The trade system in PoE1 was garbage, and it's still garbage now in 2
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This trade system is so fucking infuriating at times, and has been forever, basically. Items posted only show when the person is online, and frequently they can't be bothered to answer the queries to buy their crap when you do whisper them directly through the site. Then, you see the afk flag pop, then they're back online. Then, they decide they can't be bothered and log off an hour later.
A game that you want focused heavily around trade requires smooth trading to actually occur. And sure, in probably 75% - 80% of the cases (personally, I've heard worse in some cases, better in others), it does. But, when you find that ONE item that really fits what you're looking for in the moment, and you see the online indicator, and you never get a reply back? That is not smooth trading at all. It's exhausting trying to make gear changes when this happens multiple times a day when doing some heavy playing on the weekend, and luckily for me it didn't leave me in a lurch, but some folks get caught with their pants down halfway through changing out an entire set / spec, and end up with a character they have to either settle for something inferior to keep playing, or sit around with a thumb up their ass. God, there's so much promise and potential in 2 and its supporting systems, but it's like you all failed to consider the 12 years of learning you took away from 1 and blindly forged forward, forgetting that you were making a game in 2024 and not 2014. Dernier bump le 9 févr. 2025 22:17:27
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Well, one of their goals was to make this game more casual friendly. I'm surprised this system wasn't changed to align with that. Casuals hate having to alt-tab out of the game, use a website, whisper and hope someone responds, warp to the person, and manually trade.
Hopefully, they eventually change this. |
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It's inexcusable to not have a buyout option that automatically sends the item(s) to the buyer and the currency to the seller facilitating the trade automatically.
GGG's stance against this defies all logic. They seem hellbent on keeping things like this that do not respect the players time. All this does is royally piss off the players who want to trade, but never get responses from anyone. GGG says they want trade friction. Is this really their idea of friction? |
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" " It's honestly not even that far off from being able to make the changes needed for a buyout as the situation currently stands, too. They can already read the contents of a public stash tab, read its price, and post it to the trade site. The site can facilitate a direct whisper from site to seller at the click of a button... I'm not saying we need to go to the point of an auction house, but if you took the trade site, made it in-game friendly, and added just a little more functionality to take currency and swap items, it'd ease so many problems. I'm all for keeping some things to the 'negotiate price' option, which might complicate matters a little bit, but that option is used very rarely. Just that little bit of effort would ease 99% of trade woes, and also remove the ability to be scammed we see players bringing up when someone inevitably gets takes for their Divs. And yeah, it'd make it so much more casual friendly too. It'd be a great way to make life so, so much easier for both sellers, buyers, and flippers. |
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