GGG, Honor Veterans: Convert 4 Premium Tabs to Quads, Then to Quad Merchant Tabs for Fair Upgrades!

TL;DR: In order to enable players to convert 4 × Premium Stash Tabs to 1 × Premium Quad Stash Tab to 1 × Premium Quad Merchant's Tab, as well as to enable the direct conversion of previously owned Premium Quad Stash Tabs into Premium Quad Merchant's Tabs, a one-way conversion path should be included. This minor QoL adjustment respects veteran purchases, improves trade flow, lessens stash clutter, and is technically simple with the right protection.

First of all, thank you. Truly. I’ve been a player since the early PoE1 days and PoE2’s early access has been a real joy, even with the setbacks. Features like the asynchronous trade system and Merchant’s Tab show the team is thinking forward and listening to the community. That’s why I want to raise a specific, practical suggestion around stash-tab conversions that would make a huge difference for long-term supporters and active traders alike.

Right now there’s an odd gap: Premium Quad Stash Tabs (the 4× capacity tabs) aren’t included in the existing conversions to Merchant’s Tabs, as confirmed by a staff member here (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3826781/filter-account-type/staff).

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Novynn wrote:

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cdrpoe#1004 wrote:

Will quad tabs be able to be converted?

Nope. Only straight Premium Stash Tab purchases.

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cdrpoe#1004 wrote:

Will items be able to be priced via the tab name in Merchant tabs the way they're able to be priced currently via Premium stab names, so you can price the entire tab and not have to tediously set a price on every single individual item?

No, you have to individually price each item. The interface does auto-fill with your last price however.

Plus, there’s no supported way to bundle four regular Premium Stash Tabs into a Quad as part of that path. Functionally, a Quad is four regular tabs' worth of space. Excluding them from the Merchant path penalizes players who chose the “bigger, more efficient” option. It also creates clutter and forces awkward workarounds. My proposal is a simple, one-way, abuse-safe conversion flow: let players bundle any four Premium Stash Tabs into a Premium Quad Stash Tab, then convert that Quad into a Premium Quad Merchant’s Tab. Additionally, allow already-owned Quads to convert directly into Quad Merchant’s Tabs.

There are several strong reasons to do this. First, it honors player investment. Many of us have invested significant time and money in tabs because we love the game and want to support it. Allowing conversions that recognize functional equivalence between four regular tabs and a Quad signals respect for those purchases and builds goodwill. Second, it materially improves inventory management. Consolidating multiple smaller tabs and converting them into merchant-ready quads reduces tab sprawl, simplifies workflows, and makes listing and trading feel modern and efficient. Third, it strengthens the trading ecosystem. Merchant’s Tabs are a major innovation, making it easier for players to move items into merchant-sized spaces will increase the number of properly listed items and boost market liquidity. Finally, it’s low-risk engineering: this is largely a metadata and UI change with well-understood safeguards available to prevent abuse.

To make this safe and clean from an engineering and policy perspective, conversions should be one-way and atomic on the server. Irreversibility prevents arbitrage. The conversion should update tab-type metadata only - items keep their GUIDs and are not duplicated - and a transaction log should record each conversion for audit and rollback if needed. Basic rate limits (for example, a generous per-account daily cap) help catch anomalies without inconveniencing legitimate users. Whenever possible preserve tab names, icons, colors, and other user-set metadata through the conversion so things remain familiar to players.

From a UX standpoint this should be discoverable and simple: add a “Convert Tab” action to Stash Tab Settings where players can select four Premium tabs to bundle into a Quad, or convert an existing Quad into a Quad Merchant’s Tab. A confirmation modal should clearly state the action is permanent, that items remain intact, and show a small preview of the resulting quad/merchant tab. For convenience, add a bulk helper to pick four eligible tabs and preview the outcome before committing. Keep dialog copy concise and explicit about irreversibility.

On policy and rollout there are reasonable options. The cleanest goodwill choice is to allow conversions for all Premium tabs regardless of purchase date. If the team prefers stricter limits, a conservative approach would be: allow bundling from 0.3 purchases only (to preserve whatever special handling exists for that window), but allow any Quad → Quad Merchant conversion for all Quads. Another middle course is to offer a one-time free conversion or a nominal points fee for the 4 → Quad bundling step while keeping Quad → Merchant free. Any of these can be A/B tested during a staged rollout to measure impact on purchases and goodwill.

In short: this is a high-impact, low-complexity change that treats veteran supporters fairly, cleans up the stash experience, and amplifies the benefits of the Merchant’s Tab system. It’s a small one-way server-side metadata operation plus a clean UI, audit logging, and a brief monitoring plan, but it would be noticed and appreciated by the community.

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This persons post should not be ignored this is a genius Idea!!

GGG you could even charge a upgrade fee (15-25) to convert 4 small to one quad and generate revenue as well!