We need to raise our voices for Auction House system

Gotta add to the voice of community. I personally do not mind browsing website for items but its probably coz I'm way too used to it after few K hours in PoE.
I just want system to be automated even if through website.
I see listing, I click buy, game checks if I have currency in my stash, if so I pay and I get item to my stashtab or if thats problematic just make Alva have notification above her just like when currency sells. Click her and she can have menu with items you bought kinda like "Buyback stash" in vendors.

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Legoury#0138 wrote:

But the favor needed to trade is not an issue at all for bots, they just farm 24/24, with hundreds of PC. Ofc they have enough ressource to make trade.

And ofc LE is full of bots, as POE2 is. Just type "Last Epoch buy gold" on internet, and have a look. Dozens of website selling gold for real money.

Again, if you make an auction house, and you dont do anything against bots, you are just saying loudly : "Come bots to farm our currencies and sell it against real money for thousands of hundreds of players playing our game and using it to buy stuff" !!!

I mean, botting is far, far worse and more prevailent in PoE1 & 2 than LE. They already completely control every aspect of the market without an AH.

And while bots will have favor, the point is a single bot can't control the market. In PoE2, you can have a bot farm of hundreds running, pile all the currency into a couple of characters, and just manipulate the currency market all day all you want to make even more $$$. Of course, they do control the market for all the high end chase uniques items, but yeah. You CAN do this in LE, but it's way, way, way harder, because a single character can't do many trades, bot or no. This means that you have to have all of those hundreds of bots doing the trades and cycle through each character one at a time, which kind of defeats the purpose of running the hands off bot farm in the first place.

And while you CAN buy gold for LE, it's not really the bottle neck for trades until you get to the top few % of items. Favor is. And you can't buy that. So it's effectively removed nearly all of the incentive for the player to buy gold in the first place, because gold is not your bottle neck.

The whole argument makes no sense. The bots already completely own and destroy the market every season in PoE1 & 2. If you implement an AH the way LE does, it's a bit more work to do this. And it's certainly 100x better than the market being completely controlled by botters from day 1 like it is in PoE. The AH isn't going to make this any worse than it already is, and if you do it right can make the botting issue a whole lot better.

This is not in their vision

No offline instant trade transaction equal no PoE for me.

They want there game to be based on trade and not loot nor craft then they have to provide the adequate and modern trade tool.

Otherwise the game is just a scam to provide a target rich environnement for RMT and conmen.