Trade locked away. 1 step forward. 5 steps back.

So to combat RMT. In a game based around trading. That brought a cool new feature for trading. You can’t use until you reach act 4?

I do not care about someone else doing RMT. That does not affect ME ENJOYING YOUR GAME. Have a bot watch the RMT guy. Ban players buying items and make a list of players banned for RMT so players are AWARE they will get the ban hammer. Will people still do RMT with this in effect? Maybe. Will this net RMT more profit because the time sink to reach act 4? Maybe.

When playing, I would pick up items along the way and say "This item isn’t for me but it could help out someone starting up." I’d bank the item and sell it for 1 exalt maybe 2. NOT MORE. There goes my cheap way of getting early map gear without grinding.

If I wanted to play "solo self find" I would have checked the box. I was beyond happy hearing "you can buy items when the player is offline" but now that feature is locked away. Sure some people can speed to end of act 3 in a few hours. Then push a little bit more to reach act 4. Would I want to do that personally and make my time just a rush to be able to trade? No way. I play with a friend who thinks that locking away trading is a good thing at first. I let him think it over.


Spent about 45 maybe 30 minutes thinking my game was jank. That way my buddy wouldnt rage quit. Did a whole lot of guessing on how to fix the error in-game with save state. Went back to the old school way. Can’t whisper the player directly from the website but can go to hideout? Ok? *Tabs the go to hideout* from trade website. it’s locked behind some NPC? Who is this person? It’s in act 4?! Why no pop up telling me in-game "hey dummy you need to reach this person in act 4."

You ever go shopping for a new pair of shoes and the store tells you that you have to beat the manager in rock paper scissors 13 times in a row before you can buy them. No. Will the player just getting into POE or returning enjoy this feature locked away? No. Don’t repeat the same mistake BSG did. They attempted to combat RMT. Yet it didn’t go away. Players just quit because their "fun" or ability to progress was taken away. Trading makes the game fun. Not even kidding. " That guy just sold me something super good" that hype you cant make up for using a scroll on an item. its not the same. both are a rush but 2 styles of a rush.

I’m upset for sure. Big old baby that im being but my friend who I play with just jumping off right off. It took me 3 months of saying your game was fun when it first released, Me buying him the game to try out, teaching him how to trade, just for it all to go to poof in the matter of 1 hour. Whoever in the community or dev team who came up with this idea. I hope you step on a lego at 2am rushing to the bathroom. If you need legos to make this happen. Ill buy them instead of spending money on this game. I might even have more free time now to deliver them also.

Friction is the Vision. ='[.]'=

oh no trade only unlock in act 4. So what. Ppl seems to cry over anything here.

do you normally trade level 30 gear?