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Path of Exile: Introducing the Currency Exchange Market (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The "currencies" are all ingame. Because PoE has no actual currency like gold pieces or anything, players trade in consumable items like Chaos Orbs and Chromatic Orbs that augment items with random outcomes. The introduction of a market ingame helps facilitate trades that players were previously using external websites and forums to make.

Even the NPC shops trade for identification scrolls and have "recipes" where you put in ID scrolls to get teleportation scrolls and you can keep trading upwards.

Diablo III wishes it could be PoE.

[โ€“] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's kinda half true. It's certainly GGG's intent, and there's no official way to buy in game currency for real money, but you can absolutely buy it through third party websites. So effectively, you can still sell items for real money, you just risk getting banned.

But yeah, you'd be correct that the currency market doesn't really help facilitate that. It was just already happening.