Auction House Petition

Just lost another 550 dps weapon which would have been a huge upgrade for me just because the seller lives in another time zone and sells first chance he gets in the middle of the night. This shit has been going on for months now! "But... but... standard is soooo easy to upgrade, right guuys?" FUCK THIS GAME!!

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Abloonie wrote:

Honestly I think an interface that allowed players to browse other players shops and pay buyout prices would be a better solution than an auction house. I have played many games with auction houses and people use them as buyout shops so the whole auction house thing never works as intended anyway. A proper interface for people to link their shops in game would be better. Then you contact that person and make the trade.

This :)

i like the idea of an auction house or something, because there are alot of people out there that dont like to spam trade chats and the shop doesnt really work, because half the time you are just looking for someone online and it never works. and as trading is a massive part of this game, it needs to evolve as the game does. thats my opinion. NOW SLAM ME

I d like to raise a few more points concerning trading in PoE :

- Trading is a good way to interact with other players : ths argument makes me sad and it is frequently used, even by GGG to explain the lack of BO. The way I play this game is not universal, I understand, but i see public parties and parties with friends as the way to interact with other players. Even global chat is funnier than trading. The fact GGG WANTS you to have a direct contact with someone when you need to trade chaos for chisels seems pointless to me. The time i spend finding someone who will sell what i want is time lost i could have spent mapping with friends.

- Presently, you will not show as online on xyz if you are not in the ladder. That is to say, only the top 15 000 characters of each leage are considered online for the indexer. This create a warp in the economy where the top player concentrate even more wealth. XYZ was fine for a time but we need (and really fast) the revamped system.

- I ll repeat what i said a few posts back : D3 killed AH and not the other way around. AH work fine in a lot of games and i believe it would work very well in PoE too. But I would gladly have the new system GGG is preparing as long as it has a BO option. Whenever i try to remember my worsts experiences in PoE trading is always involved... or to be precise the lack of trading because even when you stalk someone for a week you can still fail to meet online. Now I don t play that much but it s even more frustrating when you have 10h a week to play PoE and you spend most of that time looking for the item you need.

- A fast and easy trading is even more important in PoE where you always trade some currency for onther one. I for one would love a currency only AH. It would only makes crafting easier and whatever your stance on AH is, there is no way this could kill the game :)

- With that said, I m not convinced PoE needs an non-currency AH. It just drives me mad when i see the typical "No Way ! It will kill the game" answer. I think it would be great in PoE but there are alternatives such as what GGG is preparing that can be very interesting too. We just need to know more about it !

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mannihello wrote:

i played D3 before the ah was removed.
and I spended more time with the auction house than playing the game. because flipping was the fastest way, to get enough money for decent gear. and i felt bad - i did not like it. some even did it with bid bots.

Well now is that different than now? People still flip and get rich. Just gives casual sellers a better medium.

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riddie wrote:

Just lost another 550 dps weapon which would have been a huge upgrade for me just because the seller lives in another time zone and sells first chance he gets in the middle of the night. This shit has been going on for months now! "But... but... standard is soooo easy to upgrade, right guuys?" FUCK THIS GAME!!

because they say everyone in Standard are rich or easily get rich lol

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ziggro wrote:

No, it doesnt need an auction house, stop being lazy and learn to trade.

yea, you tell em. spam those chats son!

The cool thing about auction houses is that I would be able to take a cheap item worth a few chaos that is widely used and buy up every single one on the entire market easily and raise the price artificially. It would be pretty cool because it would make it easy for players with large amounts of currency to manipulate market prices of useful unique items due to them all being in one easy location like an auction house.

They need to monetize it. Charge 1 GGGold for a purchase.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

They need to monetize it. Charge 1 GGGold for a purchase.

This game really does need Real Money Trading.

What makes a good ARPG? Spending hours in trading looking for someone to trade you gear.

What makes a better ARPG? Spending minutes in trading looking for someone to trade you gear.

Just don't expect to find anything yourself, that is absurd.