First Wave of Trade Improvements

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MEL0N_L0RD wrote:

As someone who has been playing almost 6 months and hasn't yet dropped any cash (I will eventually), I have no problem with the fact they are using premium stash tabs as a basis for using Public Stash Tabs.

I've been using Acquisition for a few months and it's simple as heck and awesome. Using Session ID means even if the author wanted to they can't steal anything from me. If I had to use my POE login/password to use Acquisition I wouldn't use it and then I'd see why many are crying P2W, but since it doesn't you can't claim P2W.

Right now you can either use real money to get a premium stash tab, or use a no risk program that does the same thing. GGG is making it clear both options are good, will accomplish the same thing, so please don't say this is making things P2W. Saying so just makes you look like silly since there are SOOOOO many other games that are blatant P2W it makes no sense putting a game as great as POE in the same league as those games by throwing out P2W when it doesn't apply.

Also, muling in the game is ridiculously simple and generous on the part of GGG (I'm using a few on my wife's computer which will be abandoned when I get premium tabs eventually). Seriously, this game couldn't be further from P2W.

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Skyfallkitten wrote:

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mindfreakk wrote:

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cipher_nemo wrote:

quote by Sure_K4y

I believe everybody would be perfectly fine with it staying exclusive to premium tabs under one circumstance, and that circumstance would be to give players a way to earn at least one or two premium tabs as some sort of league challenge reward, for example. That way, bots are pretty much excluded, it would become widely available, as well as being a free feature.

That's a good idea. And it reminds me of LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online), which was at the time driven by Turbine before they were bought up. They took an MMORPG and went from subscription to F2P, however their micro-transaction store was not just cosmetic items, it also contained content. The content was behind a pay-gate. That sounds horrible, but the beauty of all of this was that you could earn its MT currency by playing the game and completing things. So you can play your way to more content and never have to spend a dime, even if it took you longer to get there.

So if GGG decided to hand out Premium Tabs or Premium Tab Upgrades as some sort of reward, I'd be all for that. Because I truly enjoyed Turbine's MT model with LOTRO, in which their other title DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online) was already using.

When I heard the trade improvements news and them being exclusive to Premium Stash tabs, that's what I thought. I hoped that the Perandus challenge league would award a premium stash tab, if that was the case I doubt anyone would complain.

That is a wonderful Idea. I remember playing Lotro (6yrs) I busted my butt and earned a lot just through playing their game plus bought extras with real money. I hope GGG consider something like that. It is a goal I would try to bust my butt to get.