Why is there no auction house in POE?

well just improve trade and block ALL private trade progs/api/tft/etc so we can hav fair trade
and its fixed

This is why I play on my Series X even though I have a rtx 3080 custom built PC. Its so much more fun to post items on the auction house and just hit a button to search for items.

Also you get to avoid all the bots. You don't have bots and currency sellers, and people that just snipe all items the second they get posted.

PoE plays better on PC obviously. PoE is way better on console as a whole.

Also you want a map you just click on the map and it brings you to them on the auction house to send a offer. Seller accepts and you dont have to alt tab go to a hideout.

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Id1eRace wrote:

This is why I play on my Series X even though I have a rtx 3080 custom built PC. Its so much more fun to post items on the auction house and just hit a button to search for items.

Also you get to avoid all the bots. You don't have bots and currency sellers, and people that just snipe all items the second they get posted.

PoE plays better on PC obviously. PoE is way better on console as a whole.

Also you want a map you just click on the map and it brings you to them on the auction house to send a offer. Seller accepts and you dont have to alt tab go to a hideout.

On an off-note though, I wonder why PoE won't merge all console and PC servers into one?

no AH bcoz vision and lazynies

Going to boost this because I think ggg needs to start removing external tools and sites for data safety.

If players want trade, put it ingame

Same for pob, filters, what have you.

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kekoyaso wrote:

no AH bcoz vision and lazynies

Isnt that why you want AH? I would not be opposed to actual AUCTION house but you want a fkn shop.

Bro they changed the game from arpg to dota 3 and you asked for AH.

Move on.

this was my first season of poe and no auction house makes me pretty uninterested to play poe2. I'll probably check out the campaign and...check out.

The whole system is a hassle that does NOT put people on an even ground whatsoever. Having dozens of bookmarks for items you are interested in, having to refresh pages constantly, figuring out and finding (or developing) all the litle tools that allow you to take advantage of the market --- none of it is casual friendly.


Furthermore, having to constantly leave gameplay to actually sell anything is obnoxious.

Having to sign up with a bunch of third party sites or discord with their own rules and janky systems is ridiculous.

Theres no better dopamine hit than logging in the first time for the day and seeing you got rich. Its certainly exciting to get that whisper to sell something, but the whole process is a chore and half the time that person doesn't accept your invite anyways.

This game has a (not huge but discernable) "issue" that prices for good items expoinentially skyrocket at a certain point. Its mostly linear for most of your characters progression and then any single elite item costs as much as your whole build to that point. You can argue this one way or the other.

But the higher barrier of entry, in regards to time and tools, for the average player to understand and engage with this market just means that a greater share of profits are going to smaller more dedicated group of people. No lifers and bots.

The tools and markets for desirable items are basically hidden out of game in a way that just disadvantes casual players. They should not have to subscribe to different services or run background programs to figure out the full value of their items. Every league many players will get to the to the top because they bought something amazing from someone unaware, and it should never happen that way.

Would an easy solution that didn't require a full in-game AH just be an automated version of what we have now?

If we could just purchase on an item listed for trade on the website (instead of the current whisper feature). The chaos or divines come out of our stash and at that time the purchased item shows up in a remove only tab.

Similar with the seller, item is posted, purchased and removed from stash automatically, then currency then shows up in a remove only tab.

This way no one has to leave maps and gameplay isn't interrupted for either player.

Just my thoughts...

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merko1234 wrote:

Would an easy solution that didn't require a full in-game AH just be an automated version of what we have now?

If we could just purchase on an item listed for trade on the website (instead of the current whisper feature). The chaos or divines come out of our stash and at that time the purchased item shows up in a remove only tab.

Similar with the seller, item is posted, purchased and removed from stash automatically, then currency then shows up in a remove only tab.

This way no one has to leave maps and gameplay isn't interrupted for either player.

Just my thoughts...

GGG don't want trade to be easy. Read Trade Manifesto.