Auction House in PoE 2: It’s Time for a Real Solution – Let’s End the Excuses!

What they mean by 'friction' is actually keeping you in the game for longer which makes the number of players online higher so they can pad out stats to Tencent.

This was a thing with Diablo 4, except with them it was blatantly obvious like having a wind up time to create a portal to go to town etc.

All these 'friction' systems are designed to keep you in the game for longer especially when you're not doing what you actually want and playing the game

I wont even read all of that text, but easy accessible auction house will cut a lifespan of the leagues drastically for most "average" and "below average" players, as hardcore gamers barely would play the "dead" game.

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Aim_High#3562 написал:

Nah we don't need AH. We don't need trade and for sure we don't need more loot balance around economy. We need game and gameplay that allows you to get to a point where you can farm what you're after.

/Copium

I would agree, we should get crafting material that actually drops so we can craft our own gear. We should also be able to actually "craft" said gear.

But if not this, then AH.

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outlander19900#0213 написал:

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PantsuFaust#0269 написал:

I wont even read all of that text, but easy accessible auction house will cut a lifespan of the leagues drastically for most "average" and "below average" players, as hardcore gamers barely would play the "dead" game.

Where are you getting this from. Im pretty sure your assessment is completely backwards. Look how many people already quit compared to the over 1 million on launch.

Im confused at how you think this trade site is good for average player. Its a full on wtf, monkeys banging drums in my head moment. Where tf did you come up with that lol

Aswell as where did you came from with this "1 million at start and only 50k right now!!!"
Yes, if you are fresh player, this is standart POE experience - a wave after wave of people, not a stable 500k online through the years, as POE2 has some problems itself... but this problems is not an auction house. With auction house that numbers would be cut in several times. As i went through through that with D3 experience, as some of my familiar people, which had real interest in POE1, bought their builds and left a game in week.

I mean they added gold already.

Now add an Auction House and use gold as a way to prevent bots, if an item is selling for 10 divs, make that trade on the auction house cost 100k gold, if it's 100 divs make it cost 1m gold.

Players would have to actually play the game to interact with the auction house.

Alternatively Start dropping a new non-tradable currency during gameplay used only for the auction house and make it the same rarity as say exalts with less cost then if you were using gold.

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firenovix#6291 написал:

I mean they added gold already.

Now add an Auction House and use gold as a way to prevent bots, if an item is selling for 10 divs, make that trade on the auction house cost 100k gold, if it's 100 divs make it cost 1m gold.

Players would have to actually play the game to interact with the auction house.

Yep, this would stop all bots. And they can just make posting an item also cost 1/10th or 1/5th of its gold value so that people don't constantly repost and undercut or pricefix all day. That or make it so you cannot cancel auctions for 24 hours. This type of AH system would completely stop any bots and pricefixing shenanigans.

Hate seeing all these people talking about "player numbers"

It's like have you never played PoE for the last 10+ years, or Destiny, Diablo, Last Epoch, Lost Ark or ANY OTHER game that has seasons every 3-6 months?

This is all normal, people play 1 week to a month then stop once they've done the content, then return for the next season.

It doesn't matter if it's a new game, early access or a beta it's the same philosophy when it comes to seasons/leagues.

When it comes to PoE 1/2 who's going to stay on a game when you've completed everything, waste your time just for it to eventually be sent to the graveyard that is Standard. Time is precious.... experience the content then get out.