Make SSF a valid alternative to Trade

Way is there not features exclusively for SSF so its a valid alternative for trade. I and many other play SSF because we like the excitment of building the char with loot droping in game. To buy my self out with trade is not fun to me. With the game now traders have complaints about loot and SSF is way worse. Other games have specific features only in SSF that you cant take with you over to trade to balance it out and make SSF a valid alternative if you like that playstyle,it works great so i dont see any reason it wont work on POE2 also.

SSF is a challenge, not an alternative to trade..

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Broltus#9379 wrote:

Way is there not features exclusively for SSF so its a valid alternative for trade. I and many other play SSF because we like the excitment of building the char with loot droping in game. To buy my self out with trade is not fun to me. With the game now traders have complaints about loot and SSF is way worse. Other games have specific features only in SSF that you cant take with you over to trade to balance it out and make SSF a valid alternative if you like that playstyle,it works great so i dont see any reason it wont work on POE2 also.

Well, it is not Last Epoch at all

Count me in, I would very much welcome it.

That's not the point of SSF...at all, no, SSF is SSF...not SSF with features, this goes against the philosophy, all you want is to make the game easier.

game already too easy, declined.

ssf is challenge, not making it easy.

Ok, just to be clear i didnt make this post because I want the game to be easy, i made it because I want it to be better and more satisfying to play.. Please make it harder i dont mind it at all and if i also have lots of ways to progress my char on top of that and get that feeling it would make the game so much more fun. If i wanted easy going i would go trade but wont, dont see the point in that.

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Broltus#9379 wrote:

Ok, just to be clear i didnt make this post because I want the game to be easy, i made it because I want it to be better and more satisfying to play.. Please make it harder i dont mind it at all and if i also have lots of ways to progress my char on top of that and get that feeling it would make the game so much more fun. If i wanted easy going i would go trade but wont, dont see the point in that.

My dude, the game is hardly finished. They have easily 5-6 crafting features to add before launch.

This game has always be explicitly described and designed as being focused on trade and a player driven economy. Interacting with trade as you progress has always been the expectation. SSF was only added as an additional challenge mode back in 1, and they had a manifesto where they were very clear that even after adding that their focus is trade and that's why they'll always allow transfer into trade league from SSF and never allowed increased drops or different mechanics in SSF.

Well. Never until they change their mind of course hah.
But so far I've never seen anyone at GGG chip away at this pillar at all.

SSF is already valid and is the intended way to play the game. They just need to bring back the crafting bench so there's some agency in fixing your items.

And no, PoE was never explicitly about trading, it was always explicitly about not limiting trade. The game has always been designed to be finished solo on your own and always will be, even for end game. This is why trade was always kept at a distance by not fully incorporating it into the game.