Trading in this game is hands down the single worst experience (aside from dota pub games) I’ve ever had. Ssf made me so happy because i literally never had to worry about trading. I want to trade. I like to trade. I didn’t like copy/pasting spam for 4 hours only to get 1 reply.

It’s nothing like that. You can already trade currencies between players. This just means that you can buy someone’s listed offer with one click instead of whispering 100 people hoping someone will respond and trade with you. Players have been asking for a feature like this for a long time and the announcement has been received extremely positively.

Plus, they’re only adding it to the next temporary league (which is like a season). They said the Q&A that the intention is to keep it afterwards but if it for some reason completely fucks up the economy they still have an out.

Did you even watch the video?

Currency in path of exile is a collection of items which can be use on gear and weapons, but also used with in game traders to barter goods. This currency enchange is an automated way to convert say, an item which reconfigures the linked slots on a piece of armor into one which rerolls the modifiers.

You can’t waste real money on this, it’s just a QoL feature to speed up ingame currency conversions between players. Like trading chaos orb for divine orbs in bulk.