Quote Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba View Post
One of the things I disliked about FFXI is this blind bidding system, especially on items without much history.

If you're looking for the folks that were undercutting, you also spent more time tryingto go through the interface looking for the item. Or the reverse, where the average price is 5000, but people start marking up at 6000 and you start going up in increments to find that price.

In regards to the current situation, at level 50, I think crafters probably won't be able to interest players in a lot of goods.

With equipment rewarded from quests, job quest armor sufficing until folks can start running dungeons for Allaghan tomestones and getting those iLevel 60 gear and purchasing iLevel 70 or 90 gear with the tomestones, it leaves little appeal for crafted items from strangers.
The interface can be fixed, and for the tomestone items, that really has no here or there on the subject directly.

Quote Originally Posted by bwalker36 View Post
Yeah, I was not a fan of blind bidding and I doubt it would really stop undercutters anway. They can still put it for 1g and I can just start really low and hope i get lucky. It's what I did in XI too.

Personally I like the guildwars 2 system the best. Its a standard AH interface but you can put in buy/sell orders. You can see the current buy/sell orders and decide what you want to pay/sell at.
It would stop undercutters, sure there may be a few people who put it up at 1g, but that wouldn't be happening often, and it stopped undercutting in FFXI for over 6 years. Its a system that's been proven to work extremely efficiently.