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The original was posted on /r/pathofexile by /u/TheBenjisaur on 2024-12-24 11:26:32+00:00.
You genuinely message 20 people to buy an item, and get no invites to any parties, because the item is either sold or they are busy in a single portal boss fight.
Then the trade site tells you you are rated limited for 60 seconds and cannot message anyone else, because you are sending too many messages.
GGG has added so much friction to trade that they now see legitimate trade as misuse of the trade system.
Clearly they must not intend for this number of messages to be sent, but this story has been the case for years, just now done at even grander scale and volume.
There's a natural progression to this, you send 20 messages, then you send 100 messages, and then a system sends 10000 messages, suddenly you have an electronic exchange, or auction house. It's why these things exist elsewhere.
The friction needs to come down with something like a-synchronous trade with player owned market drop boxes, or we need an actual trading system. Or any other solution GGG want to dream up, players might not know the solution, but we know that friction is too high when we're hitting bot protection features!
On another note, if GGG wants to make us feel the trade friction, then their servers need to be ready to feel the friction of me sending 1000 messages to buy a 1 ex unique!