Sorry but FFXi economy was bad. Back before I quit(a few months after COP) you grinded mobs to sell stuff for very little gill, in fact there was almost no way to make it outside of crafting. Not to mention crafters became so un godly greedy. oh you want this lvl 10 armor 50k lol. Back then no lvl 10 could even dream of 50k yet people put it up for that. Heck that economy practiclly forced RMT on everyone because of greedy crafters.
Yep. And it's the same here as in any other mmo. The community sets the prices and they set them at astronomical rates. Rates no casual or regular player can or would be willing to afford. Then when they get undercut to hell, they come and complain they can't make any profit. You get undercut because you have no idea how to initialize an item on the market for a real economical value. Look at any new item since 2.1 when it dropped. most everything was right away put up for 1+ mill gil.