Hey Chris how is that player interaction trading working out? Ow Wait

Here are some examples of what I face daily when trying to buy something in this broken trading system.


hey i would like to buy your item listed on poe trade for X amount of currency.

"sorry I am in prophecy and not switching to standard"

Ok next seller

hey i would like to buy your item listed on poe trade for X amount of currency.

"Sorry doing labs sorry doing maps"

hey i would like to buy your item listed on poe trade for X amount of currency.

"sorry I am in prophecy and I am not switching just to sell you an item"

Next one

hey i would like to buy your item listed on poe trade for X amount of currency.

"That player is not logged in"

hey i would like to buy your item listed on poe trade for X amount of currency.

"That player is AFK"


hey i would like to buy your item listed on poe trade for X amount of currency.

Party invite WOOO HOOOO ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT!!!
Whats the name of the item again? ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm your current name is different from poe trade so I don't know which item, ok after 4 minutes I found the item.

Player "That item is sold sorry not seeing it, seems like the usual Poe trade bug"

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

Good one Chris, yeah your method really works better than an Auction House. So much player interaction here.

This statement makes it obvious you are playing on Standard. Currently 14 active trade channels on Standard Prophecy with a nearly instant respond time from any I try whisper on poe.trade.

There is interaction there, they don't want to sell to you.

Trading was suppose to be more barter based, but like all things people try to do the thing of least resistance, which defaults to as close to a marketplace type of system as possible.


Just because you think that automation is good, doesn't make it good. If you decide to play in standard, your going to have a harder time finding trades not only because the league just started but because people are less willing to stop what they are doing to make small trades regardless.


I also don't see how this isn't feedback...

And the best one of all

I would like to buy your item listed for X amount of Chaos

click accept for party invite.

Visit my HO

Hi sir I am here I have your chaos in hand.

Seller "whats the name of the item again?"

I post the name of the item.

Seller "hmmm I am not seeing it looks like it has been sold"

AHAHHHAHAHA got to love these player interactions, wasting time really is the way to go.

I feel bro.
Same things happened to me also.
They dont switch from league to standard..etc cause they UBER ELITES ...they think they are,they f pro,and if they switch to sell something and lose 1 min,they lose there position in leader :))
This game sux,wtih this patch sux balls

Your tone is self defeating, but you're right about the trade system being a mess. I keep seeing threads on reddit asking players to change their habits, and that's just pointless. It's on GGG to create a situation where players don't have to do a bunch of extra work to prevent items being listed in leagues that they aren't playing in.

Off the top of my head, showing online status on a per-league basis would cut off a large amount of player frustration and is probably low hanging fruit. Cross instance trading should be able to facilitate trades when in the lab, in a rota or busy mapping. That's probably a lot more work but it's severely overdue.

I'd go as far as to say releasing the updated API without solving at least the problem of items showing up in other leagues was irresponsible.

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goetzjam wrote:

There is interaction there, they don't want to sell to you.

Trading was suppose to be more barter based, but like all things people try to do the thing of least resistance, which defaults to as close to a marketplace type of system as possible.


Just because you think that automation is good, doesn't make it good. If you decide to play in standard, your going to have a harder time finding trades not only because the league just started but because people are less willing to stop what they are doing to make small trades regardless.


I also don't see how this isn't feedback...

Yeah then let GGG remove standard if its so bad.

I do not play leagues, its not my thing. I play this game for standard, [Removed by Support]

Sorry I will stick to standard and enjoy all my "player interactions" don't worry I love it lots of interactions.

I especially love the "player is not logged in" and "Player is afk" interactions

Trust me those are the best.

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ocjaamal wrote:

I feel bro.
Same things happened to me also.
They dont switch from league to standard..etc cause they UBER ELITES ...they think they are,they f pro,and if they switch to sell something and lose 1 min,they lose there position in leader :))
This game sux,wtih this patch sux balls

Yup what a major fail.

And the best part is the trolls come here to tell you its your fault for playing standard.

AHAHAHAAHA its a crime to play standard now in POE? ROFL

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If it's not worth your time to trade, then don't trade.

See... if trading becomes too easy, everyone would have access to it, rather than only those willing to put up with the faults in this crazy system. Everyone trading in a fluid manner would really ruin the game. You'd quickly see that nothing really has any value, and the only reason people are trading at all is because it's easier than storing stuff.

If there were easy trading in this game EVERYTHING would drop in price to 0... or as near to is as we could get.