Why is there no auction house in POE?

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Kirby1978 wrote:

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Heli0nix wrote:

Because GGG obviously want to encourage social interactions :)

Here is the social interaction: "Ty gl" .. thats all.

An Auction House would be so great.
No Alt+Tab all the time.. playing in Fullscreen.. no slow trading websites.
And .. you can finally play the game and don´t waste time with writing to 30 people cause no one is answering cause they are playing the game

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trixxar wrote:

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finisterre wrote:

I do trade and I'm not hating the improvements "in general (yet I don't get the intent of using general to describe this matter)" at all but asking their purpose.

Specific problems solved by suggested improvements in this thread

-Numerous messages to complete trades, particularly as league ages
I pay enough to buy single items. If I need tons, I expect higher limitations/competitions.

-AFK people not responding
Good for them.

-"Scams" using the word loosely inherent in current trade windows
If I expect high, I expect high chance to be scammed.
Edit: I do understand the point. I'm trying to make a clear market standard and share. I expect code-wizards to write it down on the scripts. Still it doesn't prevent its own bug-hole though. It should work at some limited degree/area at least. (and we got some already though it's failing for some eyes.)

-Limited items particularly late in the league
If I can expect this happening, I prepare beforehand. It's kind of important behavior for me to manage my gaming experience to suit to my preference.

-Alt tabbing from gameplay to search, breaking immersion
Trading breaks my immersion but I respect other's. I do try to serve the market as a good trader to keep the market standard. If I found my standard has no sense, I simply serve to my own goodies and share the outcome.

-More time trading for a map than it takes to play it
It's highly relating to game balance/design and personal preference. no comment for reasons at current state.

-Intentionally bad (or if you prefer, frustrating instead of bad) game design to fix other bad game design (I mean, if you know you need trade, why did you not design the game to handle trade in the first place. Now trade is annoying because you designed the whole thing poorly from the ground up? Stupid reasoning.)
I don't understand the point to make a bad list to find/create a good game from the ground up. /offtopic I intentionally avoid this behavior to avoid anxiety neurosis for myself and others. Long story for short, I've learned to ask help when I have issue to understand others.

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Mortyx wrote:

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finisterre wrote:

I don't really get the baseline of this topic. You want to run idling game (bot ware) behind PoE and share the outcome to have better result among the other ?

Is there any practical way to limit the frequency of trading activity in automated transaction on a "free to create account" game ?

Well, outside the fact that bots already control the market right now without an AH, there are actually plenty of ways where an AH actually reduces bots impacts, just out of my mind:

1- Limit the amount of trades per minute/hour/day/numbers and require a premium stash for automatic transactions (this way even if they create millions of accounts they will still have to at least pay GGG for the premium stash),also 3.;

2- Require some playing element for each trade (map bosses drops a untradable currency that is required to make the trades);

3- GGG uses the information that an ingame AH can easily provide to quickly identify and ban outliers(bots), this will limit the bot speed to a human speed, so they will do little to no harm whatsoever to the economy;

And many more alternatives can indubitably be thought with a little of brain stimulation.

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finisterre wrote:

If I can expect this happening, I prepare beforehand.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

This game thrives on want. You want stuff. Imagine if you could have it. Where would the fun be?

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Deathfairy wrote:

So many posts defy basic logic, who needs logic when there is conviction.
The only thing i can say at this point is thanks god it is GGG who is developing this game and not some of the people in this thread.

@Unquietheart
I truly admire your attempts clearly explain reality. Too bad it does not matter to people you talking to.

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Fapmobile wrote:

All you need to know is here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2025870

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jtggm1985 wrote:

Chris is making it harder than it should be based on his stated design visions.