PoE veterans don't realize how unintuitive and tedious the trade system feels to new players

I have 2 friends in my guild who are playing PoE for the first time.

I had to screen share and show them how to use the trade website.
They were so overwhelmed by the idea of having to go to a website in their browser (both of them play PoE2 on steam and didn't even have PoE website accounts).

On top of that, 75% of the people don't respond to trade messages.

On top of that, there are price fixers and scammers & those always show up first on results.

It's kind of sad the crafting is so bad compared to the power of trading. They wasted so many exalts trying to get some decent gear but you can buy for 1-2 ex what you can spend 50ex crafting and still not hit.

I'm not even talking about any advanced mods, just basic life and resists.
These players are hitting a hard wall after campaign since they don't have enough resistances and the 1 portal system is so punishing.

They have little to no hope of fixing their resists without trade.

Please have an in-game trade system (not an auction house) that doesn't need you to go to a web browser and create an account.

There are no general chat channels for trade like battle.net or anything else to trade other than the website. Things like this make the game impossible to recommend.

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stalkingjackal#2441 wrote:

Please have an in-game trade system (not an auction house) that doesn't need you to go to a web browser and create an account.

The fact that they didn't bother to even move the trade system into the damn game for PoE 2 is kind of sad, really. I'm absolutely not in favor of an AH, but to have the item search/index in the game should probably be a minimum when they are (in some degree) both balancing for and targeting consoles for PoE 2.

you guys on pc are lucky you can trade. ggg borked a ton of console accounts and now we only appear offline on the trade site so no trading for us. and not one word from ggg.

It's insane we don't have a trading post in this game, this isn't 2010 anymore folks.

Ive been asking for an auction house since 2012. We finally got a currency one, maybe in another 10 years.

I freaking hate whisper trading.

So POE 1 veterans are told to go play POE 1 if we complain about the tedium of the campaign and the combat. I guess the answer to this point therefore is go play Last Epoch?

Out of all the "Friction" GGG likes to keep, I lowkey understand why trade needs it. In a way, the difficulty and pain involved in trading kind of balance it, and the fact that you can only buy items from a player directly limits the supply of items in the game. Currencies were far, far too painful however, to little or no gain as all X orbs are one and the same.

It really sucks having to depend on a website to trade. When it's down for maintenance or just not loading for whatever reason you simply can't trade. I don't like it.

doesn't help that half of the crafting systems from PoE1 are missing or been heavily nerfed like essences.

The disparity between the gear you can make yourself and that you can trade for is too high. Esp. true for players who don't know about prefixes/suffixes, affix tiers, meta crafting, etc etc.