Quitting this game because I got scammed out of all of my currency.

I've had my share of good and bad experience in PoE2. I've been on the receiving end of kind traders who will give a 1 ex item for free, and I've tried to pay it back in kind by handing out items and exalted as much as I can to new players. I'm not a great player by any means. I try to follow builds, make adjustments as I see fit, and grind as much as my job will allow. I think that's over.

A recent interaction literally just makes me want to puke. I earned my currency over the course of 80 hours of gameplay, buying magic bases and crafting them up to better rare bases. Selling until I saved up 18 divines. I spent 3 days checking the trading site on and off to try to get a Morior Invictus with 10% All Elemental Res + 5% Attributes. After finally sending a trade invite to a guy and finally getting the invite accepted, I entered the trade with him and he showed the real item.

He quit the trade, reentered and I proceeded to put in the same currency... just to get scammed when he dropped in a chest with 5% Max Life + 10% Elemental Res. Literally worth 25 exalts.

I work 10 hours a day. I don't have time or patience anymore to hideout warrior my way back to getting enough currency to get to the stage of the game I was just at. I get that I was a dumbass for not double checking after he exited the trade. But I'm done. I just don't have it in me anymore to see all that I had go down the drain just cause some asshole wants to scam his way to getting currency. Fuck this trading system, and fuck this game.

Didn't you already make this thread? Move on dude it's just early access.

POE trade is trash, man... I'm genuinely convinced that these pains are features from GGG, not bugs.

I pled POE1 and always felt that way there as well. Trading becomes a part-time job if you want to really get through end game content because you have to be online to trade.

It's unlikely that they'll ever have an auction house because it would be too 'friendly' to casual players.

Still a fan of POE, but not the incessantly antagonistic design philosophy toward QOL features. C'est la vie.

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