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" Junkkis wrote: having AH would give casual access to end game. Which is the very thing GGG doesn't want to happen. There should be no "casual acess to end game". You see what that would mean if you take a look at diablo 3. Do you really think everyone having access to the endgame is a good thing? If anyone can casually fight shaper and uber atziri, what is the point of them being the final bosses? I make dumb builds, therefore I am.	Posted by FCK42 on Jan 3, 2018, 8:29:21 AM Quote this Post
No business makes choices without thinking about how it affects revenues. An AH would decrease revenues, or else we'd already have one. Knowing that, you'll have to convince GGG that they're wrong (and they're not).	Posted by Shagsbeard on Jan 3, 2018, 8:46:22 AM Quote this Post
" lagwin1980 wrote: " wilddoug wrote: Put an AH and this crap will stop. because the scammer/flipper is not going to be able to put a price on the AH that will be bought immediately. The answer is and always has been NO, there will be no auction house...it won't solve your problems with trade, it will change them a bit and you'll still be getting shafted and making it FAR easier for people to do it. Literally the biggest game with an auction hose has constantly been dealing with people scamming others. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=WoW+auction+hose+scamming&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=JR5CWrjwBOTBgAaJ-JuICA For instance I scammed people using it, during one of the winter events in TBC, literally a vendor selling snowballs at the entrance to the AH for a few copper, i would buy a load and dump them in and people would buy them at a gold. That's not scamming. This game would be more fun with an auction house. As it is the trading system blows. At the very least an auction house would enable price discovery. I find trade to be paralyzing because no one has any idea what anything is actually worth, and everyone is just trying to scam everyone else. It seems hopeless and like something to just be tuned out. And the longer I play, the more I realize that even if you want to avoid the scammy and broken trade system, you can't if you want to be able to progress. It's a sucky part of an otherwise pretty great game. Last edited by wideblacksky on Jan 5, 2018, 5:13:36 PM	Posted by wideblacksky on Jan 5, 2018, 5:10:22 PM Quote this Post
" This game would be more fun with an auction house. No the hell it wouldn't. " It seems hopeless and like something to just be tuned out. And the longer I play, the more I realize that even if you want to avoid the scammy and broken trade system, you can't if you want to be able to progress. It's a sucky part of an otherwise pretty great game. I've been playing Path for 4 years and have never come close to being scammed and I've traded plenty, as has most of the playerbase, stop exaggerating. I'm glad this game has been getting the attention it deserves, popularity benefits everyone, but in situations like these you just have to pray GGG isn't weak or dumb enough to listen to newcomers' whining or people with the same oblivious mindset as them.	Posted by toiletvape on Jan 5, 2018, 6:28:56 PM Quote this Post
" Nephalim wrote: I am strongly in favor at least for an AH for consumables such as maps and small orbs. It is such a pain to trade for these and an in house system could remove the horribleness of market fixing seen on poetrade. I totally agree with u. With getting those currencies, half of them does not reply if it is a small amount. For lower tier map, it just pain in the ass	Posted by xslasherz on Jan 6, 2018, 10:26:18 AM Quote this Post
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" Shagsbeard wrote: Knowing that, you'll have to convince GGG that they're wrong (and they're not). They were wrong about stuff before , just give it time :D	Posted by skaterboy80 on Jan 27, 2018, 1:56:59 AM Quote this Post
I actually don't care what is it called but I wish I can sell things without me being online and trade it manually. This also QoL for someone who is uber lab farming or just don't like portaling to HO just to trade.	Posted by zangora on Feb 1, 2018, 9:25:28 PM Quote this Post
" skaterboy80 wrote: " Shagsbeard wrote: Knowing that, you'll have to convince GGG that they're wrong (and they're not). They were wrong about stuff before , just give it time :D They have been wrong about this, and still very much are. Trading should not be such a negative PITA. IGN:Axe_Crazy	Posted by MasterAxe on Feb 2, 2018, 7:13:14 AM Quote this Post
Few years ago i would be against AH, but now im 100% agree that it should be in the game. Trading here is horrible. I want to buy something: i copypaste text from trade www, and spam it unitl someone respond. Its not interaction. I want to sell something: i have to keep PoE launched so i can hear someone texting me. Its idiotic. Last edited by Zloberik on Feb 2, 2018, 8:38:11 AM	Posted by Zloberik on Feb 2, 2018, 8:37:38 AM Quote this Post