Market gold sinks are a waste of player's time.

I think there kind of has to be some sort of a time sink to trading. Otherwise, botting, price manipulation, hoarding, etc, become quite problematic. Right now they are a manageable problem.

Games have various ways of dealing with that. Some games limit trades per day. Some games force limits to how much you can increase/decrease the offered price compared to the past prices. Some games promote the use of premium currencies, which are mainly created by buying them with real money, for trade. Other games have gold sinks. Some games combine many of those things.

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WhiteBoy#6717 написал:

Gold as a currency has always been a problem in games of this style, as it requires arbitrary sinks to make it relevant. This was the founding theory for PoE to not have gold as a currency, and instead have consumable currency items. It's a shame GGG decided to go against this design theory and reintroduce the same old issue.

The solution is simply to remove gold from the game, as it causes the aforementioned issue and also makes no sense in lore (all our characters should be infinitely rich after Act 3).

Path of Exile existed for a decade without any money in the game. Any system that requires a payment could be handled with consumable currencies.

I think this really mostly applies to games where gold itself can also be traded. That is what creates a problem. Without significant gold sinks, the amount of gold in the system would just keep increasing. Depending a bit on some other factors, either stuff becomes prohibitively expensive to the average player, or too cheap.

You can't trade gold in PoE, so there's no shared pool of it either.

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Securetate#3464 написал:

The whole fucking "game" is made to waste a players time.

As compared to games which give you tangible benefits that translate beyond whatever enjoyment you got from the game itself?

I mean, there's lots of educational games, if that's more your thing. Learn some math or language skills or whatnot while playing.

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tdonov5#2743 написал:

its a game, you're wasting time as it is?

Gameplay Loop:
play game -> earn gold -> trade

what you're asking is just:
trade -> trade

how will trade bots be slowed down then?

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Trade bots and Hide-out warriors and only currency traders are slowed down by this.

Side note:
Gold-tablets, Gold-maps, slaying monsters, playing the game. All drops Gold.
1. Selling all items for >100 or >1000 EXALTS is not intented.
2. Switching currency is possible but also not intented to do day in and day out.
3. Yes, if players does not have money for everything, so what?!