General Discussion - Will there be free public stash in POE3? Or is the free to play players forgotten? - Forum

" mina97 wrote: I woke up this morning and saw this thread and wondered which idiot made this thread, apparently it was me. My target audience was to criticize the poe trading system and hope for improvement but somehow my thread title baits the free to play arguments from other threads here, well at least people are reading my thread. I cant reply to all of the comments, but I have read them and found them pretty accurate but I want to explain why I posted this thread. Spoiler My siblings left this game because they do not have access to the poe trade, making them not earning currency and are not buying good equips to make poe fun, they thought poe is hardcore like a dark souls game and quit. I told them to buy premium stashes, and they said mmorpg XXXX and XXXXX are free to play and you will never have to buy stashes and indeed they are correct but however they have not even realized how fun poe is with all those equips comboes, enchanted equips, vaal implicits, useful unique equips that cannot have crafted modifiers, these are stuffs completely unique and original ideas that cannot be found in other mmorpgs. Now imagine how many players have quit the game because they thought poe is a hardcore game. If only poe has some sort of time limited trial public stash or an only one equipment slot public stash just to let all these new players try out the market and poe trade, maybe they will stay and even buy 1 or 2 premium stash, but for now, premium stash is completely locked out of them yet GGG tells them it is free to play game so they thought they should not be buying anything and hence have a horrible game play experience. For all those pros saying they can complete the endgames without trading, well, not everyone is that hardcore, not everyone spends that much time on gaming. I have checked out free poe trading application called acquisition, again, it works, but look at the youtube guide on it, my siblings will just ignore me and play other games that actually have a normal trading system. " macsdf1: Free pub stash would mean even more bots. Banned bots/accts would have super easy reaccess, meaning even more easy price fixing Spoiler Well probably the most relevant reply to my topic. I agree with your statement, I do not want more trading bots. Players telling me to buy premium stashes, actually I will skip quoting them, too many of them, lol. Spoiler 1. Buying premium stashes yet telling friends to play this free to play game seems phony. 2. Gaining advantage over other players with cash, now how low can you get... 3. I play poe because I like mapping or other gameplay contents, not trading. Actually I don't disagree with the argument you make about perhaps more tabs might help retention of new customers. However, only GGG has the ability to crank the data on that decision and to come to an informed decision. I would like to assume that they have done that and decided on the current course? Over 430 threads discussing labyrinth problems with over 1040 posters in support (thread # 1702621) Thank you all! GGG will implement a different method for ascension in PoE2. Retired!	Posted by Turtledove#4014 on Mar 11, 2020, 3:23:53 AM Quote this Post
" just keep creating mule accounts - average forum poe user. this, upon several threads regarding this dead horse the conclusion is the same right zealots? "Parade your victories, hide your defeats. Mortals are so insecure." Once you break the cycle of fear no angels or demons can whisper you their sweet nothing words. poe2 = ruthless 2.0 = bad. Last edited by Xystre#4581 on Mar 11, 2020, 6:10:04 AM	Posted by Xystre#4581 on Mar 11, 2020, 6:09:23 AM Quote this Post
The reason POE is on of the best A-RPG now is because GGG make money and can keep working hard on POE. F2P game offer you those choice : - Playing free with limitation - Spending ~20$ to get rid of limitation. Still a very cheap game - Spending a lot of money because you can. If limitation doesn't exist and most people keep playing free like you guys, the game is dead. I hope you are aware of that. Or maybe you prefer to spend 60$ for a non-F2P game instead of spending 20$ on stash ? Worth ? Last edited by Deonbekende#4380 on Mar 11, 2020, 6:29:32 AM	Posted by Deonbekende#4380 on Mar 11, 2020, 6:24:28 AM Quote this Post
If only F2P players could either post their items for sale in the relevant forum with price tags or use Acquisition to do it for them and have them indexed on trade sites just like if they'd put them in a public tab... The whole not be able to trade without a public stash tab argument is complete drivel. Last edited by Randall#0850 on Mar 11, 2020, 7:34:18 AM	Posted by Randall#0850 on Mar 11, 2020, 7:32:13 AM Quote this Post
Pay $15 once off and never worry again. Support the game with a minimal investment.	Posted by poeGT#1333 on Mar 11, 2020, 8:35:18 AM Quote this Post
In the USA we have to wait until after November elections to know if we can/will get a "public option". I'm still processing the huge change that PoE 2 will bring going from links on items to links on gems. Thinking what GGG might do for PoE 3 is totally way off my radar. "You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..." Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration. The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070	Posted by Arrowneous#3097 on Mar 11, 2020, 8:50:23 AM Quote this Post
" Necrotekk wrote: " cjimaras wrote: " KopaKabana wrote: no this isnt a frreeloader, Santa Theresa game Go beg somewhere else, pal Because POE is advertising as Free 2 Play game? All this whiteknightism makes me puke all over my office! First off, try aiming at the garbage can Secondly, can you please tell me what part of this game you cannot do without payment? What part of this game can ONLY be done via paying. I'm not talking about things being harder, I am talking about content that cannot be accessed without payment that affects the gameplay. Trading. And don't start me "you can trade in game". No, you can't using the trade channel. It is bloody mess. Even GGG don't use it. BTW GGG is not using their OFFICIAL forums too. Gosh... Imagine ppl still supporting this game...	Posted by cjimaras#5882 on Mar 11, 2020, 9:19:10 AM Quote this Post
" cjimaras wrote: Trading. And don't start me "you can trade in game". No, you can't using the trade channel. It is bloody mess. Even GGG don't use it. BTW GGG is not using their OFFICIAL forums too. Gosh... Imagine ppl still supporting this game... Please explain how you need to pay to trade when you can either post items to a trade thread or use Acquisition, either of those methods will have your items indexed on the trade sites without having to pay a penny. If you're too stubborn to use those methods or can't be bothered to spend the time doing it that's down to you. Last edited by Randall#0850 on Mar 11, 2020, 10:23:44 AM	Posted by Randall#0850 on Mar 11, 2020, 10:21:03 AM Quote this Post
" RandallPOE wrote: If only F2P players could either post their items for sale in the relevant forum with price tags or use Acquisition Have you tried actually setting up Acquisition lately? This is a non-argument. -- I don't have alpha access, that was a LONG time ago.	Posted by Zakaluka#1191 on Mar 11, 2020, 1:38:58 PM Alpha Member Quote this Post
" Zakaluka wrote: " RandallPOE wrote: If only F2P players could either post their items for sale in the relevant forum with price tags or use Acquisition Have you tried actually setting up Acquisition lately? This is a non-argument. So go direct to the forum and post your items that way - it's very simple once you've set up a template with a few tags. There's also Procurement which is updated every league if Acquisition is a pita. Last edited by Randall#0850 on Mar 11, 2020, 2:01:35 PM	Posted by Randall#0850 on Mar 11, 2020, 1:58:02 PM Quote this Post