Website is broken half the time, if they don’t want an AH. At least make an official website like poe. Group Finder would also be nice, makes a beautiful open world but just discards the social aspect of it.
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if you want to play solo self found you can choose that but for the rest of us we want trade. your play style choice shouldnt effect us when our choice to trade doesnt effect you
I think it’s only a matter of the time until they implement one, don’t think it’s going to come with the expansion, so probably next year.
But I hope they have the wisdom to make it a gold only AH, cough Diablo 3 cough.
In all seriousness, it will make trading feel alive in the actual game, and no, it won’t solve the botting issue (Blizzard can fix that separately if they really want to), but it sure as heck will keep more people in game and off third party platforms.
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the last time they put in a ah was for real money. thats what people were mad about but i wont lie. I did make a lot of cash that first month the real money ah was out in d3. We just want a normal trade for gold ah
This is why I just hate engaging with trading in ARPGs and why I’m so put off of PoE. I want to just grind and find gear rather than browse trade websites all night to try to setup something.
I’m for an AH. I also would like them to implement an SSF mode in tandem.
I mean the bans clearly don’t work because the RMT business in D4 is thriving, there’s dozens in sites dedicated to it that have been around since day 1.
But yeah I agree an AH isn’t going to lessen it worsen RMT, its going to happen regardless.
Because they can ban all they want. Paying for the game again is nothing compared to the money they make by selling gold and mats.
I still want an action house. I quite enjoy trade in poe the only bad thing is the player interaction that is required. An AH where I can put in my stuff… login off making money … login in looking at the gold I made… yeah that would be hella great.
Looking at Last Epoch tho. Their AH is absolute garbage… mostly because of RMTraders that push prices into oblivion where no sane player can buy great, wanted items without swiping the CC.
Diablo 4 would probably have the same problem. Because lets face reality. Even now with only the third party sites. Prices for good items are absolutely nuts.
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It’s exactly like when your parents told you to look both ways before crossing the street. If you were a little kid and ignored your parent you got run over by a car. The D3 AH’s (gold and real money) were a disaster and when they got rid of it the game improved tremendously. An AH would effect “everyone” for the worst. People who played D3 have tried to warn you but none of you will listen.
Nobody who is arguing for an AH is addressing the reasons why they failed in D3. Nobody… Blizzard will “never” bring back an AH unless those reasons are resolved but none of you are talking about how that can be done.
Facts: Both the RMAH and the Gold AH were flooded with duplicated (counterfeit) gear and gold. Blizzard was forced to reduce the drop rates of good gear and gold to compensate so the only way to get gear was on the AH. Prices was so high you either had to buy the gear with real money or buy gold with real money.
Blizzard does not want to repeat those mistakes. It doesn’t matter what people who want to trade think…
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hahaha and this one who speaks for the company. And if I tell you that they are working on an auction system how would you take it would you leave the game ? xD.
Blizzard will put the auction sooner or later that is more than clear.
Go ask for an offline game mode if you are so affected by a trade with auction system.
Mother mia the examples you give in each post I don’t know if you take them seriously or if you have a problem.
You dont have to use AH if you dont like it. Why does it bother you if you are not interested?) 
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No thanks we had an auction house in d3 and it was a disaster.
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How to tell someone you didnt play D3 Vanilla without telling them you didnt play D3 Vanilla
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I was against this in the past but Im on board now.
Items bind would solve alot.
99% items are tradable yet we rely on trash 3rd party websites with 90% fake sellers, scammers, ect. Automated AH would solve much of the terrible trade experience.
I cover it here.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/the-case-in-favor-of-a-s4-auction-house
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You could still kill demons while others enjoy the trade side of the game. One does not preclude the other.
It really does. If you were around of D3 you couldnt progress in inferno unless you played trade sim 80% of the time, or pulled out your credit card. Id prefer not to go back to that.
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As someone who played D3 SFF when it came out, I can confirm this. I got hard stuck at the beginning of Inferno difficulty. (I don’t think I could get past Cathedral 1.) I’d log in and farm for a bit in Act 4 Hell and come out of it with no progress. Eventually, I just gave up entirely and moved on.
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Yeah A3 was a brick wall without playing trade sim. It was aweful. I spent more time trading then actually playing the game to get the needed gear to beat inferno.
If they add a AH it will be the same thing because they will force you to engage with it to progress.
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i am a little tired of people mention D3, without ever mentioning how different loot drop rate and itemization was.
D3 at launch had a decent amount of drops, and the itemization was absolute trash. The hope of getting a good item was basically 0.
This is NOT THE CASE HERE. You can get a decent item, maybe not 3GA, but a pretty decent item easily on your own. You will have zero issue clearing majority of the content here. IT WAS NOT THE CASE IN D3.
people were hard stuck at inferno pre nerf due to garbage itemization, so they have to play the AH game, it is different right now.
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Year + away to any type of in game system. Devs did a total 180 on even allowing trading. Cant even imagine how they code an AH like stash tab when they already have issues with simple tabs.
we had an auction house and it failed…
also blizz made me change my name from StormyDaniel to MelaniaTrump so they dont know anything