My problem with poe.xyz and why do I think it fucked the economy
"You're trying to have your cake and eat it, too. First you say you don't want a stock market, then you say you like the leading stock market site because it makes trading shares so convenient. Trading should be more difficult. There are two ways to increase difficulty: erecting arbitrary barriers no one can do anything about (the Bad Way) and by creating challenges which can be defeated through skill (the Good Way). In terms of general difficulty in PoE, desync is an example of the Bad Way, while the Nemesis mods (in general) are an example of the Good Way (or at least an attempt at it). In trading, the key skill is item evaluation, that is, knowing how much an item is worth. Therefore, the correct components of the game to attack are the components which make item evaluation easy; afterwards, item evaluation should be more difficult. Let me make something clear: increasing the skill check on profitable trading would make it so the bottom half of players, in terms of item evaluation skill, would routinely trade at a significant loss, while those with more skill would profit off of their mistakes. This is as it should be; the concept of "trading for everyone" is a broken concept. It's better for item flipping to be a specialty — practiced by the few who enjoy it for its own sake — than to have everyone partaking in it. Out of these components, a lot of it is item affix balance: it's too easy to just look at a rare (or unique) and tell whether it's good or not relative to a similar item. But poe.xys is also a culprit, and should be stopped. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB#2697 on Feb 9, 2014, 8:07:00 AM
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" Your argument is invalid :) Crafting doesn't exist in POE. Gambling does...and the house always wins. Velocireptile - I LOL'ed. Which made me fart. I wish the office were empty right now :( Hardlicker - I had to push the dog out of the way so I could get to the sexy quilt. Last edited by ToxicRatt#5950 on Feb 9, 2014, 8:37:02 AM
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XYZ is the only thing that makes sense in this trading game.
Apart from facilitating trade and the obvious benefit of player retention this brings, XYZ does a wonderfull job at stabilizing item prices. Sellers cannot severely overprice their items, because of XYZ buyout listings. This helps fighting cartel mentality. It helps noobs not being scammed by profiteers. Trade transparency XYZ brings is good for legit traders and only bad for scammers & other shady people that want to rip you off. It's a global economy and item value is defined by droprate (=availability) and other global factors (like build efficiency or popularity). Therefore it makes sense to have a global overview on the market, through the service XYZ provides. When night falls
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have you guys every considered that the demand for many items are almost perfectly inelastic to changes in price?
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/perfectly-inelastic-demand.html IGN: Barbara_Jay
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"the only way a "noob" would have that amount of currency to buy items that high priced is from using RMT currency, and thats where all the problems are, not POE.XYZ. |
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Despite what insane people might say, if trading is easier, prices GO DOWN. How is this even a thing? Trading is easier, more people trade, more product, more competition, etc, etc...prices normalize, etc. Just look at D3 for proof. Had the easiest trading ever, and eventually prices were so low that you could triple your dps upon hitting level 60 immediately for under 100k gold.
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" What D3 were you playing? Even shitty legendaries were way overpriced. |
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" Irrelevant, because his point is valid. Transparency + ease of use = competition ==> low & stable prices Obfuscated trading + difficulty to use = monopoly & cartel manipulation ==> high prices When night falls
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i would rather spend 2 minutes on Poexyz rather than 2 hours to NEVER searching forum threads and not getting what i need.... enough said. and its not manipulation. newbs dont know about poe.xyz......
Why ask Why and start by denying before you have actually tried?
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