Improvements to Trade Market honouring the Garage Sale philosophy

Hi there,

My name is Fibrith and I have been playing Path of Exile on Xbox since it was launched. Loving the game eventhough I still need to beat Uber Elder.


Recently got into the Baeclast's and wished I had discovered those sooner. Episode 41 is the trigger for this post and its about Trade and the Trade Market on Console.

Trade is a topic that gets a lot of people going. A lot of players on console look at PC and say: Hey we want the same since trade is so difficult. Give us chat and the option to check out a website, quickly find the gear, weapon, jewel etcetera we need so we can send a chat message. Perfect.

Now lets check the latest Baeclast, #41, where Chris makes a couple of statements with regards to trade. He said a lot more but this topic is specifically for trading :)

Some of these statements are:

* Pricing items is a skill, even an endgame skill for players

* Flipping items is a strategy which is appreciated in game and can also be endgame for people, which is perfectly fine.



The statement that really put things into perspective for me is the following, which was stated in this episode by Chris at approx 1:56:00 :

“Trade on console is the concept of going through to a garage sale, where you can find a treasure underneath a big pile of junk. Its meant to be hard to find that hidden treasure.”



I understand that the game needs to be difficult and that you dont want people to have end game gear a few days into the league. Heck I have been playing since launch on Xbox and still havent gotten to the stage where I was able to beat Uber Elder. Thats fine by my, including the struggle to find and get the gear I want or need. In all fairness, im happy with the way Trade works on Xbox. The userinterface is where the improvements could and should be made.



Please dont go buy outs, which you luckily wont. In all fairness, im happy with the way Trade works on Xbox. The userinterface is where the improvements could and should be made.



There are options which are not going to hurt the way trade works, but will make the trade market more enjoyable.

Here we go:



When you go to a garage sale, lets say one that is held in a Rugby stadium in New Zealand. The pitch is filled with rows and rows of junk and you can walk past those. You start going through rings and then it hits you. You saw something in the previous row so you walk back to that row and start putting aside the junk.

You find the gem, agree on price once the seller gets back from his lunch, and you continue your way through the aisles of the amazing garage sale. You go to the next area and feel great. Going back, forward and back again.

Trade market on Console could be compared to that, but there is one major difference. Every time you want to go back to an area of the garage sale, you cant. You first have to go back to start and walk all the way to the far end of the garage sale, since thats where you found your first treasure.

That comes down to something like this:



Trade --> scroll --> rings --> two stone ring --> search. Ack misclick back to start

Trade --> scroll --> rings --> Topaz rings --> search --> offer

Trade --> scroll --> currency --> chromatic orbs --> offer

Trade --> scroll --> maps --> specific T12 map --> search and offer

Every time you reached a point where you can make an offer or made a mistake, you have to go all the way back to the starting point of the Garage Sale.



The suggestion:

Instead of having to go back to the starting point of the Garage sale / Trade Market, give us the choice to either go back to the starting point or a step back.

For instance on Xbox : “B” to go back a query screen and “X” to the start of the trade board top.

The simplest ideas and suggestions are sometimes the hardest to think off, especially if you dont want to go a route which could potentially damage the game itself. This idea fits the criteria perfectly and I would be very surprised if console players would be upset if this didnt get implemented.



Thanks Chris, Jeff, Jonathan and all others I didnt mention just now.



Keep up the great work and I would be honoured to hear from you about this Quality of Life improvement regarding Trade Market console, which also honours the Garage Sale point of view.



Best regards

Fibrith

That's the one big annoyance I hope they fix. Especially bad when you look for a bunch of maps.

Totally agree with Fib.

Finally a bit of time to check the new league and guess what.

The requested QoL improvement is in game which is perfect. Thanks for having this on the roadmap already, sicne I deffo wont believe it was changed due to this post.

Thanks again GGG

Many peops are gonna be happy exiles