Please do NOT add an Auction House

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DIOandTheWorld#7430 wrote:

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vampirekid13#2811 wrote:

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DIOandTheWorld#7430 wrote:

Please GGG, don't listen to the tourists demanding an in-game auction house. PoE's trade system is unique from all other games and is far more enjoyable than all those games with auction houses. These new players just have to adapt to and learn trading in a style they haven't experienced before.

I already saw Jonathan caving in to auction house demands in the recent Q&A stream, he might as well have confirmed it after being asked about it because he said something like "we'll look into it".

PoE trade has all kinds of benefits and traits to it that do not exist in auction house systems. For example if you underpriced an item, you can change your mind about selling it for too little after getting spammed by countless whispers - in an auction house you would lose the item immediately.
Another is being able to set up live alerts and snipe great deals.

And whatever happened to your own decade long belief that trade has to exist this way so that people see other players hideouts, otherwise there's no point in hideout customization?

Don't add auction house, it will completely ruin the trading!

heres the issue, any time you have to ruin immersion by alt tabbing out of a game to do something ingame, is a fundamental failure of the devs.

so, how do you fix trading so you never have to alt tab to trade items, without an auction house. there is never a reason to alt tab out of a game for an ingame action that isnt a direct failure of the dev team.

I would be fine with trade being an in-game system but it should work with the same fundamentals: you whisper the trader you want an item from, and its that players choice if they want to sell it or not.

It just has to work like PoE trade, it doesn't have to actually be on a browser website. An auction house type system with no player interaction would be far worse for the game than what we've had for over a decade and enjoyed the whole time.

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toxiitea#5772 wrote:

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DIOandTheWorld#7430 wrote:

You posters coping that people defending the PoE trade system "are in charge of the market" are just tourists. Learn to play the game, adapt. It should not change to suit your wishes.
We have been using this trade system for 12 years and there is nothing wrong with it, its never been an issue. And I am having no problem finding the items I want right now either.

We absolutely do not need an auction house and adding one would ruin the games trading completely.

"If you don’t know the basic of commerce then you should not engage in any discussion about trading or auction house" says the guy who does not know the basics of commerce and is unwilling to learn.

The basic of commerce?

tell me how your illustrious skills in commerce and trade would help you if you went to a store and brought something to the till but just as you hand your 1$ the person at the till says... actually I want 100x times the listed price because you grabbed that dollar to fast.


you're basing "trade and commerce" like how real life would be and this system is not how trading works irl. you don't set the price after someone agrees to buy the listed price..

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DIOandTheWorld#7430 wrote:

Why are you posting even if you can't read? "Basic of commerce" was me obviously making fun of the earlier replier unironically saying "You don't know the basics of commerce".

Also yes the PoE trade system does work how real life bartering works, you adjust your goods prices based on supply and demand. Its not supposed to work like a chain supermarket with set in stone prices, its bartering like at a medieval marketplace, where prices are constantly changes.

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Kaydee#7933 wrote:

Your "benefits" are almost exclusively abusing each other for a better personal gain. And to begin with, underpricing usually only happens because this awful system exists and people are faking prices to trick each other in to underpricing their items. You're competing with bots to "snipe" good deals and they're usually underpricing because of the abuse I mentioned.

Kind of telling on yourself that you think these are good elements of a functional trade system. "I love exploiting other players for a profit"

Bring in the auction house.

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KcStep2#5702 wrote:

Trading is terrible, it's something that has been said repeatedly in poe1, it's still terrible in poe2. An AH won't fix it either. But you can absolutely not say it's in a good place. If I see something I want to buy and am sending whispers to 10 people in the hopes that one will respond, or if I'm selling something that I don't think is worth me leaving a map or whatever I'm doing at the time the 20 people whispering me for something shouldn't be punished for that.

An AH/Marketboard would allow me to put the lower priced item up there and set and forget, while people can browse it and buy it and don't have to whisper a ridiculous number of sellers to get an answer. But they want to sell MTX and Tencent have supposedly said no to the market because money. How true that is I obviously have no idea but trading absolutely NEEDS to be redesigned, because it requires third party things to function even remotely decently.