Trade website is unusable - bots and price fixers - GGG needs to act!

No offense, I know exactly what friction means. But I think it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in this context.
You can introduce friction in a lot of other ways that would be a LOT better for the players.

I don't need automated trading, never said I do. It was just one of the examples fo an improvement.

But I DO want a way to get price fixers, people who don't answer and bots banned from trading.

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Cosmic711#3173 wrote:

Friction means a way to make something more difficult so that it cannot be easily abused.

And yet, one needs to merely glance at trade to see the multitude of bots existing there, with GGG doing nothing about it.. not that they really could, once the game goes fully free to play but not even trying while the game is effectively pay to play right now..

But i guess it's easier to ignore the issue and besides, ban some bots and one of their tippy top percenters might get upset and stop buying packs and that just cannot be allowed to happen.

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MeisterIgel#5358 wrote:

i.e. when they have the item up for sale and don't sell it hwne they got whispered a certain amount of times, they get a trade ban with a stacking time, like 2h 8h 16h 24h 7d etc.

So I or any random griefer could send you into ban any time by spamming whispers to you?:) Or imagine missclicking 10 div item as 10 ex - you get literally 200+ whispers from live searches (personal experience kapp) - either allow yourself to be ripped off or automatic ban, gg.

Trade system is certainly terrible, but doubling down on current way is not the solution. Either GGG spends a lot of time and resources making full-scale AH where both buyers and seller can react after listing if needed (so not just marketplace for bots), or leaves it as it is. Guess what would be more likely.