This game desperately needs an auction house

I'm sorry but by far the most annoying part of playing PoE for me personally (and this could be an unpopular opinion idk) is dealing with trade site on SC. 5% of the time you can simply whisper, get invite, go to hideout, trade and leave. And even that is a bit of a process when you think about it. Sometimes you crash loading into hideouts etc. 95% of the time, you whisper, no response. Or they invite then cancel it or they tell you they want more than they listed it for or they just ignore you and relist it anyways. This is all just buyer side obviously. But even as the seller, constant low ball offers, haggling, overwhelmed with whispers or invites if you did happen to list for too low unintentionally.

Would an auction house not alleviate some if not all of these issues? You can access from your hideout, simple. Or even a special place in endgame map if that's what people want for the sake of actually seeing other players. You could actually list your items for BIDDING which is seemingly what 90% of the people selling items in PoE want anyways since they constantly relist it for higher if they get 2 whispers for one item. And for those that want quick sales/purchase they can use a buyout function.

Is anyone as tired as I am having to spend literally hours trying to buy a single item because people don't respond off trade site? It's just not a very intuitive system. People don't want to leave in the middle of their maps, and sometimes they literally cannot leave their map if it's something like lab or this case a very long trial. And look how successful the currency exchange has been? Clearly it's a system that works. I feel like auction house for items would be a great benefit to players in regard to time if nothing else. Why wouldn't we want this?

i agree ..and make it even more simple they can just do exactly same as it is but instead sending items from private stash tabs to website it would send it to ingame market. what can be easier?

I vote for the other option.

Fix loot and remove the 'economy' so that you can play and beat the entirety of the game, off the loot that drops for you while playing.

Auction house just futhers the 'economy' which is ruining many aspects of the game for many players.

One problem with an auction house is botting. The the devs have spoken about in interviews. People will make bots that can buy up every copy of a certain item and relist it for a higher price. This makes price fixing much easier than it is now. People could also corner the market on certain items with a bot. It is much much harder to do this when you have to interact with 10 - 20 people for real trades.

There might be a middle ground where people can list certain low to medium value items in an auction house with a buyout, but high value items are in person trade only.

There might be some other solutions that could mitigate the problem (maybe limit number of trades to 1 / minute or something?). Not totally sure that will solve the problem though.

"

Vizerai#7726 wrote:

One problem with an auction house is botting. The the devs have spoken about in interviews. People will make bots that can buy up every copy of a certain item and relist it for a higher price. This makes price fixing much easier than it is now. People could also corner the market on certain items with a bot. It is much much harder to do this when you have to interact with 10 - 20 people for real trades.

There might be a middle ground where people can list certain low to medium value items in an auction house with a buyout, but high value items are in person trade only.

There might be some other solutions that could mitigate the problem (maybe limit number of trades to 1 / minute or something?). Not totally sure that will solve the problem though.

i dont think bots will be problem if there will be ingame market every person will see at instant what price item is and they would be stupid to place item there for 1 exalt for exapmple if he see the same item for lowest rpice for example 50 exalt he will probably put it there for 49.

Game can even show 3 lowest price items so he can see and he can click on some button to see more of them in list. ...so if some BOT will buy all items he will only fk himself.

they can even incorporate in game that seller will see current currency ratio in same tab.

it need same options for Prefix sufix checks as on website in game of course. would be nice to just put item there and press button on some prefixes suffixes to find same items on market so it can show those prices above/under.