Path of Exile players having comfortable access von vkmoons Blog

 Part of that arose from necessity - its wiki, market tools, build crafting programs, all exist on some level because PoE is deliberately built to obfuscate information which it doesn’t want its players having comfortable access to, which at the outset of the POE Items Path of Exile's life became a draw for the player base.

 Having to discover this information became a foundation for community discussion and tool creation, theorycrafting and POE Trade much more.

Trading was risky, clunky, and required an avid forum thread should you wanted to sell multiple item smoothly; movement was effectively capped by itemization limitations.