SUGGESTION>>Trading while AFK or busy mapping, TOTA, or whatever.

Sometimes, finding someone who is selling what you need, at the price you want, AND responding is difficult. I understand GGG doesn't want an auction house style trade and I dig that. I am proposing a paid-option for AFK trading, where I can somehow get access to your hideout only for buying the item from your stash for the requested amount. Perhaps it can operate like a store, showing me all the things you have for sale for the extra-add-on-sale I wasn't planning on.

This also would benefit sellers that are maximizing their currency/hour without having to stop and wait for a trade.

I mentioned a 'paid' option for this for incentive for GGG to do something about the out dated and too-reliant-on-people-being-at-their-PCs system.

This shouldn't be a paid feature. It should be accessible to all.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

This shouldn't be a paid feature. It should be accessible to all.

This, gating it behind a paywall would hurt the game.

Also won't happen, it's not about not wanting an auction house, they want you to take an active part in trading...to interact with people good or bad, because at the end of the day they don't want to make it easier than it already is (and it is piss easy).

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they don't want to make it easier than it already is (and it is piss easy)

Who said easy or hard.

It is said wasting or not wasting time.

If one have 1 hr to play the game, what one will prefer: play the game and enjoy in game activities or spamming /whisper /whisper /ty /ty?

Obvious answer.

That's why we have dungeon finders in modern massive online games instead of former spamming lfm lfg.

Cause it's stupid spam chat. Chat is for chat.

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BambulaGTS wrote:

Who said easy or hard.

It is said wasting or not wasting time.

They want trade to waste time. Read their trade manifesto. It's the only solution they could come up with to "balance" trade according to their vision of balance.

TBH trade and the "hardcore experience" vision they have kind of contradict each other, which is why we have the current state of things w.r.t. rarity of drops and wasting-of-time of trade. It is also beneficial for them because it encourages you to be online for longer, which in turn increases the likelihood of you buying MTX. Predatory? Yes, not in the worst way, but still predatory. You know that saying, if it's free, then you are the product? Free2Play in a nutshell.

Ties in nicely with the reasons why we have 300+ different types of currency (that isn't an exaggeration btw).

I still think this system can still be used, even if they don't want you to trade while offline. I'm more interested in not stopping what i'm doing because you want a 10c trade. I also like money, so I do tend to stop and I end up fighting myself.

Also, for the reason of the no-response using poe-trade because most AFKers or folks farming don't respond and you end up paying more for stuff because of their lack of response.

This doesn't have to replace the current system. Just an augment - is why I mentioned a paid feature.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

This shouldn't be a paid feature. It should be accessible to all.

+1

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bobmiller123 wrote:

I mentioned a 'paid' option for this for incentive for GGG to do something about the out dated and too-reliant-on-people-being-at-their-PCs system.

Be that as it may. Making the game (more) pay to win is a terrible idea. Atm it's a pretty level playing field. An idea like this would not.

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It is also beneficial for them because it encourages you to be online for longer, which in turn increases the likelihood of you buying MTX

LOL?

I bet a grand it is solely your invention.

Can't see even premise for such human behaviour.

Hur dur I'm here hugging my stash > ... hrs already, gonna buy MTX? Really ...