So much for not releasing information affecting market boards early...
A couple patches ago SE promised that they would no longer release information about crafting/recipes/etc that would cause price gouging on the market board ahead of time....
Yet, the information that was released in the 3.1 notes, regarding the increase to availability of items from favor trade ins, has lead to the prices of land/leaf/sea bourne aether sands to skyrocket from around 20-40k each up to 170-230k each.. for NQ.... in one day
Why was this information released early? By the time I was even aware the preliminary notes were out it was already too late and the market board had been cleaned out
In agreement with mayoyama
The problem isn't whether or not someone is going to take advantage or not, the issue is that SE have gone and done something which blatantly goes against a promise that they made at an eariler date. Yes people will take advantage of information, it is justified that they do so, but only if they do so AFTER the patch releases. releasing it any earlier it puts people into awkward situations and sends the market board into economical flux before it needs to be.