The economy in the console is in a difficult state.

Hello everyone, there is an exaggerated increase in some of the existing items. If you notice the prices on the PC, you will find that the console is not accurate in determining the price and is exaggerated in many of the unique items. This is because there are many players on the PC, but the number on the console is small. I find that improving the percentage of items falling may be a positive solution.

Sell stuff you find and you will be able to afford console items.

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REDRQ wrote:

Hello everyone, there is an exaggerated increase in some of the existing items. If you notice the prices on the PC, you will find that the console is not accurate in determining the price and is exaggerated in many of the unique items. This is because there are many players on the PC, but the number on the console is small. I find that improving the percentage of items falling may be a positive solution.

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It's called an economy.

GGG doesn't set prices, and doesn't even have target prices in mind. The prices are set by the players, through supply and demand.

The smaller economy isn't worse, it's just different.

I always recommend to console players to follow SSF guides for leaguestarter builds, so that you aren't reliant on availability of items on the trade market.

Now, I *do* wish they would do more to deal with market manipulation, because a small number of coordinated players can have a very disproportionate effect on the smaller economy on console.

I also wish they would make the rarest temp-league items more common. It's way too often that they showcase some cool new thing (unique, currency, crafting thing, etc -- e.g. certain Runesmithing enchants) and it turns out that 99% of players won't have access to that cool new thing during the league.

We already have aspirational super-rare items (like Mageblood), there's no need for temp-league stuff to be giga-inaccessible as well.

Best possible outcome would be shared economy with pc now that the league starting date is also same. (yes I know that the mtx shop at poe website vs ps store is one big problem.)

But in comparison 1 tier1 unique on ps 14ea, xbox 12, pc 4954ea. Even if you combine ps and xbox standard, its not even half of the pc on league.

These are not gamebreaking uniques but kinda part of almost all builds and if you want to use these on console you have to get lucky or sell a s***ton on stuff to be able to buy these.

And no, I dont want to play ssf. Yes economy is what the people selling make of it but I still hate the fact that you scramble something up every league or get lucky to be able to play with good(not the tier 0 chase) uniques.