I think GGG might be missing out on a big opportunity by not rolling out public stashes to all players (not a p2w complaint)

To be completely honest, I am disappointed that not all players will have access to at least one public stash. Not so much because of p2w concerns, but because of what it does to 3rd party developers.

Before the introduction, we had two indexers, poe.trade and exiletools.net, but the Exiletools indexer was at a disadvantage because poe.trade circumvented forum post bumps with Acquisition, so Exiletools could never be as up to date as poe.trade.

With the introduction of the API, exiletools.net is dropping support for forum crawling completely, which is understandable since crawlers are archaic and maintaining one is a pain in the ass. However, that means we now only have one indexer who has all of the items, poe.trade. And even if someone created a new indexer, it would be at the same disadvantage Exiletools was at before.

If you wanted to develop a 3rd party trading tool now, you have a few choices now which are all not very satisfying:

* develop directly on GGGs API; you won't have all available items in your tool * develop using the Exiletools API; still won't have all available items in your tool * scrape poe.trade (horrible solution and not fair to xyz. Although he _is_ the one that monopolized scraping in the first place. I don't think that was even his intention, but it's what happened)

If GGG had rolled out public stash tabs to ALL players, we wouldn't have these issues. Anyone with decent programming knowledge could develop trading tools that work for all available items, with minimal development overhead to get the data. I am fairly disappointed that GGG apparently didn't recognize that, especially given how vital 3rd party tools have historically been for Path of Exile.

**The new trade API could have fostered a much more active community of 3rd party developers, and while it still helps, it's always accompanied by the bad aftertaste that your tool won't be able to reach all players if you use it.**

TL;DR: GGGs decision to roll out public stashes only to players with premium stash tabs is seriously hampering the development of 3rd party trading tools which could make playing PoE even more enjoyable.

Edit: Just in case you're reading this as an attack on XYZ, it's not supposed to be. He's awesome, he's done great work for the community and is certainly not someone to blame for any of this. That doesn't change my point though, forum scraping should be phased out, and without locking anyone out of trade.