Why POE games economy will fail.

GGG you have tied Crafting directly to the games economy as a gold sink. While this is a good idea its also a fail one becasue no one wants to craft. People don't want to craft becasue it makes no sense to lose all of their money to craft and get nothing and lose it all.

So instead of your system acting like a gold sink it does the opposite. People will hold onto their currency to trade with instead of sinking it into nothing. More and more currency will pile up as a result of this system over inflating the price of items. Meanwhile RMTs will continue to flood your game with more currency that was not sink. Untill you have a massive disparity between the haves and the have nots and a huge inflated econonmy.

Instead of coming in here and whining without offering any advice my advice is this. And I had offered this in another thread. Improve crafting chances by created an aditional gold sink in which crafting items can be combined to give the player a better chance.

No one is embracing the armor scraps and wetstones, why becasue it gives u a worst chance and it doesn't work. Not enough of quality items drop for players to even consider taking advantage of the system and is only really viable for using them on whites. Which brings us back to point #1 no one wants to craft.

something tells me you never rolled maps by yourself

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ventiman wrote:

something tells me you never rolled maps by yourself

Lol, maps are a pretty insane currency sink, no kidding there.

Shame that means that endgame content actually costs more than most people can afford without massive trading.

Maps are not the problem becasue mostly you are rolling Magic maps. Everything you need to roll magic maps can be aquired from just simply vendoring trash that no one wants to buy and you cannot sell to anyone. Further more the Value of alts will continue to get lower as the value of chaos and other items increases. It make no financial sense to run Rare maps or even to dump chaos on them becasue as the above poster said.

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ventiman wrote:

something tells me you never rolled maps by yourself

Agree, that shit is expensive.

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ventiman wrote:

Shame that means that endgame content actually costs more than most people can afford without massive trading.

You dont have to trade at all. You just have to play a lot. People who think they can get rich by playing 3 hours a day are tards, total tards. You say, you need to trade alot. The "need" is wrong, since you dont! I made about 15 exalts in a week of docks farming. (Another 25 by trading, but still 15 without any trading.)


And the TO seems like he got no clue of POE, many people craft etc. You either never got to a point where you can craft or you're just too poor to do it. The people who want to craft, either got the currency or just craft without worrying about losing currency.

If you think people will hold onto currency forever, you're just stupid.

Fuck rolling maps, I just transmute+run them all the way up to 73-74, only then do I even think about alch or chiselling anything.

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dandan88 wrote:

Fuck rolling maps, I just transmute+run them all the way up to 73-74, only then do I even think about alch or chiselling anything.

Quoted for truth. You will waste more trying to craft any rare map to make it good than you will get in return. And chances of you getting a better return on a magic map are just as good given the nature of RNG. People like the above and myself have figured this out.

Nothing more disappointing than chisel+alch a map, then have to chaos (or scour/alch) because the mods really sucked, then finally running the map with really good mods, and getting no map drops at all!