Trade chat in POE is beyond pathetic... Worst trade chat in any game ive ever seen

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Koreapsu wrote:

Someone doesn't understand a barter economy.

Someone doesn't understand what that word means.

Barter isn't negotiation. It's got absolutely nothing to do with that.

Trading for a set price can be barter, if and only if both offers are for private use by both people involved.

Trading for a negotiated price with at least one of the offers saved up for future trades is not barter.

PoE does not have a barter economy. It has currency. It has items which aren't traded for personal use but for use in future trades.

PoE does have a low transparency economy. Prices, availability, buyers and sellers are relatively unknown and require effort to find.

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Gobla wrote:

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Koreapsu wrote:

Someone doesn't understand a barter economy.

Someone doesn't understand what that word means.

Barter isn't negotiation. It's got absolutely nothing to do with that.

Trading for a set price can be barter, if and only if both offers are for private use by both people involved.

Trading for a negotiated price with at least one of the offers saved up for future trades is not barter.

PoE does not have a barter economy. It has currency. It has items which aren't traded for personal use but for use in future trades.

PoE does have a low transparency economy. Prices, availability, buyers and sellers are relatively unknown and require effort to find.

Thank you. I got tired of saying this.

We all know (or should know) that the trade chat channels are crap. We also know that Chris is not happy with the way the trade channels don't work and has stated earlier this year his desire to have some kind of formal browser based trade system for trading PoE items. Now that the guild system is operational maybe GGG is working on the trading problem. We haven't had any news on that front for months now so how far down on their to do list the trading system is is an unknown at this time. If would be nice if GGG would provide a quarterly update on their priority list and where things are at in their programming of PoE features. That would be a big help to keep us informed more on the near future of PoE.

I hate trading in this game, so I avoid it :)

I agree with the wall of text in trade chat, same people spamming same items. I tried to ignore the people spamming for a while, but there was always more :S

So now, I just avoid it and enjoy playing ;)