Trade overhaul

I PoE 2 very much, but the end of the season has kept me offline for three days now.
No player wants to invest time in a game where their progress is about to reset to zero.
This is also the main reason why the PoE series has never truly taken off globally.
Now, I hope you'll listen to my free, million-dollar advice.
I promise it’s a "$30 Time Capsule" for each season.
The Time Capsule allows players to select one item at the end of the season to carry over into the next one, but this item will be bound and non-tradable.


The reason why Japanese anime with "reincarnation" themes are popular among young people is that everyone dreams of choosing an overpowered skill upon rebirth.
With the Time Capsule system, I believe it's a win-win-win-win situation!
1. In each season, additional revenue will be generated from Time Capsules, which is much better than selling stash tabs. 2. It will attract players who hate league systems, like me. 3. Because epic gear can be preserved, veteran players will be willing to spend money on Time Capsules and see you as Santa Claus. 4. Everyone wants to "start ahead," so the end of the season becomes the peak of player engagement and excitement for the game. They will invest their earnings for the whole season to get that one epic item for their Time Capsule.
I will keep reminding you until you consider this idea. Thank you.





我有一个能逆转赛末，人潮流失、价值千万的想法，免费送给你们。

我很喜爱PoE 2，但赛末让我三天没上线了。
因为没有玩家会花时间，去经营一款数值即将归零的游戏。
这也PoE 系列，始终无法在全世界大卖的主因。

现在希望你们能听从我，价值千万的免费建议。

每个赛季，都卖一个30美金的【时光宝箱】。
宝箱就是，每次赛季结束，玩家可以选一件装备放进去，跟你重回新赛季，但这件装备就绑定，也不能交易。
日本动漫【重生系列】受年轻人欢迎的主因，就是每个人都渴望，自己重生后，可以选一个逆天技能。

有时光宝箱系统，我相信是四赢局面！
1、每个赛季都多一笔时光宝箱的收入，比卖仓库好多了。
2、会引吸那些讨厌赛季制的玩家，我就是。
3、因为神装可以保存，老玩家会掏钱宝箱，还会把你当成圣诞老人。
4、每个人都想【赢在起跑点】，所以赛末才是人潮的巅峰、游戏的高潮点。他们会投入整个赛季的收入，去换一件能放入宝箱神装。

以上，采纳前，我会一直来信提醒，谢谢。

I have literaly irl friend who don't know how to use the website for trading. and playing the game, every time if he and i are online same time i need to buy hem gear upgrades. i have played 9 chars all around 80-95 level. this trading system we currently have is so bad. the website trade only benefits only those who knows how to cut profit out of it.it here would be auction house i wouldn't think rich become richer as nevertheless rich gets the item atm current trade system, even if they use unillegal sites to get currency.if auction house would apply GGG would have control over trades to ban peoples outside trades who move big amounts of currencies. i think poor get richer and it is more new players approach. there even are new players who newer even bother selling items becose that old clunky trade system.

I've been thinking about this; it's the most trivial thing to implement an in-game ML regression model trained on currency.

It really is. Trust me ;)

Throw away the top and bottom 10% of sellers based on their average price for the item or age (as in - older listings are downgraded). Helps get rid of price fixers or league non-players.

Then simply use ML to determine the ratio at which item stats drive price.


Then when average-Jose hovers over an item they see a real world price range for their item ("low-high-median"). And gods, if only that could be a loot filter.

I've heard in the past that an auction house reduces the number of players seeing your hideout MTXs. To throw in another suggestion:

Having a lockbox in the seller's hideout that allows you to pick up the item you purchased at your convenience would be better than the current system, and still exposes players to other players' hideouts.

You forgot to add that an AH would eliminate the number of times you go yo buy am item to then have the person try to raise the price on you once you are in their hideout.

Happened 3 times to me in a row when trying to purchase a focus yesterday afternoon.

Experiences like that hurt the games product. It's 2025, it's time for ah overhaul.

Trade must be in-game. But also heavily restricted.

I just spent an hour trying to buy four different 1ex items. I would Direct Whisper from the trade site. Wait. copy whisper, wait, repeat, wait, eventually move on to a different and less desirable item of the same type, rinse, repeat. I only got one of the four after doing that process for an hour. I am so irritated. Agree with everything in the original post. If you want some external site, fine, but make the actual trade not dependent on waiting for the other play to show up.

I have limited time. The trade system greatly wastes it and makes it so I play less and reduces my enjoyment of the game. It sucks.

Just want to add my suggestion here...


There might be need to put a trade cooldown/lockin

So ppl that buy the item dont resell it, and instead use the item.

I'm tired of seeing ppl buying low and selling high.

It's laughable to think anyone would want to trade with someone in game real time unless they're getting something AMAZING in a trade, forget about looking on a website.

Real time trading was replaced with auction houses in many games for a reason. It takes too much time, it's awkward and annoying to have to chat with a stranger who might be a flake or an idiot, and the possibility of getting scammed is high. It's not fun.

Personally, I'm cool with not trading at all. I prefer to find all my own gear and suffer along until what I want drops, but unfortunately the drop rates are not fun either.

What about this game is fun? I started recently, and I had fun until I hit the end of chapter 2 and can't kill the boss. Now I find out I basically can't upgrade my gear unless I figure out some nonsense external website and track down some rando in game?

I dunno, y'all. There are other worlds than these.

I am so freaking tired of trading in this game, 95% have letters i dont know what language they are, and none of them ever responds.