GGG vs. Trading made easy

A full AH would mean GGG would have to radically ramp up the game's difficulty which would absolutely gimp players who are not trading excessively and would ruin SSF which is now a thing.

The game balanced around on a certain level of expected trading between players. The difficult of trading is part of that balancing equation.
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Nephalim wrote:
A full AH would mean GGG would have to radically ramp up the game's difficulty which would absolutely gimp players who are not trading excessively and would ruin SSF which is now a thing.

The game balanced around on a certain level of expected trading between players. The difficult of trading is part of that balancing equation.

And whats the downside of Currency Auction House?
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BobHunter1 wrote:
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Nephalim wrote:
A full AH would mean GGG would have to radically ramp up the game's difficulty which would absolutely gimp players who are not trading excessively and would ruin SSF which is now a thing.

The game balanced around on a certain level of expected trading between players. The difficult of trading is part of that balancing equation.

And whats the downside of Currency Auction House?


None. If you read 4 replies earlier I am in favor of a currency, consumable and map AH.
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Since I play in standard, a HUGE QoL help would be for there to exist a way to filter out log in status by LEAGUE when searching on poe.trade.


Right now, if you try to trade on standard, 95% of stuff listed is not really available, because the peeps are logged in on a league, and wont switch to trade in standard, so I have to spam 20+ peeps to find one that is actually playing in standard.

Right now you can filter by "logged in", if it could be changed to "logged in STANDARD" that would be huge QoL.
AH only for some kinds of items (currency, maps and so on) is a 'half-measures' I mentioned I don't want to see.

The game should not be balanced around SSF, because SSF is an additional challenge, not a baseline.

All I want just to play the game and kill bosses without wasting my time on trading. If I will buy everyting I need on poe.trade, why couldn't I buy the same simply in AH? I see only benefits. It just saves everyone's time and makes the game more enjoyable and attractive for casual players who don't want to learn million trade tools in the game with very steep learning curve already.

And SSF has its own ladder anyway.
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Popieluch wrote:
It is hard for me to imagine who would be happy about the lack of AH. Probably just a scammer's only.


Yeah, well, empathy isn't for everyone.
Sometimes, just sometimes, you should really consider adapting to the world, instead of demanding that the world adapts to you.
Since on the Forums, people can have their characters' equipment (and maybe stash, I don't remember) visible, trading would be so easy if a the one that POSTED on the Forums would have a pop-up that was linked (again, the Forums updates when an item has been removed, it shouldn't be too hard), that way trading could happen passively and not leave a map or whatever for example.

Just have the boneheads that say 'offer?' actually have a price listed, and if the buyer meets the standard, the pop-up comes to the Seller for a last chance to change their minds even...
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Phrazz wrote:
They (GGG) have dug themselves a big, black whole that it's pretty hard to get out of. With their left hand, they wave "we do not want trade to be too easy, because that would make trading even more mandatory than it is - and increase the gap between trading and non-trading players". With their right hand, they wave "let's make the API accessible to everyone, so that ALL items are able to be indexed by third party sites", which is pretty contradictory to what the left hand waves.

Now, they can't even BEGIN to change this, without a prison riot starting. If they were to make trade "harder", these item-flipping, trade-simulator players that can't put into enough grinding effort to do things themselves, would cry. Now they cry about the game being "too easy", but if they made trade "harder", they would cry about that.

And no, let's not forget about the "ethical", self-handicapped group, that would raise havoc if they made trade even easier. "I want to find every item myself, which is impossible now that they made trade even easier, having to balance the drops thereafter".

The big, black whole is real. There's NOTHING they can do, without making HUGE parts of the community unhappy. And that's the main reason nothing has happened.


This is pretty accurate. The reality is, no matter what GGG does, there will always be a group of players that will cry about it. However, it's usually just a vocal minority. The forums do not represent the player base as a whole.
Last edited by Reizoko#4460 on Apr 1, 2017, 10:33:18 PM
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Nursamedicus wrote:
I'm a casual player.
Then GO play "Diablo 3 : Return of The Unicorns" wtf are you doing in POE ?

How about we take advice about gaming from hardcore players for a change? Let the snowflakes be snoflakes
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Last edited by Ecofatalis#6179 on Apr 1, 2017, 10:40:53 PM
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Ecofatalis wrote:
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Nursamedicus wrote:
I'm a casual player.
Then GO play "Diablo 3 : Return of The Unicorns" wtf are you doing in POE ?

How about we take advice about gaming from hardcore players for a change? Let the snowflakes be snoflakes


Don't even kid yourself. PoE is not hardcore anymore. Most rough bullshit has been moved off and now most people can go clear T16 Maps in semi decent builds with semi decent gears. Challenges continue to be the last, very uber end content. All the other content is doable for casuals now.

Trying to push casuals with your "hardcore only im so spucial" shit isn't helping the game, or the community, or anyone relevant, only the sad little ego of the forum trolls.
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