Market Place

First, I have to say that i am a bilingual. I don't speak and write in English very well. But I really love this game so much, from customer service to the game itself. I played a lot of RPG game before. And this is my 1st league playing PoE. Personally I think it would be better to improve our market a little bit more. I thoroughly read one of the post from PoE Lead Developer https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2025870. I see the biggest point from the post is slowing the progression of people leveling and upgrade their gears.

My idea is

We can make a market place map. Where people have to sit there to sell their stuffs to grind more currency. Which is would take us more time to enjoy the game by balancing between farming, selling, and buying. People would have to go around shopping and checking items one by one, shop by shop. It would be like in real life market.

Selling: you have to be sitting at the spot to sell your stuffs. You can put a banner on top of your head with any flashy MTX, so you shop can attract more people coming. You can price your items to sell by bulk or by single. You can set as many stash as you can. As I experienced from other games, if you do this strategy. People would want to make a second account as shopping account. They would buy more stash for this account for sure. Which is a good way to support GGG.

Buying: you have to go around check shop one by one. If you are Lucky, you can find a really good item. If you want a good set of gears, you have to shop more. But if you shop more than farming, it would slower your leveling progression. That is how you have to balance between farming and shopping. Then if you want to buy something, you just have to click on the item from seller and buyout it straight from them. You won't have to worry about scamming, people afk, or you have to wait for 12 hours to see when will that seller online. For example, if a seller sets a headhunter would be 80 exalted orbs, which is 20 ex lower than current market price. Lucky you, you just find a good deal. But you need to have 80 ex in your inventory or your stash to buy that item. It would be easy for you to buy it right away, but it would take you time to go around scouting the market.

I been reading a lot of post about our auction house problem. There are tons of debate out there about auction house, from reddit, youtube, etc. TBH I am not really good at gaming. I just love solving problem. This is my idea to make PoE keep more people after endgame. Please let me know what you guys think about my Market Place. I would love to read people opinions. :D

people would run external indexers to advertise their items, according to chris.
so you had a effective market with effective search they don't want.

if you don't wanna "waste time" for trading, why you just don't sell anything or less (how it's intended)?

the system is aiming for you to only look for other people's stuff if you are stuck finding/crafting the item yourself.

This is sort of like how trading first started in this game, except instead of making a market space in game, people put up their items in posts on these forums. But then someone made an indexer that scanned all those forum posts and compiled them into an easy search for people to find what they needed. GGG never intended for there to be anything like the situation we have now, all they did was allow people to showcase their cool stuff on forum threads. But then those showcases morphed into forum shops, then those forum shops morphed into amazon.

I don't see why your idea would end up turning out any different.

For a full history lesson on how we ended up where we are now wrt trade, check out this post - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2816421

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J3lackMask wrote:

Please let me know what you guys think about my Market Place.

1) Oh, that's so original and new...

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J3lackMask wrote:

My idea is

We can make a market place map. Where people have to sit there to sell their stuffs.

2) God, please, no...
THIS

is NOT a good idea

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J3lackMask wrote:

Buying: you have to go around check shop one by one.

3) How ...entertaining... yeah

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2) God, please, no...
THIS

is NOT a good idea

You are right, its a GREAT idea. xD
I played rag for a long time and loved that trade interaction, as does everyone i knew that played the game back then.

If you think about stock market PoE, yes it's bad, but if you think about a looter rpg its a wonderful system.

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HarukaTeno wrote:

THIS

Spoiler

is NOT a good idea

Anything that incentivizes the creation and/or sharing of more waifu pics is always a GREAT idea! :^)