Free Trade Makes ARPGs Boring AF

[XLVI_carpo]

Hey Mike,
I Don’t know how to understand your response.

Because

@EHG_Mike2

We really like the GGG trading system a lot and want that same sort of market to happen. You’re right though, we are trying to avoid gold sellers being a thing. We are also trying to avoid players needing to go to another website or program (e.g. poe.trade) to set up a trade.

→ We want trading with an economy, although with some restrictions ←

Is a bit different than

@Trasochi

With these conclusions in mind, we decided to pivot away from having economy-based trade and cancelled the plans for the Bazaar.

@Trasochi

Trade in ARPGs is a topic that has many passionate people on every side of the conversation. However, we want Last Epoch to be an ARPG that, at its core, is about going out in the world, killing enemies, and finding awesome loot, not one where playing the economy is the key to success. We strongly believe that this approach will make the game both a more enjoyable co-op experience and a more balanced solo experience. With this, we’ll be able to preserve and continue to improve all the great systems we’ve built for Last Epoch in terms of progression and the player experience without having to sacrifice them to accommodate extensive item trading.

→ We think trading and economy has too many downsides and we think LE is a better game without ←

These two messages I get from EHG, although one (yours) might be a more personal stance while the other is an official statement from the company.

For me personally it’s hard to distinguish between the two. Until today both messages were both from EHG and the opposite of each other.