Where is the Auction House?

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Roxan28 wrote:

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jtggm1985 wrote:

To put it simply GGG's trade philosophy is a set of oxymorons. They want players to trade so items have value, but they don't want players to trade because it makes drops less meaningful. They design encounters around you being able to trade, then make it so trading causes you to lose your shot at other encounters you're in. They want your drops and crafts to have a value, but they pollute the loot and crafting pools with so much bloat that they're relatively worthless etc.

Bro, we already have auction house but extremely exploitable. PoE official trade site and poe.trade . I don't see the reason why they wouldn't put one inside the game where I don't need to spend 5-10 minutes spamming people, before they finally decide to send invite. just this morning, I whispered over 25 players to buy Beachhead T15 map, that's a lot of lost time doing nothing. AH inside the game would only improve the game. Instead of wasting necessary time browsing, I could buy it insantly at current market price. I don't know why are so many players against playing the game.

As for the drops and their value - If I have expensive item which i'm not using, of course I would want to sell it. It's the same thing we are doing right now via 3rd party sites. How would this decrease item value exactly? We undercut each other right now using these 3rd party sites, doing it on AH is basically another way trying to get currency (faster and less annoying way).

Long story short - It's time to enter in new gaming era, stop making us waste time browsing 3rd party sites instead of playing your GAME.

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nGio wrote:

What history did you actually experience, besides obviously reading about D3 instead of playing it? The auction house was absolutely great. The REAL MONEY auction house was what failed. I've never met anyone who actually played D3 and used the ah say anything bad about it, so I'm guessing that you did neither.

The auction house would function similar to what we have now, but I wouldn't need to minimize, I wouldn't have to spam out 50 people when currency exchanging, and I wouldn't have to get the automated "GG Thanks and GL Exile!" after trading with some level 1 char. There just isn't a downside at this point.

Prior to the release of the rmah, the auction house was very well received. Stop spreading misinformation.

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jtggm1985 wrote:

To put it simply GGG's trade philosophy is a set of oxymorons. They want players to trade so items have value, but they don't want players to trade because it makes drops less meaningful. They design encounters around you being able to trade, then make it so trading causes you to lose your shot at other encounters you're in. They want your drops and crafts to have a value, but they pollute the loot and crafting pools with so much bloat that they're relatively worthless etc.