Past week, they removed "appear online in all leagues", which to me is in effect a full removal of std.

People all think "playing std" is being there farming. But for many of us, it was always long term goals and strategies right. Just investing in certain things with long term prospect for profit.

So in a way, removing this function is like saying: All leagues are void leagues. Can't even play SSF and have your trade league stuff listed in tabs. Why are quad tabs even there now if it's just infinite storage space. Everyone of us who got a dozen or more quad tabs, that was often to have sale space on std.

It's all to save server cost. We use to be able to sell from remove-only tabs. Now you cannot even sell from your tabs if you are not online in that league. Merchant tabs came with a trade off, all your other tabs are for nothing but storage now.

It turn the game into a gold farm game... and all currencies are just gold in a way. I'm annoyed and I know I'm a minority, but they should just cancel everything they did. Make it what the game was all about... the original poe was designed to not have gold. It was the big innovation. Once you introduce gold, it's more central than everything else, especially when in such low supply. A chaos orb is now just a way to buy gold. It's convertible to gold. You hope with this gold you can make more chaos orbs to buy more gold to get more chaos orbs. This logic escape low stake players who never think of making "tons of mirrors". But when you see the big picture. The game is just gold.

I feel they need to remove gold and let us use all our tabs. Merchant tabs... tax should be paid with alts and chaos and divines. 100 gold is 1 transmute, 1000 gold is 1 alt, 10,000 gold is 1 chaos. 100,000 gold is a 1 divine tax. That just remove key currencies from the economy, not create the top tier currency being just gold. It also fix the mess they created preventing you from buying leveling items for 3500 gold when you are in act 3 and that is more gold than you have dropped so far.

Everyone loves it, so it won't change, but it was a downgrade in the end. Makes the game simpler and dumber. You just need gold to make any currency you want. I'd give 10 mirrors for infinite gold, because it's obvious you can make 10 mirrors quickly if you have the gold for it. That's why I say gold is the main currency... and that is a mistake.

Idk but I've been getting messaged for alt art stuff this entire league. I might take it more seriously if it weren't the lowest of lowballs, but not one person has made a serious offer in over a decade for any of my random race junk.