We need an auction house

Again, still nothing about the game itself and no real explanation on how AH would incentivize collusion and price-fixing in the PoE in comparison to the current barter system.

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kentrylix wrote:

Again, still nothing about the game itself and no real explanation on how AH would incentivize collusion and price-fixing in the PoE in comparison to the current barter system.

...it was self-explanatory.

and to be clear, i didn't say it would incentivize it. i suggested it would make price fixing ACTUALLY POSSIBLE.

what it would further incentivize is botting.

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robmafia wrote:

it's hard (nearly impossible) to collude and fix prices in the current system because IT'S A BARTER SYSTEM.

with automation, all they need to do is make their collusion agreement and the AH itself literally can do the rest for them.

...what part of this is too complicated for you to grasp?

if you have a game and your intended or existing trading system allows a group of players with some 100k to a million chaos to buy off certain items in a relatively short time to sell them more expensive, it's crap.

they can't implement the console trading stuff into the main realm cause the pc version allows free accounts while the console system makes it more difficult.

This was my bandaid solution to a makeshift AH that doesn't impede on GGG's profits: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2477706

But it got hopelessly buried, so I don't know if GGG even saw it and/or if the community agrees with that possibility.