YOU MORONS CRYING FOR AUCTION HOUSE DIDNT SEE D3

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Ageless_Emperion wrote:

Those who have entirely lost perspective on how item acquisition and progression works in the game should not be the ones directly interacting with GGG and influencing their decisions.

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Lynerus wrote:

I dont really play d3 and i didnt know about this but i do play Maplestory and its got an AH (more then one for other stuff or did) and its got player ran shops

AH is fine...

This game already has trading and its mostly already an AH its just a shit and lazy way to do it since it isnt even ran by the games own devs (at least i dont think no idea who owns poetrade)


I dont get how one in the game would hurt it would be the same thing but less time wasted less time waiting around for players to not be afk/in maps etc

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majesw wrote:

I'm sorry I missed so much of this topic. The OP is completely wrong. The AH in Diablo 3 was fantastic. There are a few reasons that it “failed”.
The first reason is that there was zero item, build, or end-game diversity in vanilla D3. Everyone wanted the same item mods and legendary items weren’t really part of the game. This lead to people easily maxing out their one character and having zero incentive to re-roll since everyone farmed the same things.
So Blizzard created a system where each player needed a total of around 11 items and were confused as why people “finished” the game so quickly. They blamed this on the Auction House.

Now the Real money side is a different story. I still think this was a success from a player perspective. I enjoyed making money and I used the money I made to buy 1-2 things too. Unfortunately, with no diversity in item drops it was tremendously difficult to find anything to sell and the only real way to make decent money was to large scale flip items.
From Blizzard’s side I think the RMAH was an absolute nightmare. Now, I do think that they made a whole bunch of money from it. But I think dealing with tax laws was too much for them. One of the reasons they went with the RMAH was because they had been pressured for years to cut down on 3rd party sellers. When they found out they couldn’t deal with tax regulations they decided to try something completely different (removing the economy entirely).

Now the real question is can PoE support an Auction House? I personally think that it has the depth to do so. There are so many items to find, so many builds to do, and a lot of different things to farm in the end-game that people won’t “finish” the game instantly like they did in D3. Now I fully realize that most leagues last about a month (some people finish in a week or two). But keep in mind we already have an AH in place… It’s just absolutely terrible. It really wouldn’t speed things up a lot to have a good one.

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wilddoug wrote:

I think POE is a great game, but trading in game is terrible. I think it should be GGG number#1 priority to fix the trading in games. I remember playing DAOC years ago, and you could have a vendor that you could have at your house and you could sell items off your vendor. Not sure if they could do the same way out of your Hide Out and someone have a vendor that other players could buy items off of? Not really a AH but a vendor that our could have to sell items.