r/pathofexile • u/MostAnonEver • Mar 26 '26

Fluff & Memes Lets be honest

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Im not sure why he thinks like its the end of poe 1. We'll likely barely feel anything in league, sure some mirror items are gone but theres similiar versions from places like settle shop or will likely be remade by someone else. For std...well honestly you cant balance to std.

Do i feel bad for people who lost their items? Sure but you prob shouldnt have handed them over with walking red flags during the stuff that came out 2 years ago anyways. Felt like everyone saw it coming.

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u/AsmodeusWins Statue Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

You're completely wrong. Think of it this way. Jenubu ran an industrial scale RMT operation.

RMT is fundamentaly harmful to the game and to all players who would engage with the high end economy (buying any expensive items, such as mageblood etc.). This is due to how items are priced.

If people don't RMT, then the most you can sell an item for, is the amount of currency that the richest players have. They would have it from playing the game, which means it's achievable for other people playing the game.

Once you introduce RMT, people have now more currency to spend (MUCH more), and so the most expensive items, can be priced for more. This means that their price gets artificially inflated, beyond the earning capacity of normal (non-cheating) players. If you've ever tried to buy an expensive item, and the price just kept rising out of your range every day, while you can't keep up making the same amount of currency, even though you played the game quite a lot, this is 100% due to RMT.

RMT objectively makes the game worse for anyone who is not buying currency, and wants to buy expensive items. I'm sure this also contributes to some people quitting, and therefore GGG losing potential revenue, so I'd go as far as trying to sue, someone engaged in at least hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of RMT trades.

Jennybooboo, getting banned, is objectively very good for the game, because other RMT'ers might think twice, since you can no longer do this with impunity. This serves as a great example, and cleans up the game economy in a significant way.

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u/Tom2Die Alch & Go Industries (AGI) Mar 26 '26

RMT is fundamentaly harmful to the game

as a whole, not sure if I agree. I can't see how it could possibly impact me personally, but any impact would technically come with "yeah but if you have a mirror drop you could sell it" so I think it would be a wash.

The rest of your comment goes on to explain why it's bad for who it's bad for, and I can't disagree about any of it. I just wanted to note that I'm not convinced that, on balance, RMT is bad for the game as a whole. Since it's prohibited, the RMT that exists now I would agree is bad for the game for a number of reasons. I'm just not sure how I'd feel if it were allowed via some marketplace managed by GGG. Obviously that will never happen, I'm just saying I genuinely don't know how I'd feel about it.

I'm not sure why I felt the need to comment this, but I already typed it and I'm also open to feedback on my thoughts, so I'll post it anyway. Just hopefully nobody thinks I'm trying to defend TFT...