Economy and wipe

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Biovital#3172 wrote:

If you are treating it like a full release than sure it would matter. For me however this is a beta, nothing here matters.

Using the same mentality why would it matter after the game release? It's pixels.

But if we're speaking about reality, RMT websites are already firing on all cylinders for EA. If you don't care about EA, that on you.

Even if EA last a year I fully expect when new weapon types and classes get introduced it will be via a new EA league as a testing ground then no one will even play standard since we will probably just be going from league to league with major updates.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

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Biovital#3172 wrote:

They said that EA characters and loot will only be able to interact with EA characters once the game goes live, until than just go SSF and enjoy the game.

You know that EA will probably last a year, right?

yes EA lasts a year but when they release new classes in say march/april they'll do so along side a fresh realm with new content just like with leagues and no one will be playing in the older realm, just like with standard one poe1. Yeah the chars will still be there but the place will be a ghost town as anyone playing will be starting out fresh.

i believe jonathan said ideally there will be multiple 'leagues' during EA where they will kick off fresh server and economy. i believe he said they wont close the previous ones but they will encourage us to try the new fresh economy.


i wouldnt worry about the economy tho, i dont think its broken, poe economies are very robust.

EA or not how much the game sucks matters. Doubt they will improve it much in 1 or even 3 years. Very d4 like.

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Biovital#3172 wrote:

If you are treating it like a full release than sure it would matter. For me however this is a beta, nothing here matters.

a beta is for mass testing. Making the beta inaccessible 90% of players because .1% abused and manipulated the economy would be a detriment to the data sample.

Whether theres a wipe or not i dont mind, just wanted to explain why this actually does matter in EA/beta.

Honestly playing mostly self found is alot more fun then just buying stuff, at least it has been for me.

You can still get REALLY strong equipment building it yourself, and when you do get lucky and create that perfect item, it just feels so good.

As far as uniques, yeah, there are some that are very useful and it's very unlikely you will get them yourself. You could save up for them over time though, and make that the exception for trading.

I don't really know how bad the economy is since I don't trade, but I have a character of every ascension and I have very good equipment for them (across all player levels).

I'm currently waiting for a fix on the crashing issues to play anymore sadly, but I was still having a blast playing and slowly making all my characters stronger. I'm sure it's more frustrating if you are only playing 1 character and using 1 type of weapon or something like that, but if ANY good drop is useful to you for someone, you get something good fairly often.

what makes you think first league economy will be any better than EA economy?
you will have the exact same botters and same RMT in league 01 aswell.

only solution is to play SSF, which is the better game anyways.

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Honestly playing mostly self found is alot more fun then just buying stuff, at least it has been for me.
You can still get REALLY strong equipment building it yourself, and when you do get lucky and create that perfect item, it just feels so good.

Yes, progression and getting upgrades feels so much better in SSF.

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Krematorial#3777 wrote:

what makes you think first league economy will be any better than EA economy?
you will have the exact same botters and same RMT in league 01 aswell.

only solution is to play SSF, which is the better game anyways.

SSF can be fun but you end up in the same situation as trade but instead of upgrades being incredibly expensive they are incredibly unlikely.

My chest peice has no life, but it has 1800 armor, good res and life regen. The chances of me finding something similar with life is pretty much impossible. This is starting to be the case for every slot.

SSF is more challenging for sure, but its not some fantasy land where everything is better.

If we had poe1 crafting it would be great, but all we have is gambling. New players will have a significantly worse time in ssf here.