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).
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.
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.
As in they have a bunch of endpoints that are perfectly usable but they don't want you using it for some reason. It spawned a small ecosystem of third party docs and wrappers on poedb and github.
I can't tell if GGG just don't have the resources to support more APIs or if they are worried about increasing access for other business reasons, but they do threaten an account ban for unauthorized use of their public APIs. It's too bad, as someone who's both spent a lot of money with them and wanted to spend more but could never find the right items because their official shop is so bad. Oh well.
As a casual PoE player I hope sooner or later we will get an LLM that can make builds for me. https://poeplanner.com/ is still an absolute mindfuck. But it would be cool to have an LLM that does like "make me an INT/STR build with 2-handed weapon and aoe skills"
That would be great! The build guides are helpful, but limiting in that they are often super strict in what they need to be functional, and end game focused.
Sometimes I just want to have a good time trying out a new build, even if it never makes it past early mapping, but the game just makes that so punishingly difficult.
Having a build advisor (maybe even built into the game somehow?) would be awesome. But I think GGG purposefully tries to keep it obscure and complex, maybe to increase longevity? Heck, it worked for me... got bored of Diablo 4 after a week because it was so basic.
