Approaching 2025 and still no Auction House in POE 2, I REGRET supporting this company

GGG you need to fix this, I know you refuse to implement an Auction House because if you did that nobody would buy your useless HideOut MTX people only buy these to show off to buyers.

I know Jonathan wants to do an Auction House but management refuses to implement because Tencent doesn't want anything getting in the way of their shareholder profits.

I am sick of companies charging money for games then making bad game design just so they can promote their cosmetics, this game isn't free.

Tencent or Blizzard it's all the same scam if you ask me.

I never thought I would say this but I regret ever spending a cent on this game.

since when can you block your profile so that people can't even see you created your account just for shitposting?

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vio#1992 wrote:

since when can you block your profile so that people can't even see you created your account just for shitposting?

What nonsense are you talking about?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hlhyp6/scammers_are_already_here_stay_safe/

It's literally frontpage of Reddit that POE 2 is filled with scammers.

Why are you trying to derail the topic instead of addressing the issue?

Only one type of person supports the current scam system

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KingHadu#3474 wrote:

GGG you need to fix this, I know you refuse to implement an Auction House because if you did that nobody would buy your useless HideOut MTX people only buy these to show off to buyers.

I know Jonathan wants to do an Auction House but management refuses to implement because Tencent doesn't want anything getting in the way of their shareholder profits.

I am sick of companies charging money for games then making bad game design just so they can promote their cosmetics, this game isn't free.

Tencent or Blizzard it's all the same scam if you ask me.

I don't know where you're getting your data from but POE2 has maintained is player count consistently for 3 weeks now.

I am failing to understand how Hideout MTXs and a auction house correlate to one another.. it would be implemented like Alva..

AND character to character trading would still exist even if there was an auction house.

Trading Scamming has existed in every single APRG that has player-to-player trading and you literally need to highlight all the currency before you hit accept.

That is literally a threshold so you don't get scammed so you know what you're getting.

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QticaX#4168 wrote:

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KingHadu#3474 wrote:

GGG you need to fix this, I know you refuse to implement an Auction House because if you did that nobody would buy your useless HideOut MTX people only buy these to show off to buyers.

I know Jonathan wants to do an Auction House but management refuses to implement because Tencent doesn't want anything getting in the way of their shareholder profits.

I am sick of companies charging money for games then making bad game design just so they can promote their cosmetics, this game isn't free.

Tencent or Blizzard it's all the same scam if you ask me.

I don't know where you're getting your data from but POE2 has maintained is player count consistently for 3 weeks now.

I am failing to understand how Hideout MTXs and a auction house correlate to one another.. it would be implemented like Alva..

AND character to character trading would still exist even if there was an auction house.

Wrong, character to character Trading would die instantly if a real Auction House was implemented

Know something else would die? Scams, Scammers and HideOut Microtransactions

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hlhyp6/scammers_are_already_here_stay_safe/

there is a reason, ggg isn't posting on reddit anymore.

show me some proof, people commenting there there are even playing poe.

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of course do free access games have alot of scammers. that's the problem.
also masses bots and script kiddies.

the only thing which works against that is human proof and interaction, not bottable automatisation.

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i'm not really convinced that their currency exchange is working in the way they intended it to work.

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KingHadu#3474 wrote:

GGG you need to fix this, I know you refuse to implement an Auction House because if you did that nobody would buy your useless HideOut MTX people only buy these to show off to buyers.

I know Jonathan wants to do an Auction House but management refuses to implement because Tencent doesn't want anything getting in the way of their shareholder profits.

I am sick of companies charging money for games then making bad game design just so they can promote their cosmetics, this game isn't free.

Tencent or Blizzard it's all the same scam if you ask me.

Clearly you got scammed at some point.. there is a reason you cannot accept the offer until you highlight the items.. So you actually know what you're taking.. if you're accepting without looking that's your own fault.

This type of scam has existed for any game with player-to-player trading for more than two decades.

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QticaX#4168 wrote:

Clearly you got scammed at some point.. there is a reason you cannot accept the offer until you highlight the items.. So you actually know what you're taking.. if you're accepting without looking that's your own fault.

This type of scam has existed for any game with player-to-player trading for more than two decades.

also my guess.

and ggg could really change their game for the fact that "the higher the trade value, the less people check the trade screen with their sweaty fingers"

1) even after both players hovered over the item, the trade button should not be enabled for another 10 seconds. they could even make the timeout longer, the higher the value in the trade screen is

2) it shouldn't be possible to reopen a trade screen for 3 minutes after it has been open. this would avoid most scams and also take the pressure out of bigger trades

How excactly are you getting scammed?
Never had this problem, tradings been working fine for me

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QticaX#4168 wrote:

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KingHadu#3474 wrote:

GGG you need to fix this, I know you refuse to implement an Auction House because if you did that nobody would buy your useless HideOut MTX people only buy these to show off to buyers.

I know Jonathan wants to do an Auction House but management refuses to implement because Tencent doesn't want anything getting in the way of their shareholder profits.

I am sick of companies charging money for games then making bad game design just so they can promote their cosmetics, this game isn't free.

Tencent or Blizzard it's all the same scam if you ask me.

I don't know where you're getting your data from but POE2 has maintained is player count consistently for 3 weeks now.

I am failing to understand how Hideout MTXs and a auction house correlate to one another.. it would be implemented like Alva..

AND character to character trading would still exist even if there was an auction house.

Trading Scamming has existed in every single APRG that has player-to-player trading and you literally need to highlight all the currency before you hit accept.

That is literally a threshold so you don't get scammed so you know what you're getting.

No, POE2 is not maintaining a consistent player count at all.
It's dropping like a stone. And the trajectory is bad -really bad. I work in statistics and have followed steam games for a decade.
GGG are in for a surprise if they think they have a stable player count, OR a stable economy.
It's both heading towards disaster, and rather quickly so too.
If no big changes are made, this game is dying around mid February, and already mid January half the players will be gone.