Auction House when?

I am 100% for an Auction House and I am appaled to see people mention trading with real money or bid wars as argument against it.
It seems people favorable of the current trade abomination simply have no clue on how and what a video game Auction House is and work.

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I think PoE2 need to lock equipped items to the player account if AH is to work because, contrarily to other games or MMO there is no real attrition on the items and this can cause problem with economy balance if people resell older items regularly. Price for lower end and leveling items will get driven to the ground.

The fact this game work in Season (why? can't figure any interest in that in a basically solo game) should alleviate the problem as the economy will be regularly be wiped back to a clean sheet.

They already have a AH/trade board system that works ok in Console Poe1..
IF they made it INSTANT BUYOUT It would of been perfect IMO.

you could still use the trade site for searches and whispers if you wanted.

now if they just implant this into PoE2 even for a test would be something.

There are many good AH systems in other games they can look to. Every single issue an AH has has been mitigated in one way or another by other teams.

The lack of an AH and the terrible death penalty(s) make this game a 'put down' after the campaign for me.

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This system should have existed long ago. Scouring the website for just the right item for you build only for the person selling to either be perma-afk or never come online is infuriating. It would be great if we could post items we want to sell (just like at the currency exchange) and come back later to pick up our newly acquired currency. Hell, make it just like the currency exchange to where the more you're selling for, the more gold it costs to post it, just to prevent someone from buying every copy of a unique just to manipulate the market value of it. Running a live search only to never get answered is beyond frustrating, it took me 3 days to be able to snag my Howas, because every single pair that showed up, the guys never answered, probably because someone else sniped it only to corrupt and resell at a higher cost even when the corrupt bricked it.

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Die_Scream#5464 wrote:

Every time I use the currency exchange I think how wonderful it would be if I could do the same for other loot. No muss, no fuss, do my trade and get back to the game.

Yup I'm not gunna sit there staring at my stash waiting for a trade. There's mobs to kill! Then there's the whole atlas map thing where you have limited portals to get back in only to get stiffed by some terrible trader who can't make up their mind.

Its 2025 GGG ditch this terrible trade system and do it good!

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For what it’s worth everyone says “auction house” but I don’t actually want or need it to enable auctions; “trade house” would be more apt. Just the ability to facilitate purchasing items at the agreed upon price without having to do the whole whisper, invite, manually trade piece would help a lot of people in a lot of ways.

Friction = bad thing.
Ease of use = good thing.

Is ..is this new information to GGG?