Next Patch / Version -> Add Auction House / Work on Trading

Hello,

I know I know that the title of the topic will kinda annoy some people but honestly, for casual players or players that currently have a lot of things in their life the Trading aspect of this game is getting worse and worse.

On the previous version 0.1 from maybe 130 hours of gameplay I had (or more) I probably spend about 30 hours on the trading website looking for specific items for my builds (as I had multiple heroes over 90lvl). Started to play the 0.2 and honestly its even worse. Leveling up, DM-ing people for items that could help me go thru my content and simply waiting and waiting to get an invite its just getting too annoying.

On the PoE1 I can't even count how much I have spend on the trading part of the game, to make things easier I had to even go to specific discords (not gonna say the name as I'm not sure if its okay or not) in order to get things sold or purchased faster. And I mean maps, items, keys, anything that could not be yet placed in game takes some times days to actually purchase or sell. I'm not sure how a modern company hasn't yet presented even a demo standard of something like an Action house (as other games like WoW or Diablo 3 or Torchlite Infinite or other games that have been out and about. I'm not asking for that much as the PoE and PoE2 is really nice to play and enjoy it, but honestly when I have to upgrade my gear due Trading and I'm stuck not because I don't have the currency but because about 40 people don't reply back/invite kinda makes me Alt+f4.

For the next patch they can start with something small such as the Legendary Items, later on they could try and introduce the rare/magical items.
They can spicy it up such as:
- Be level 60 to post in the Auction House / lvl 20 to Purchase from it | Again the Auction House in Game, you can still post things on the Trading site without any issues;
- Have a limit of 10 items that you can post in the Auction House for 12 x 24 x 36 hours or the standard which is 24 x 48 x 72 hours and it will cost Gold to post or simply to get your account verified in a way.
- As I stated it could be a simple AH that first will introduce Legendary items only with simple filters.
- Have the option for Bid and Buyout, as for people that are not sure how much that item will cost to simply leave it on 'Bid' and if they know how much they want for it (or are short on currency and want to fast sell it then 'Buyout').

I mean if they start with a small step in adding such an option in-game it would be amazing and it would actually lessen the burden of dealing with Trades that majority of the time take longer than expected.

I mean we have all been there and honestly its not a very nice feeling that we have felt when it took more time than what we had to play the game.

+1

No word off a lie i spent 30 min earlier trying to buy a unique shield for 10-15 ex not one invite after i messaged 30 people.....

so i took a breather came back an hour later booted up poe right let me try and buy that item again.... 30 min later again still no item brought.

this is beyond a joke now im sure if you can add currency exchange in game it cant be too hard to do items or even if it is hard then at least start working on it please.

+1

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Karizmaa#2977 wrote:

No word off a lie i spent 30 min earlier trying to buy a unique shield for 10-15 ex not one invite after i messaged 30 people.....

so i took a breather came back an hour later booted up poe right let me try and buy that item again.... 30 min later again still no item brought.

this is beyond a joke now im sure if you can add currency exchange in game it cant be too hard to do items or even if it is hard then at least start working on it please.

It's interesting that people always make this claim, yet I have never once had it happen to me in 8 years of poe + all of poe2 so far.

I bought 3 rings in the space of about 5 minutes off 2 different people, for 1 ex each yesterday. This has ALWAYS been my experience. If you are trying to buy something underpriced, then likely no one will respond. And if it is underpriced, click the send message button on all of them and move on.

I played games so others can experience everything and then I buy it from them. That is how I like to play itemization games. I get no items and then I buy them because reasons. Why do you keep suggesting the worst possible system that has been ripped out of every single ARPG in history because it ruins the game every single time. You cant have a f'ing itemization game with little to no items or based around drop rates to feed a fake economy. That is just communism with a controlled and manufactured economy. Its not a legit market. Why would you want to make this worse than it already is. The ONLY reason you need to trade at all is because they dont drop any items of any value EVER. Its programmed to drop crap you trade. Its the exact same thing diablo did that destroyed the franchise entirely. They never recovered from the auction house scam they ran and now you want to do the exact same thing