I'm noticing a large amount of people attacking LE after the announcement that there would be no trading. Websites like D2jps and their userbase are are going apesh*t saying they wasted their money on buying the game only for it to turn into another diablo 3 just because there is no trading. That's just one example.
If you can buy power with money, third party or not, then it is horrible game design. These free traders act like there is nothing wrong with trading when it brings a slew of problems to the game. Like P2W, scamming, massive botting among other reasons. It also breaks the core gameplay loop of killing monsters for power. Free traders never counter argue with anything meaningful and they bully you for disagreeing with them.
Blizzard tried making trade work in D3. It was horrible which is why it was removed when the xpac hit, grim dawn has no focus on trading and is a great game. D4 will have almost no trading and won't be well over half your power like it is in PoE or D2. It will be a small amount of your power, if any.
Every upcoming and modern ARPG has no focus on trading. Developers know how much it breaks the ARPG experience and makes it pointless to farm for items, when you can just work an extra day for cash and buy all the BIS items.
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