So... when is GGG going to hire the poe.xyz.is guy?

New trading system is incoming. Chris has already talked about it before.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

They would also lose "street cred" for having copied rather than innovated.

Orrrr they have already lost cred for the fact that a third party had to create something to improve the trade experience SUBSTANCIALLY that GGG should have implemented from the get-go.. is more likely.

The trade system in this game is abhorrent.. the fact that they are creating a new one is great, but considering how poor the current system is, I can't say I'm necessarily "excited" about a new one coming along as I have a feeling it will be better, but still not good enough.

I guess time will tell.

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DirkAustin wrote:

I hope never, i hate poe.xyz.

Honestly, if it wasn't for xyz I don't think I'd have continued playing this game until now.. trying to find certain rare or unique items would be fucking annoying and time consuming beyond beyond..

GGG should be on their knees thanking the creator of the site for building something easy and quick to use in their ignorance toward something that they needed for their game which they totally overlooked.

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Denezen wrote:

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DirkAustin wrote:

I hope never, i hate poe.xyz.

Honestly, if it wasn't for xyz I don't think I'd have continued playing this game until now.. trying to find certain rare or unique items would be fucking annoying and time consuming beyond beyond..

GGG should be on their knees thanking the creator of the site for building something easy and quick to use in their ignorance toward something that they needed for their game which they totally overlooked.

I dont play to trade i play to kill monsters. If i wanna trade i go to the trade chat, which is not happening a lot. I usually ask the guild or global chat. I dont think everything in the world needs a price and an economy, games should be fun, if someone needs something why not give it away for free?

I am happy to give away items I'm not using to people and definitely have in the past, especially skill gems and the like.. but if say I want to find specific unique maps or a higher level roll on a specific unique, the likelihood of dropping that is zilch practically, so what is my other option?

Either I spam trade chat, which perhaps you can get lucky and find someone with what you're looking for, but you'll be looking for a while.. or, you can use the site and find 10-50 people that have it and compare b/o and rolls and everything..

great that you would rather just play the game and kill monsters, but the game is based on trade largely.. I'm not a huge fan of it, but it is what it is.

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mazul wrote:

New trading system is incoming. Chris has already talked about it before.

Here is Chris 1 year ago saying it is coming soon.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/115132/page/2

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Chris wrote:

Improved trading functionality is coming as soon as we get time. Thankfully we're making good progress getting through the urgent post-open-beta stuff so this is getting closer.

Chris has said he dosen't want trading to be easy in POE or they will nerf drop rates to compensate for easy trading. If they wanted a new trading system it would have been done long ago. We might see improved trading one day but I wouldn't count on it being anytime soon.

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Midnitecloud wrote:

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mazul wrote:

New trading system is incoming. Chris has already talked about it before.

Here is Chris 1 year ago saying it is coming soon.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/115132/page/2

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Chris wrote:

Improved trading functionality is coming as soon as we get time. Thankfully we're making good progress getting through the urgent post-open-beta stuff so this is getting closer.

Chris has said he dosen't want trading to be easy in POE or they will nerf drop rates to compensate for easy trading. If they wanted a new trading system it would have been done long ago. We might see improved trading one day but I wouldn't count on it being anytime soon.

See this to me would NOT be in GGG's best interest.

IMO, many more casual players have left already on account of desync, trade, RNG and also drop rates.

If they were to nerf drop rates further, this would do more harm to their game than anything else.. I imagine it would decrease active users even more.. and they'd only be shooting themselves in the foot.

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Denezen wrote:

See this to me would NOT be in GGG's best interest.

IMO, many more casual players have left already on account of desync, trade, RNG and also drop rates.

If they were to nerf drop rates further, this would do more harm to their game than anything else.. I imagine it would decrease active users even more.. and they'd only be shooting themselves in the foot.

I agree but in a post a month or two ago about adding an AH Chris said they would have to nerf drop rates if trading were easier. GGG doesn't want casual players in their game it seems. Only time will tell if this is a good business move or not.

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Denezen wrote:

IMO, many more casual players have left already on account of desync, trade, RNG and also drop rates.

Of course only casual players are leaving the game. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.