WHY DON'T YOU LIKE TO TRADE?

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Warmey wrote:

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Antnee wrote:

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If you watch trade while you play (which you should, not like you need full attention killing monkeys in act 2 or w/e) after maybe 2 hours in game you will know most exchange rates, and what a lot of items are worth.

This is about the most unappealing solution I can think of. Having a chat scroll on as I am playing a game is profoundly annoying.

The BETTER solution (see my post above) is for people to just put a price on things they are selling. Like... you know... normal people. I should not need a bachelors in economics to know what to 'offer' someone for a friggin pair of boots.

no, no he's right, thats what I do also. Playing while checking the chat scroll.

I didn't disagree, I am sure this will make you a trading expert in no time at all.

The problem is, I don't want to be a trading expert. I just want to buy an item here or there, once maybe every other month. I also don't want to waste my hard-earned exalts by being ripped off by a "trader". Both things are unappealing.

Again I say, if you are selling something, it's on YOU to put the price tag down, and haggling can occur from there.

Too much work too little reward.

Would rather kill.

The people that don't like to trade often tend to be the same people that prefer to play solo.

They're most likely anti-social. I pray for their social skills.

i hate having to deal with dealing with buying and selling shit

that said



as much as i hate dealing with ppl i still managed to do fine

Because some people hold on to why they have always played progression, loot-find, aRPG games.

Which was killing monsters with crazy builds and progressing their characters, their account, slowly but surely.



Contrary to what aRPG developers took from the D2jsp bastardisation; Not everybody wants the best loot possible, as soon as possible. Why the fuck would I, in a progression, loot-find game? It is completely at odds with the purpose of the genre.

Because its boring, and even worse I have to actually talk you people ingame. I dont want to do that shit, I just want to fucking kill stuff.

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Antnee wrote:

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It's amazing how pawn shops are still around...I mean if you don't have the knowledge to make a reasonable offer who's fault do you think it is?

I don't know how pawn shops work where you live, but here I have never walked into a pawn shop that didn't have a friggin price on every item in the store. THAT is how a store should operate.

You don't walk into a restaurant, order your food, and not know what the price is. This analogy is flawed.

I have never walked into a pawn shop, Period. Walking into a pawn shop is how you get swindled before you even make a purchase.

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I have never walked into a pawn shop, Period. Walking into a pawn shop is how you get swindled before you even make a purchase.

There are two things wrong with this statement.

One is the assumption that you will be instantly swindled upon entering a pawn shop-- this is not true. There are certain things that you are most definitely better off buying at a pawn shop rather than buying new.

Second is the fact that you made this assumption without any prior pawn shop experience.

Setting this aside, the point is that when you walk into one, they have prices on all the items. You don't bring a chainsaw up to the counter without knowing what the store wants for it... you CAN talk them down, but the initial price point is set by THEM.

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Pfinch wrote:

Hey,

Can someone explain to me why you don't like to trade? I really don't understand what the big deal is. Every arpg that is online has trading. It would seem everyone would be used to it by now. Also why do you want a self found league? I don't understand that either. Is it because you want increased drops? I would highly doubt they make a self found league and if they did I really doubt they completely redo drop rates of items and currency. Someone please explain...thanks!!

I like killing monsters, not haggling with people. This is why I dislike trading. I am not opposed to trading, you could trade in D2. However, I never felt as if I was 'forced' to trade in D2 but I do feel that way in PoE. Considering PoE is marketed as a single player game (that happens to be online) I find the 'forced' trading to be vexing.

I would like a self found league because in such a league there wouldn't be trading.

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Pfinch wrote:

Hey,

Can someone explain to me why you don't like to trade? I really don't understand what the big deal is. Every arpg that is online has trading. It would seem everyone would be used to it by now. Also why do you want a self found league? I don't understand that either. Is it because you want increased drops? I would highly doubt they make a self found league and if they did I really doubt they completely redo drop rates of items and currency. Someone please explain...thanks!!

Well, to answer the first question, it's because people are generally assholes; offering silly prices for things, wasting my time (and theirs) by not actually telling me what they want, and without a shred of common courtesy the entire time. Oh, and let's not forget what a legendary pain in the ass it is to find an item you'd actually be interested with the current system. That's a pretty significant part of it too, but it's mostly mitigated by the presence of indexers.

To answer the second question, I don't want a self found league - because despite how truly disgusting trading is now, it'd be much worse to try to get something that enables a build you enjoy without having the option to trade for it.