Lack of Auction House and Bad Crafting Will kill this game.

Balance can be addressed and numbers tweaked, no AH and Bad Crafting are design choices.

+1 if you think this are the 2 mayor points holding the game back.

No it wont

-1

agree

I actually prefer not having an actual in-game AH. Having the trade site open on my 2nd monitor is so convenient compared so say, LE, where you have to stop what you are doing GO to the merchants, find the right stall and spend several moments finding the price for something.

All GGG need to do is add a "buy now" button to the trade site.

Edit, oh, and, yes, "crafting" is abysmally bad.

Not sure if it will kill it, but it will definitely restrict it growth.
using external sites for trade when trading is all you can use to progress in late game feels like were playing a bootleg game in 1990s.
And yes, crafting is ridiculously bad.

Crafting should enable players to get 90% of their perfect build. The squeezing the last 10% out should be where trading is needed.
Right now it's the opposite.

Not gonna kill the game, but they do need a rework. Trade site is fine if they dont want to add an AH, but there needs to be an instant-buy function to circumvent all of the shenanigans. Crafting can certainly stand to gain some determinism.

-1 stop asking for an AH, there won't be any because it's worst than having no AH. You think you want an AH, but you don't.

+1 to instant buy, i dont care how

PoE has been killed 13 years now without an auction house.

What do you think will happen to PoE 2?

Simple

Nothing.