Trade site is already trash a week in
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between bots, selling divs spam, scams, people listing for one price and then replying back with 50x higher ask, etc.
We need loot to drop or we need an in game solution. Last bumped on Apr 16, 2025, 1:13:11 PM
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I even offered 10 times the listing price to test things out but still dont get an invite. try it out. this is fckn BS and GGG knows it or is most likely profiting from this.
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It's not great, but I think "trash" is a stretch. In my experience a lot of the problems can be minimized if you just take the time to filter your searches more carefully.
If you are constantly having people jack up prices on you (especially 50x), that tells me you're spending a lot of time trying to buy items far below their actual market value (i.e., you're hoping to catch ignorant sellers who don't know the true value of an item). That's totally fine and you will score the occasional "great deal" this way, but you're also going to run into these fake listings in the process. If you're just looking for a "legit" trade, then chances are you know the relative value of the item and can set your filters for items in that range which will eliminate this problem almost entirely. Searching for recent items and avoiding AFK sellers reduces the odds of someone not responding. As for bots, I'm not sure why those even make the list of problems. Most of the bots I interact with are trading legit items for legit prices and are pretty efficient about it. |
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My last trade experience trying to buy something:
Found a body armour for 1 divine. Sent a request to purchase. No response. Five minutes later, the listing updates to 2 div. Ok, fair enough I guess - the armour is good. Keep an eye on it the next few days, barely getting exalts let alone another divine. The guy adds scraps to increase quality & updates to 3 divine. Ok.... Still no divine drops, but a few days pass and no buyers. Every day that passes, more people will see that armour so I start to get FOMO. I discount a god-roll wand for 3 divines to beat the clock. Instantly get a few offers. Pick one and sell, cool I have enough now. Send another purchase request for the body armour - get no response. Wait a few minutes and ask, "still selling?" Item gets delisted. Am I too late? No - it goes back up for 10 divine. Sent another family-friendly message asking what's up. Can't get through, player added me to ignore list. Prior to that - over half of my experiences are sending purchase requests & getting no response at all, including for items that stay listed. Drop rates suck, trade experience sucks. And by the way, they auto-censor actual gear in the game like "Seaglass" but do nothing about the months of rampant spamming for that RMT discord (everyone knows the one). Are they actually the ones running it? I can't fathom any other reason they don't auto-filter out that advertising. I'm already withholding further financial support due to no word on the months of wide spread backlash against XP loss... but engaging with this game at all becomes more frustrating with every day that passes. Especially knowing more that the M.O. at the start of each new season going forward - is to nuke what works. |
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" Classic poe trading experience. I'm in standard and you should have seen the headache I went through trying to buy a maligros. I sent trade requests to every single seller all the way up to 60 divines. No one even replied for days. |
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if i recall in the latest interview vid jonathan was asked about this issue and he declined to comment.
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" So many instances in the past 2 weeks that have actively made me stop playing and hope others do as well so they can wake up and fix their biggest issues. The campaign sucks. Nobody cares how fun it is. Get wrecked. |
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Agreed, there are no reliable endgame mechanics to get gear. I don't even bother to currency slam. Then the trading site is all bots, prices are inflated by RMT, so it next to impossible to gear up.
You have created a game were we literally cannot grind for gear. I don't want to seem all downside, GGG has made amazing improvements but this is a huge issue as the whole point of an ARPG is to get gear and progress. |
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100%
Even buying things for the correct price takes forever. Basically if you see the text pop up in Chinese, you're screwed. I think the player count is made of around 50K RMT bots. |
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I think the biggest problem is that GGG is focused on their vision for the game and by pursuing that vision they haven't accounted for other things.
Specifically to have a working & functioning economy we need things like: 1. Sinks for currency that are worth using. A useful / valuable sink for currency helps keep a more stable supply of the currency so you don't wind up with (as much) inflation as we have seen earlier. 2. As far as I can tell the Atlas tree still promotes the whole "jack of all trades" philosophy and it doesn't allow for specialists to farm certain good things and then trade their time farming up goods for currency that they could trade for something else. Basically making it so that any (strong) player can farm anything they want reasonable efficiently at any time removes a lot of potential supplier / consumer relationships. The above would be fine for a SSF style of game but balancing drops around "trade" can have a tendency to make everything feel bad. To feel better, and keep trade as a thing, IMHO the campaign at least needs to be balanced around SSF + HC being enjoyable. Crafting and/or finding gear through the campaign should be all you need to have fun in the campaign. Making things stingier the closer to endgame you get would allow for that transition if needed ... |
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