Real Money Trading (RMT)

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KimerusDark#7070 schrieb:

The economy in the game will never be ok until they put a real auction house in-game. Were are in the second week, and everyone is already asking divines for mid-good gear, locking you on any tier you are because loot drops are the floor, and buying something right now it´s too expensive.


But being honest, they will never do an action house, because at the moment, if you wanna sell something, you need to be in game, and after this season, it´s more than obvious their focus is on engagement at all costs and pump those charts of current online players.

"if you wanna sell something, you need to be in game"

You know its completely possible to have this rule remain even with an ingame trading system in place.

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KimerusDark#7070 schrieb:

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The_Chucnologist#1739 schrieb:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2025870
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3069670
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3300117

These links should be stickied so people stop asking for an AH.

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The_Chucnologist#1739 schrieb:

Actually getting RMT out of the economy will be challenging and time-consuming. I believe that it’s best to provide constant communication that you’re working on removing it to instill confidence in the future of the game.

first of all, great post bud, i agree that trading is one of PoE2's biggest flaws.

secondly, "maybe Chris was onto something", pretty crazy right?, it's almost like one of the lead devs knew a thing or two about the game.

where i disagree with you (i think) is what direction GGG should take from here.

IMHO, SC-Trade should be a easy-mode ffa shit show with a Auction House, this is where most people should start the league, and if they decide they like it, people should then be incentivized to restart a week or two later in SSF or SSF-HC where the real game should be played for the remaining duration of the league.

incentive ideas:

#1. World of Warcraft style Challenge set/Kirac's Vault set recolor/glow: sc-trade = normal, ssf = heroic recolor, ssf-hc = mythic recolour.

#2. ssf and ssf-hc exclusive mtx.

#3. ssf and ssf-hc community events for the first 2 months of each league.

of course, in congruence with this shift we need unique item target farming (eg. div cards) and deterministic crafting (eg. MASSIVE buff to purple omen acquisition) for the average player.

RMT is available in all online games. POE is a special case, as there are so many sellers and bots that it sometimes seems like half of the online players are RMT. They become active at the beginning of the league, and you can recognize them by their constant complaints on the forum about why there hasn't been a new league for so long and why the effectiveness of the build they can earn a lot of real money on has been reduced. They don't care about having fun or enjoying the game; they only care about efficient currency farming and new leagues with fresh economies to earn more money from you.As one of the GGG members said, they approve of RMT as a joke, but who knows. There is no way to fight RMT.

I only play HC SSF, so here are my zero F-s given. Cheers! 🤣