance team so they wouldn't touch the skills I'm just saying Dys an sohm
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" what's there to understand ? GGG has said it multiple times. poe.trade takes time, even though it has been as minimized as possible. you have to alt-tab, then look at thirty party site, filter the people online, message at least some of them (expecting some to be mapping/AFK/DND/in other leagues/dicks), go to town/hideout, search in stash for item/currency, etc. so each time you need something, you have the artificially introduced time sink, so you really think if its worth for you to obtain a small upgrade when leveling if its gonna take a lot of time. there is no such decision with an in-game AH. its automatically sold and bought. you can obtain surefire upgrades, no matter how incremental by going on AH and receiving item in seconds without player interaction. not to mention the whole thing can be easily automated to flip. AH thus becomes the defacto way to obtain items. the upgrades you get from actual drops becomes garbage from the get-go. granted, for the endgame that is true anyway for most part, but that is a separate 'problem' as there is no way to predict drops for poe builds. however, you still use garbage when leveling because in lots of instances, it just isnt worth the time to buy an upgrade for 10 levels. Last edited by grepman#2451 on Dec 13, 2015, 11:48:25 PM
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" AH doesn't change your drop. So the reason why people don't want an AH is because they can charge an preposterous amount of money for their garbage. Come to think of it, it is a valid argument. |
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" You really don't see the hypocrisy of people on here swearing up and down against an AH but yet use poe trade and other tools to provide the exact same benefits an AH would provide? |
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