This game needs desperately a marketplace

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roundishcap wrote:

My goto armchair dev solution is that whenever a player doesn't sell an item it gets unlisted from trade so others don't keep whispering that player to get disappointed.

One perso Online but afk or flooded with requests can literally ruin trade for a lot of others.

The real answer is an auctuon house.

What happens if you whisp someone and don't buy? Remove your divines?


You people don't understand one simple fact of the auction house, it's tilted for the richest players on server.
You wouldn't be able to buy sh*t.

No Effing Marketplace!!!

Auction houses go to shit faster than a plate of hot wings and 3 pints and feel even worse.

Path of Exile also desperately needs a mobile phone version of the website. So ridiculous all the pinching & expanding you have to do just to read anything on it. A lot of GGG's work would have been a better fit 24 years ago than it is today.

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madmikey2023 wrote:

Path of Exile also desperately needs a mobile phone version of the website. So ridiculous all the pinching & expanding you have to do just to read anything on it. A lot of GGG's work would have been a better fit 24 years ago than it is today.

Dude, they already started working on the new forum a while ago. You can already view parts of it with some PoE2 stuff. It was a news item recently

They needed one 10 years ago at this point. The whole experience takes so much away from the game. You're sitting there for 3-4 hours buying things you need for running your maps and then in the middle of running your maps, you have to leave your map just to make a trade.

People don't respond to trades, price fixers, massive market manipulation. People are not going to leave their map for you to sell something they have listed at a low price so it's a coin toss whether someone will even respond to you. You're sitting there messaging 10-20 people, sometimes more, for a single item, and it's not even gear, it's either a scarab, a map or some other currency. Make currency trading easier at least. SOMETHING.

On top of this, you have to have your game in windowed mode and have half of your screen with the trade window and the other half with the game. People actually asked Jonathan during podcasts, can we have the trade in the game please? And their solution is telling people to get a second monitor, yet 32:9 is removed from the game, so you have even less room to fit your game while having to fit a second monitor on your desk as a solution to having to use the trade that we are stuck with on this game. Even worse, the people who play full-screen just alt-tab. Imagine, every 20-30 minutes of playing a game, you have to press alt-tab to either sell or buy something to continue playing the actual game. This isn't playing the game anymore, it's just searching trade queries at that point and it completely ruins the immersion.

Also, you have content sometimes that you CAN'T leave. Imagine you're doing the final waves of a Simulacrum or the final waves of an uber lab and someone messages you for their item. Sure, you can tell the buyer "in lab, in simulacrum." But do you think they will wait for you? Of course not, they will buy from someone else.

Then there's the aspect of having to go into someone's hideout to trade when they are in a completely different server than yours, causing massive ping spikes and sometimes crashes and dc's. You play in Washington D.C. and join someone from Singapore for a trade, it's likely you will dc or one of you will crash to desktop.

Anything at this point would be better than what is in the game currently. Even cross-instance trading would help.

You could even do a system where you can trade a person without having to go into their hideout as long as they are online, one less step than what you have to do now.

I think the main reason they don't want to do anything auction house related is because their network, coding & database is archaic so they would have to basically re-do their entire infrastructure for it to work even though it is singlehandedly the most important & biggest issue there is in the game currently.

An auction house, for at least currency only, is an obvious solution but they conditioned their playerbase into thinking this would be bad for the game, when in reality, you can make the drop chance of most things lower, which would counteract having an auction house or even having a gold fee like they mentioned with instant buyout trading, which will still not be a full solution but it's better than nothing I guess. Then again you will have to wait another 3-4 years before it comes to PoE 2 and then eventually to PoE 1 so enjoy the current trading experience I guess.

Wow this one is interesting.
Well if you can identify problem. Is really easy to came up with solution.
So auction would be really great for game.