Could removing direct player-to-player currency transactions make RMT practices more difficult?

Could removing direct player-to-player currency transactions make RMT practices more difficult?

I believe RMT is a dubious practice and shouldn't be possible in a game that claims to be against it but freely allows it to happen. Furthermore, it encourages hardcore gamblers to control the crafting/selling system to sell divines and mirrors, which certainly works against people who play for fun.

my personal opinion is that to remove rmt, ggg needs to:
1) remove direct player to player trading
2) items that player drop on the ground cannot be pick up by others
3) remove buying and selling from premium tab
4) remove buying and selling from merchant tab
5) player cannot pick up items from another player via guild stash tab
6) implement global anonymous auction house for buying and selling so that buyer will not know seller and seller will not know buyer

this will completely eradicate rmt once and for all.

but implementing this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

my personal opinion is that to remove rmt, ggg needs to:
1) remove direct player to player trading
2) items that player drop on the ground cannot be pick up by others
3) remove buying and selling from premium tab
4) remove buying and selling from merchant tab
5) player cannot pick up items from another player via guild stash tab
6) implement global anonymous auction house for buying and selling so that buyer will not know seller and seller will not know buyer

this will completely eradicate rmt once and for all.

but implementing this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

nice ideas, just dont agreed with 3,4.

I like giving my friends items, not being able to trade them directly would make me sad.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

I like giving my friends items, not being able to trade them directly would make me sad.

we talk about currency, man.

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NEXUS6MAA#5747 wrote:

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

I like giving my friends items, not being able to trade them directly would make me sad.

we talk about currency, man.

The items I like to share include currencies.

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NEXUS6MAA#5747 wrote:

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

my personal opinion is that to remove rmt, ggg needs to:
1) remove direct player to player trading
2) items that player drop on the ground cannot be pick up by others
3) remove buying and selling from premium tab
4) remove buying and selling from merchant tab
5) player cannot pick up items from another player via guild stash tab
6) implement global anonymous auction house for buying and selling so that buyer will not know seller and seller will not know buyer

this will completely eradicate rmt once and for all.

but implementing this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

nice ideas, just dont agreed with 3,4.

3 and 4 is specifically to make it anonymous so that so rmt operators is unable to transfer the items to the players.

My personal opinion is that 3, and 4 is required. Otherwise all the 6 steps will not work. We need to close every loophole.

but this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

Actually ggg could have completely remove rmt many years ago. Why isn't rmt completely removed? I think many people would know the answer better than me.

I would like to see some more complex trading overhaul.


1) Gold used instead of currency
2) Exchange basic currency for gold (currency sink)
3) % dynamic gold tax for each trade (prevent inflation, flipping)
4) Auction (Both for points and gold)
5) Better currency exchange and add gold as currency
6) Customizable trade "hideout" separate from hideout, that will be used instead of Ange.
7) Time-restricted MTX (like christmas, GGG birthday, POE2 birthad etc.)
8) Rare chance for dropping MTX boxes without even paying
9) MTX trading, but only for points and with % tax. (point sink, combined with 7, 8). This will give some "meaning" and "aditional value" to collecting MTX.
10) Completely disable direct trading (player to player, guild) and anonymize everything... this fixes RMT.

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

my personal opinion is that to remove rmt, ggg needs to:
1) remove direct player to player trading
2) items that player drop on the ground cannot be pick up by others
3) remove buying and selling from premium tab
4) remove buying and selling from merchant tab
5) player cannot pick up items from another player via guild stash tab
6) implement global anonymous auction house for buying and selling so that buyer will not know seller and seller will not know buyer

this will completely eradicate rmt once and for all.

but implementing this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

Uhm... Do you want to turn the entire game into SSF?

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

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NEXUS6MAA#5747 wrote:

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

my personal opinion is that to remove rmt, ggg needs to:
1) remove direct player to player trading
2) items that player drop on the ground cannot be pick up by others
3) remove buying and selling from premium tab
4) remove buying and selling from merchant tab
5) player cannot pick up items from another player via guild stash tab
6) implement global anonymous auction house for buying and selling so that buyer will not know seller and seller will not know buyer

this will completely eradicate rmt once and for all.

but implementing this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

nice ideas, just dont agreed with 3,4.

3 and 4 is specifically to make it anonymous so that so rmt operators is unable to transfer the items to the players.

My personal opinion is that 3, and 4 is required. Otherwise all the 6 steps will not work. We need to close every loophole.

but this will come at the downside and cost that ggg cannot make money selling premium tabs and merchant tabs.

Actually ggg could have completely remove rmt many years ago. Why isn't rmt completely removed? I think many people would know the answer better than me.

So you want to remove trading ?? even if it's anonymous you can just price a garbage item at a specific high price and RMT still happen.