[xaitv]

> I wish we had more open APIs!

Do you mean in Path of Exile or in games in general? Afaik most of the economy stuff in PoE is behind an API that's relatively open(you have to request access, but you pretty much always get it).

The complexity in Path of Exile is less in the economy and more in build creation though. With tools like Path of Building that you can spend almost as many hours in as you're playing the actual game(or you just copy what someone else did like most people).

[solardev]

Well, both! But for POE specifically, there's a lot of stuff they don't want to expose (the UI, damage numbers, MTX info, etc.)

I wanted to build a better catalog for their MTX (because their shop site is pretty terrible) and was explicitly denied API access even though they already have a public API for it that their site uses. Shrug.

Path of building is great, but AFAIK the formulas used for it are from observations and not an API.

[RockRobotRock]

POB uses the player's POESESSID instead of the oAuth API, which GGG has specifically warned against: https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/zmkm9t/how_pob...

[xaitv]

That's true yes. Most of the Path of Building stuff is datamined and/or tested ingame. Interesting that they declined the shop idea, guess they dislike people touching anything to do with their monetization.