This game needs an automated, in-game trading system

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DerHuhnTeufel wrote:

I'd also like to see the post where GGG says that. If anything, PoE has a huge problem with currency flippers and fake listings where people never have to sell anything but can still show up, flooding the market with bad info just so they can snipe the occasional noob. If you actually had to put up what you were saying you were a lot of that would go away overnight.

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Digitt6 wrote:

So Poe.trade is great for what it is. But my issue is I firstly am clicking whisper, going back into my game, pressing enter and then cntrl-v. And I have to do this tons of times hoping someone will reply. When they do, you gotta invite themn to a party and visit their hideout then do the trade, and also you have to interact with them, and this also means the seller has to leave their current area to go to their hideout and look in their stash.

All of this is a mission.

What I propose is this:

You have a stash tab where everything you put in can be sold. Like you do currently with a premium tab. Including right clicking and choosing the currency you want to sell for. "Make me an offer" can also be an option in which case one can whisper you and do the old-school current trade system.

then you have a vendor in-game who sells items on trade. it has a search function exactly like poe.trade. Except when you want an item, you just buy it like you would a normal vendor. the currency goes into the sellers stash and they get notified, and you have your item. No interacting or shenanigans.

If POE want to make it only for people who have a currency and premium tab, so be it. I'd rather pay for this system. This is coming from someone who is using procurement right now because I'm unemployed.

this makes much more sense to me. I don't know if it's difficult to implement coding-wise, but to me if you're doing poe.trade and everyones items are already stored on your servers I don't see why it can't work.

thanks :)

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vio wrote:

not having fixed prices for certain items is a desired effect. sellers just taking the lowest price from the system and underbid it to "sell fast" would put downward pressure on items (making most of them worthless). the effect is strong already due to restricted space.

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deteego wrote:

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almostdead wrote:

but it is also a fact that GGG has stated that the current trade is in a critical state because poe.trade makes it too efficient.

Do you have a link to this? (this stance isn't surprising, they probably aren't too happy about poe.trade although I want to know what their opinion of it is)

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DerHuhnTeufel wrote:

I'd also like to see the post where GGG says that.

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The existing community tools (combined with our public stash tab API) already put us pretty far down this spectrum, compared to the old days of trade chat. We already view this as a crisis. That is why we are hesitant to add more convenience features.

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Trading: Still under experimentation. GGG is considering data and ideas generated from the trade system in Xbone and China, but are very careful to finalize changes as they understand any of these changes will have far reaching and potentially destructive effects on the current trade paradigm.

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HousePet wrote:

Ummm... If PoE is a game designed with trading in mind, then how is it that a third party trading site is too efficient for the game?

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HousePet wrote:

So they had trading in mind with the design, but failed to realise that a third party trading site would appear and cause them to lose control of trading?

Either they didn't have it in mind, or they stuffed up.