RMT has broken the market. That's the story of POE2.

[GirthQQuakes]

Market is being kept inaccessible to people who play by the rules and do not RMT.

Will GGG do anything about this? They certainly have the resources to go after it with their enormous sales. But do they care?

[RedShirt]

You cant stop it no matter your budget. The people keeping it alive are the players buying the currency. As long as there is such a strong incentive people will find a way around any measure.

No that's not entirely right. You could stop it. But you wouldn't like the measures necessary to do that.

[mudcrab]

rmt kills games like this where loot IS the endgame.
Hoping GGG implements mitigation.
Imo OSRS is the ultimate case study regarding the tit-for-tat dance between RMT and developers.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Just play SSF, problem solved.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Pure Havik:

Just play SSF, problem solved.

Doesn't solve the problem, just avoids it.

[mudcrab]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Pure Havik:

Just play SSF, problem solved.

Doesn't solve the problem, just avoids it.

well said.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Pure Havik:

Just play SSF, problem solved.

Doesn't solve the problem, just avoids it.

It solves it entirely. Games like this will ALWAYS have bots. It's impossible not to.
By not having to interact at all with the market, you've now solved the problem.

If you're doing nothing but trading to where this is a legitimate problem, you're missing the entire point of the game, lol.

[simon]

Originally posted by GirthQQuakes:

Will GGG do anything about this? They certainly have the resources to go after it with their enormous sales. But do they care?

How do you suggest they do that? Ban an account thats advertising in global chat and a bot makes another and does it again. That said GGG is good at banning them if you report the player name then they are banned pretty quick. Or go through the expense and long process of getting a web site closed and another pops up. Thats even if the web site is based in a region/country that gives a damn.

The fact is, as RedShirt said, the players who buy it are the real problem. No market then no one would sell. Blame the weak willed players who have low moral fibre not GGG. The players who buy are the real scum.

BTW, nice name RedShirt. Made me chuckle.

[GirthQQuakes]

Originally posted by simon:

Originally posted by GirthQQuakes:

Will GGG do anything about this? They certainly have the resources to go after it with their enormous sales. But do they care?

How do you suggest they do that? Ban an account thats advertising in global chat and a bot makes another and does it again. That said GGG is good at banning them if you report the player name then they are banned pretty quick. Or go through the expense and long process of getting a web site closed and another pops up. Thats even if the web site is based in a region/country that gives a damn.

The fact is, as RedShirt said, the players who buy it are the real problem. No market then no one would sell. Blame the weak willed players who have low moral fibre not GGG. The players who buy are the real scum.

BTW, nice name RedShirt. Made me chuckle.

It's so easy.

That level 1 with 900 divine? Investigate and ban. The RMT company/trader loses all that currency and has to buy a new account.

Go to web, purchase an item for $5, ban the delivery guy and I'm sure GGG has a way to track and see where it came from.

It's really not that hard, they just need to care enough and go after it.

They may never eliminate it, but they can definitely make it less profitable and tamp it down.

[Astral Projection]

There's people now in Hardcore Solo Self Found at level 96. Trading is not remotely required for this game:

https://pathofexile2.com/ladder/Hardcore%2520SSF

https://pathofexile2.com/ladder/Solo%2520Self-Found

[Rogue]

RMT farmers need to make back at least 30 bucks to break even. lol.

Wait till the actual free 2 play launch, then it will be profits all day. Most egregious is the streamers/content creators who are most likely the buyers.

FYI, the chinese players are not involved since they are forced onto their own servers and have their own clients, unless they do it via VPN (Which is heavily regulated for its citizenry/China) .

[Diminutive]

RMT always breaks any online game with some kind of trading, no dev can stop this.

However if this bothers you, good news, the game has a ssf(solo self found) mode that doesn't have trading. By playing this mode you can brag to all your friends how you didn't rmt to win, granted you don't have to rmt on the normal server either to succeed.

Regardless I wish you much enjoyment on the ssf mode.

[Crim]

problem with ignoring it; the drop rate is awful and if your playing this game at a high level you will prolly need to engage in the market.

Thankfully I am just a filthy casual lol will play till the game gets more frustrating than fun then quit.

[GirthQQuakes]

Originally posted by Astral Projection:

There's people now in Hardcore Solo Self Found at level 96. Trading is not remotely required for this game:

https://pathofexile2.com/ladder/Hardcore%2520SSF

https://pathofexile2.com/ladder/Solo%2520Self-Found

Irrelevant.

I have friends to play with and am not interested in HC. The market is part of this game for most players.

Some guy playing 20 hours a day for a week and half really has no baring on this at all. I think you missed the point.

[GirthQQuakes]

Originally posted by Diminutive:

RMT always breaks any online game with some kind of trading, no dev can stop this.

However if this bothers you, good news, the game has a ssf(solo self found) mode that doesn't have trading. By playing this mode you can brag to all your friends how you didn't rmt to win, granted you don't have to rmt on the normal server either to succeed.

Regardless I wish you much enjoyment on the ssf mode.

Had you read the thread, you'd know you're like the 4th to suggest Solo Self Found.

I have friends to game with, so no thank you.

The market is part of the game. RMT is not allowed. GGG needs to do a little policing. That's all.

[Paradigmal]

inaccessible? based on what metric....im having no issues getting any items i want or need. sounds like a you problem no offense