Nobody goes, "hmm, I wanna buy this item instead of grinding for it to drop the hard way but I wont because trading is inconvenient", instead its just, "boy, I wish I could buy this thing that I see here is clearly up for sale but this person wont respond because theyre too busy actually playing the game to respond to my whisper", or "alright, I want this horrible abrasive trading experience to be over asap, so leme just hit whisper on 20 ppl at once and ignore 9 of the 10 who didn't ignore me first" Furthermore, Harvest being a bad idea doesn't say anything about an auction house system or the fact that it isn't just a good idea, but a necessary feature that every other game on the planet has for a reason. Trading IS the meta, it always has been and it always will be and making trading stupid and inconvenient isn't going to convince players to trade less, all it does it make for a more aggravating and less fun experience and encourages people to spend half the league camping out in their hideout to make sales instead of actually playing the game. The fact of the matter is that trading is a central part of gameplay if you arent SSF, period. Bots aren't stopped by trading being inconvenient. Price fixing isn't stopped by trading being inconvenient. No other games with an auction house experience any of the issues any of you describe any more then PoE does.
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