So is there a reason POE doesn't have an Auction house?

[Merilirem]

Just curious if its one of those "against our ideals" Or "its harder than it appears" things. I mean i know everyone has wanted one for awhile, and i don't really see why not. So anyone know this?

[R̷e̷n̷v̷e̷n̷a̷r 💀]

Technically, there is one. It's PoE.trade, which is widely used (and actually easy to get into, since they got tutorials. Unless you're a pleb like me)~

[Stewie]

There are a couple videos you can look up explaining why there is not an "Auction House".
To sum it up the market would be completely broken due to the influx of new people introduced to the game with no real understanding of how the currency system works in PoE and the amount of garbage items that would end up flooding the market place (Auction House), not to mention the bigger factor of when each League ends. All items from every league are introduced into "Standard" League, so every few months prices on the rarest currency and Gear would drop significantly and for those on standard that already have a ton of wealth could just buy/trade for a large amount of the currency coming in form an ended league. Rich get richer and the poor stay poor. (This is just my opinion) of what would happen but I'd say it would be hard to argue either way.

[mss73055]

If you have played any MMO with an auction house you know the outcome.

If you are a sweat-shop dwelling illegal refuge you will take every opportinity to improve your life.

[Lagwin1980]

because thge devs don't want one as they feel it's the wrong way to trade in game (proven by D3)

[ShakeWeight]

Plus seeing how prices differ during leagues than in standard and how the economy right now is all on demand.

[Merilirem]

Fair enough, im already using POE.TRADE. I just wished it was more conveinient, less afkers and guys who don't respond within the few hours you were playing.

[GarvMAD]

Merilirem u should find instant trades if u just search for Online only on poe.trade

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Windmill of Friendship:

Merilirem u should find instant trades if u just search for Online only on poe.trade

...I have never searched anything else lol. Guess im just unlucky.

[Awesome!]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Just curious if its one of those "against our ideals"

that one. they like the idea of players needing to interact with each other, even if its just copy pasting a line from poe.trade and clicking a few times. also why every character doesnt have access to all the skill gems.

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Fair enough, im already using POE.TRADE. I just wished it was more conveinient, less afkers and guys who don't respond within the few hours you were playing.

if they dont respond/invite within about 10 seconds i just move on to the next person in the list.

[KayJ]

Originally posted by CptWeasle:

There are a couple videos you can look up explaining why there is not an "Auction House".
To sum it up the market would be completely broken due to the influx of new people introduced to the game with no real understanding of how the currency system works in PoE and the amount of garbage items that would end up flooding the market place (Auction House), not to mention the bigger factor of when each League ends. All items from every league are introduced into "Standard" League, so every few months prices on the rarest currency and Gear would drop significantly and for those on standard that already have a ton of wealth could just buy/trade for a large amount of the currency coming in form an ended league. Rich get richer and the poor stay poor. (This is just my opinion) of what would happen but I'd say it would be hard to argue either way.

Your points are pretty easy to fix if I'm going to be completely honest. In order to keep the market from looking flooded, just reasonably limit each players listing on the market and allow filters. Say maybe one stash tab of items are available to put up at a time. Also, to not kill standard economy they would just dump everyones listed items to their standard/hardcore stash, like they already do for league stashes.

There's no reason to me why poe.trade can't just be an in game feature. It's already partially implemented. A decent in-game interfaced poe.trade and tracked currency conversions would add a fair amount of quality of life for the game.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Sprinkles:

Your points are pretty easy to fix if I'm going to be completely honest. In order to keep the market from looking flooded, just reasonably limit each players listing on the market and allow filters. Say maybe one stash tab of items are available to put up at a time.

And how do you stop people from using multiple accounts to circumvent the limits per account? (Note that multiple accounts are perfectly fine.)

[Merilirem]

Its all moot if they want player interaction, which is a valid point.

Its also the only thing that changes with the poe trade system, everything else is pretty much the same, if not slightly less convienient.

[Voelkar]

Do you want a fail like Diablo 3? Because thats how you get a fail like Diablo 3.

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Dome:

Do you want a fail like Diablo 3? Because thats how you get a fail like Diablo 3.

I never played Diablo, i mean not more than demo's and passing looks. Not that it matters since this topic was more about why its not in game, not that diablo messed itself up.

[Septic]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Its all moot if they want player interaction, which is a valid point.

Its also the only thing that changes with the poe trade system, everything else is pretty much the same, if not slightly less convienient.

Tbh most if not all interactions with other ppl while trading, boils down to both parts hitting trade after the trade is done ppl leave. I kinda get that they want ppl to talk etc... when trading but does it really happen enough to use it as a valid arguement against an AH?

As mentioned an AH basicly exist via poe.trade but would some sort of ingame feature(npc maybe?) that would do the same as poe.trade but kept the player ingame not be a welcome feature?