Path of Exile's richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore 'more than 1,500 items, some of which can't ever be recreated': 'This is the worst day of my life'

Path of Exile’s richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore ‘more than 1,500 items, some of which can’t ever be recreated’: ‘This is the worst day of my life’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these World of Warcraft World of Warcraft players go back to work on a year-old mystery after one of them accidentally unlocks the 10th orb in a puzzle hidden in the new Midnight expansion World of Warcraft Infamous World of Warcraft guild exploits its way to a world first in new Midnight raid until Blizzard says its instant 300 million damage doesn’t count World of Warcraft Pro World of Warcraft player disconnects mid-fight because he forgot to renew his subscription before Midnight’s world first race: ‘I actually bought a WoW token, I forgot to use it’ RPG Diablo 4 game director believes it’s ‘normal’ for most action RPGs to undergo major reworks: ‘Friction points that we could never imagine suddenly rear their heads over the course of 10,000 hours’ MMO The best MMOs on PC Action Crimson Desert players demand bear domestication Gaming Industry Lost Ark fans fear the worst as Amazon lays off more employees ‘as part of broader organizational decisions’ World of Warcraft Blizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes World of Warcraft A 9,999,999 gold painting in World of Warcraft: Midnight sent secret finders on a hunt for the ultimate discount and one thrifty player finally figured it out FPS Highguard’s failure is emblematic of something that has tormented videogame investors for years now: past live service hits do not equal future live service hits Battle Royale The day after Epic enables microtransactions in Fortnite islands, one of the most popular games on the platform rolls out a $37 ‘gift pack’ and in-game gambling MMO Still humming with life 21 years later, Konami’s Master of Epic is a wonderful time capsule of the experimental early MMORPG era VR Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod disappears after mod maker decides he’d rather take it down than make it free RPG Blizzard says ‘There’s actually millions of people that still play Diablo 3’ and those players have the right idea Third Person Shooter ‘There’s no way that’s real’: Marvel Rivals devs send streamer Kingsman free units after he got wrongfully kicked out of a $40,000 Marvel Rivals tournament PopularSpring SaleClipsCrimson DesertMarathonBest PC gearQuizzes Games RPG Path of Exile Path of Exile’s richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore ‘more than 1,500 items, some of which can’t ever be recreated’: ‘This is the worst day of my life’ News By Tyler Colp published 27 March 2026 The Forbidden Trove’s days as a hub for Path of Exile trading may be coming to an end. 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Alongside the monster smashing and loot collecting is a whole item economy that drives players to grind for hours, not for upgrades, but for the cash to buy the upgrades from other people.Until a recent update that made player trading easier, many players relied on a popular Discord server for buying and selling items or other services. That server, known as The Forbidden Trove (TFT), continues to be the place you go for the game’s rarest and most valuable items. But its leader, Jenebu, recently had his PoE account banned, dredging up old rumors of illicit real-money trading (RMT), and leaving the server’s future uncertain.Jenebu’s PoE account isn’t your typical PoE account. Many of the rarest items in the game lived in his stash because of something the community refers to as a “mirror service.” Basically, players handed their best items to Jenebu so other players could duplicate them using an extremely rare crafting item called the Mirror of Kalandra.Article continues below You may like Path of Exile’s new Mirage league might be the best chance you’ll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game Path of Exile’s next update might prevent your cursor from killing you, and it has a bunch of QoL changes that