Auction house, good compromise, PETITION

As a casual player i lose so many hours on flipping currency or buying consumable item. If you, ggg dont want to make fully functional AH give us AH for consumable items only. It wont kill bargaing but will it make game smoother and funner. I'm so bored of trading system and all this 3rd's program needed to make it playable... And if you want to write "Go SSF" just dont. I dont want to play ssf and i'm 100% sure that most casual player's have same issue. Time i have between work and family i like to spend on map not in HO trading tons of 1C items to aford for somehting.

EDIT:
I don't know if it will help, but sitting idle will not. Therefore, I invite all interested parties to sign a petition for the auction house game to be added. It does not specify how it should happen or how it should work, but only expresses our need for the auction house to be in the game.


Petition link:
https://chng.it/Bnwc4HcB5H



Edit2:
Please, if you support the initiative, sign the petition and pass it on. Maybe its result will democratically show whether we are in the majority or maybe in the minority.

Edit3:
A video recorded by KobeBlackMamba sharing the same opinion of all of us about the lack of a market in the game like w do. Actual traiding was fun maybe 9 years ago. But now is the pain in the ass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_GqC_Zlds&t=2s

I'm going to blow your mind:

POE has an auction house, it's called the Forbidden Trove on discord.

But it's essentially a gated community that serves established players. So there's a shitty auction house for some of us, and an even shittier experience for the overwhelming majority of players.

Chris Wilson says that the Auction House would reduce total playtime and therefore reduce money spent on the game, but he also said that the people who play around in the endgame spend the most money, and those are the people who use TFT.

([Removed by Support] TFT is proof that Auction Houses function to increase engagement for the people who have them).

Hi,
thx you for your replying and involvement. I know TFT and i'm useing it. But this is another example of, 3rd's program / environment needed to sell items. I have alot of scarabs or essensces that i dont selling coz they have worth of 0.5C and time needed to back to hideout and trade 2 for 1 C to some guys does not calculate at all. Trading in this game is biggest issue. This is general reason why i or other casual's stop playing 2, 3 week after league start. It's getting painful.

We have 2022, every new user in order to play properly PoE need to have a few external tools?

Now imagine playing on a console? You can search market items in the game? Did you know that? :O

Why it's not in the PC version? Still, this is not giving you the possibility to buy items directly (the seller needs to accept the offer ) but hey seems like technology is here.

There are many ways to implement auction houses to satisfy the new and veteran users. However, I don't see any communication from GGG about this problem. They seem to care more about SSF players and their experience than about softcore major base players. If GGG will respect our time spend in the game, gamers will respect PoE and will spend even more time. When you have to flip 5k chaos orbs into exalts this is not a pleasant experience. GGG has to inject every tool into the game and make people immerse into the game that they have created.

I agree TFT is a cool community but people there are doing work which suppose to be done by GGG. The community is showing that there is a demand to have an auction house, and TFT proves it.

I will like to invite ggg to discussion. I really want to understand why i must waste such a huge amount of my play time on actually not playing but trading, oh irony with bots mostly...

I've added petition link in first post. If you are agree, sign and pass it on.

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Patness wrote:

I'm going to blow your mind:

POE has an auction house, it's called the Forbidden Trove on discord.

But it's essentially a gated community that serves established players. So there's a shitty auction house for some of us, and an even shittier experience for the overwhelming majority of players.

Chris Wilson says that the Auction House would reduce total playtime and therefore reduce money spent on the game, but he also said that the people who play around in the endgame spend the most money, and those are the people who use TFT.

([Removed by Support] TFT is proof that Auction Houses function to increase engagement for the people who have them).

Well I signed the petition because TFT still requires to leave and trade with people that can scam you. That's sadge but TFT is indeed better than their s*** system.

Well i just got scammed for 12 ex .. great fealing all and all.
With AH it would never happen. I have no will to to play anymore.

And yeah i never liked trading in poe now i hate it.

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Jadrann wrote:

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Patness wrote:

I'm going to blow your mind:

POE has an auction house, it's called the Forbidden Trove on discord.

But it's essentially a gated community that serves established players. So there's a shitty auction house for some of us, and an even shittier experience for the overwhelming majority of players.

Chris Wilson says that the Auction House would reduce total playtime and therefore reduce money spent on the game, but he also said that the people who play around in the endgame spend the most money, and those are the people who use TFT.

([Removed by Support] TFT is proof that Auction Houses function to increase engagement for the people who have them).

Well I signed the petition because TFT still requires to leave and trade with people that can scam you. That's sadge but TFT is indeed better than their s*** system.

Thanks for supporting the initiative. Yesterday i sold 2 black oil to guy who thanks me for that cuz he msg like 50 dm and noone answered. This is issue when u have to spend 10 min to buy something cheap like that.

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rdy4 wrote:

If you, ggg dont want to make fully functional AH give us AH for consumable items only. It wont kill bargaing but will it make game smoother and funner.

You're incorrect...

The game has two types of players, those that trade, and those who don't. Currently trade is balanced so both types can play without the game being too easy or too hard (exclude the 0.01%). Introduce more trade, even just for consumables, and you kill that balance.

PoE drops SO much loot (consumables and others) that opening up trading in any of them would completely swamp the market. Supply is far greater than demand, but the current trade system keeps most of it off the market.

Free trade would lead to some major imbalance in power between trading and non-trading players. GGG would have to increase overall game difficulty to keep the game challenging for trading players, but that would kill the game for non-trading players. Or, they could keep the game challenging for non-trading players, and kill the game with boredom for trading players.

Also... No game EVER kept players by giving them instant gratification...