Trading.. what's the beef?

It seemed all too good, player placed vendors to cut down the trading hassle, but the thing is that if you are low level you are cut out from the player vendors?

What is the idea behind this? I could use some nice armor for low level when I'm playing those levels and not after I hit act4 (alledgedly) to gain access to hideout vendors?

Seems a bit not thought very through it looks like?

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Last bumped on Oct 12, 2025, 4:35:20 PM
The reason why is simple enough.

They want your first character of each league to be self created ssf style, experiencing the progression process without the power jump of purchased items, and for trading (for lower level items) to be done to itemize secondary characters, not your first character.

They delay trader access to try and force you to actually use the itemizing systems on your first character.
Also to make it more of a hassle to set up bots.
Rather than being "not very thought out" is was indeed very thought out.
Last edited by The_Song#4903 on Oct 12, 2025, 12:58:50 PM
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The_Song#4903 wrote:
The reason why is simple enough.

They want your first character of each league to be self created ssf style, experiencing the progression process without the power jump of purchased items, and for trading (for lower level items) to be done to itemize secondary characters, not your first character.

They delay trader access to try and force you to actually use the itemizing systems on your first character.
Also to make it more of a hassle to set up bots.
Rather than being "not very thought out" is was indeed very thought out.


Sort of clips one major aspect of the game away, don't think I wanna do secondary character for the league, would have helped to get the items from the market and if you want SSF you can select it when making the character which is then intended.

Clipping markets from low level characters is dumb and outright silly.
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Also to make it more of a hassle to set up bots.
Rather than being "not very thought out" is was indeed very thought out.


Except it does not stop bots or RMT and they probably don't want to. If they really wanted to do that they could make trade only be in async and anonymous. Then out side of someone using botting software just to level their own character' or someone allowing a 3rd party access to their account to "bot" for them (really stupid), there would be no reason for bots used to farm and miniscule RMT. And no scamming of accounts with hi value items on them because with 100% anonymous and no player to player how would the scammer/thief get paid?
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The_Song#4903 wrote:

Rather than being "not very thought out" is was indeed very thought out.

I've gotten to the point where, someone posts, "GGG didn't even test this," I think, "Yes they did, they just play better than you do."

State your feedback without attacking anybody, and you'll get taken more seriously.
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