Instant buyouts confirmed in PoE 2

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So... tradies gonna trade. Even more. With higher power, speed and volume. Expect the drop rate nerfs and/or balance around the insta trade. Solo or semi-solo players will be definetly "happy" by having this. GGG has to balance the items and scarcity around the new trading environment to compensate the capability of traders to acquire items from the market instead of farming content.

Enjoy the consequences.

Beta will be playtesting area. I bet after this time PoE 1 will get it too with some changes.

Not a game for me, confirmed.

At last.

Will play for longer as soon as its there, can't stomach the annoying downtime just to get some currency changed.

Good to see EHG issued pressure on the ultra backwards trading system in PoE.

I don't think is is a particularly bad way of implementing instant buyouts. It does have some pros and cons, though.

To make an instant buyout, a player would have to use gold. Gold, as far as I know, is not tradeable - so each player wanting to do an instant trade, would have to acquire that gold themselves, aka play the damn game themselves. Depending on how 'rare' gold is, you can't really be a hideout warrior trader if you'd want this option without playing the game a fair amount.

Hoarding + price fixing items will be harder and more cumbersome, which is a good thing.

On a negative note: This will probably result in even less answers from people when you don't want the instant option, with them replying: "Busy, just pay the damn gold".

And bots are even "stronger" in automatic trade which are instant buyouts.

You have to pay more attention to set a correct price.
The "last manual control" is gone.

Though one important thing stays.
You can still get best sells when seller doesn't know the real price (or doesn't matter).
If a bot is not faster now ...

Path of even more bots 2

People will have to make gold farmer chars that speed clear for gold to be able to trade. The gold tax will only further punish the new/slower players. I can't see a world where this system will feel any better than the current one.

PoE already has automatic trades where the items comes to you for the amount you want. It’s called bots. They are completely autonomous and their buy/sell orders are almost-instant. The only difference is YOU don’t have one running. People moping over an AH / inta trade / or any form of friction reduction is probably already in the joke (RMT/bots) so they don’t care and would rather stick with the status quo.

people saying "trading has to have friction" are the equivalent of boomers complaining that kids nowadays google everything rather than reading at the library. get on with the times, old man.