Destroying Server Economies

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

That isn't called "destroying economies" it's called bringing them into parity.

You see, before, some servers had absolutely ridiculous prices on things. Now this will force those people who charge ridiculous amounts to lower their prices to compete.

And really, that's the thing. They're bringing competition to the economies, which is actually very healthy for the economies, not destructive.

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I'd agree more with this if not for the fact that most server economies are heavily influenced by bot farmers who oft sell at price points so low as to scarcely be profitable for legitimate players to imitate.

These guys oft exist strictly to craft/gather and aren't actually putting any time or effort into the process so all they care about is pushing sales as quickly as possible.

As much as I hate to let them have their way, there really isn't any point to trying to sell stuff on the MB if I can make just as much if not more gil for the time spent through more entertaining activities like treasure maps and SE continues to be absolutely useless when it comes to banning them, so I think the economy is permanently screwed at this point.

I really hate that they let people buy from other MBs. I am watching as my server’s market is being pillaged in real time, while they take the items they got for cheap on my server and sell it for ludicrously higher prices on theirs.

Meanwhile, the prices are skyrocketing on my server because everyone is coming here to buy things to resell on their own. This was not a good idea.

Free market, it may not give you the best price if you don’t hop but it save you time and give you convince.
More competitions is always welcome for consumer

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Originally Posted by Pixelburst

I like to believe that Square Enix has destroyed individual server economies now. i'm an omnicrafter on Diabolos, and no one is going to buy things for the prices crafters have set here because you can get it cheaper on Balmung. It's a HUGE slap to the face. This is the ONLY thing I'm upset about with the update, otherwise the world visiting system is great.

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Oh no, people won't be able to demand extra high prices because they can't control the market anymore!

After the initial jump of high prices this morning things are already dropping back to reasonable on many things, it won’t take long for the prices to stabilize.

If you’re worried about balmung, maybe you were charging too much to begin with.

What I'd be worried about is players going to specific servers to buy something. It would make more sense to go to a highly populated server because you would usually have a lot more choice and competitive prices than on a low population server. If this happens this could mean that even if your stuff is the cheapest, many players won't ever see it because your home server has a low population.

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Originally Posted by Ariel_Valmont

After the initial jump of high prices this morning things are already dropping back to reasonable on many things, it won’t take long for the prices to stabilize.

If you’re worried about balmung, maybe you were charging too much to begin with.

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You are charging too much if no one buys your stuff. Every server had its own economy and it worked for the whole time. Now every server gets the prices of the biggest servers and more people get easy access to the bot farmed stuff on these servers.

if you can use Mb with it can you buy houses with vist?

People buy stuff off the market boards for marked up prices without even checking if they can buy it cheap from NPCs; I doubt they're going to go through the effort of checking each server to shop.

This was a wonderful experience. I havn't had this much fun since the last MSQ release.