Obviously Blizzard can’t just copy it outright but we more or less need the same kind of thing;
An in-game auction house to list and sell items that taxes gold slightly and also making gold account bound i.e. untradeable.
No more annoying trade chat spam, or people trying to scam during player trades. The duping problem still has to be resolved of course, but this would go a long ways towards fixing the economy and it’s hardly a new idea…
It’s been in games for 20+ years, FFXI was my first experience with this kind of system.
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The main issue is to solve the replication problem. If the replication problem is not resolved, opening an auction house will only result in permanent closure of transactions, just like Diablo III did when the auction house was closed due to replication. Although I think these vulnerabilities can never be handled properly
This topic has been mentioned since they opened up trading to include everything but Mythic Uniques. However Blizzards stance hasn’t changed, and they even mentioned recently they do not want an auction house within the game.
So regardless of all the posts advocating for one, this won’t be changing anytime soon. Maybe when management changes for the umpteenth time 5 years down the line we might see one. Good luck and keep on keeping on.
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Doubtful for D4. Maybe for D5. See ya in 2044.
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which is stupid when they know the 3rd party ones are so popular (and at times required for osme ppl)
POE had a league (season w/ khalandra iirc) where GGG redid entire enemy modifier system to where modifiers were how you could tell if it will drop good loot or not…and this was HOW you got loot basically…loot outside them was so bad people literally used 3rd party service to kill specific modifier mobs and give half loot to one killing it jhust becasue it was worth it even if they take 5min to find someone to do it.
When a 3rd party service is requried to fix a core aspect of game (loot) then the system is flawed and needs changed to never need that 3rd party service as it shows you (game devs) failed in execution.
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If it taxes gold and making gold untradeable what would you actually use to trade? Bossmats? runes?
There is nothing in D4 that has consistent global value. Both boss mats and runes is something you might need for a period but also something you wont need anymore at some point making them worthless.
Gear and Runes.
It’s amazing how RMT gets crippled when you can’t actually sell gold.
GGG over here inventing a functional nuclear fusion reactor whilst Blizzard is still struggling to make fire with flint and tinder.
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The biggest thing the game needs is some sort of streamlined way to trade for sure. An auction house would be fine. A trade tab probably even better. A LE style bazaar, even.
I also think it needs an automated matchmaking system for boss farming that automatically uses everybody mats. Or just some way to revamp that boss farming system, which is extremely tedious to try and do efficiently with other people. There’s too much FOMO in doing it solo to be okay. It’s all got to be reworked.
If they do those two things, D4 will start to verge on greatness.
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Yup, mandatory multiplayer needed to die over a year ago. Raids need to be soloable (this isn’t an MMO). Boss farming needs to only drop loot for the player who summoned the boss. There needs to be an official Blizzard-facilitated trade site at the very least or as you said, a system similar to LE’s Merchant’s Guild. The economy also needs to be sacrosanct. There should never be a new season until the economics issues are stamped out entirely. GGG solved this problem in Path of Exile. Why can’t Blizzard?
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Opening up trading has proven by now a huge mistake and error by Bliz as they seem helpless to dupes and exploits. If you cant enforce a fair system then release SSF mode with trading off and a drop boost or go back to old D3 trade system. What we have now is an abomination and corruption of everything.
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I am once again citing this nugget of wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiW-_2OZzbE
Meanwhile, does D4 still have duping issues, even though this league is nearly 2 months old? Even if it didn’t the damage was already done in October.
as long as D4 has problems with duping, trading will never be good.
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Just create a currency, which you start with 5, allowing 5 purchases as you buy and sell, you earn more. Max and minimum. Items purchased linked to the account (I’ve seen monopoly items). There are several ways to trade more fairly.
PoE2 is going to have an instant buy/sell platform similar to Auction House added to the game in the future, so they will have that added to the current existing Exchange and Trading mechanism
Just a heads up to players from D3 D4 who were strongly against AH
But PoE also has SSF mode so those who are not keen on AH type system can choose to play in SSF game instead
Duping/Exploits is a cancer to any games whether with or without trading and need to be address seriously
It’s meaningless to discuss this before solving the replication problem first