Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Wolfie]

There should be some stability in pricing though. Imagine you go to Wal-Mart one week and buy bananas, cost like a $1. Then during the week sometime, they (hypothetically) run out. Now, the next week they're charging $10 for bananas, and anyone that comes in that didn't buy bananas last week has no frame of reference to how much they used to cost. How is that fair? Price history creates a more stable economy. I'm sure people will point out FFXI RMT manipulation, but honestly, that was only for a handful of items, most of the FFXIV items that will be desired by the player base are likely to be unique/untradable. Overall, price history does more good than bad in the long run.

I understand what you're getting at here, but I'll raise you this counter point. Now keep in mind I'm not saying that price history is bad, but maybe it doesn't really have any point to it.

The value of an item is determined collectively by the players. There is a point where people will simply go "f*** it, the price is too high and I can just farm these on my own or go without". There's also a point where people will go "wow, this item sells for a lot but there's competition, so I better undercut". And they WILL be using other players as their reference here.

To use your example of the people getting screwed with bananas, the people who didn't know they used to cost $1 will simply go "wow, $10 for bananas when the other fruits are $1-3?". And you will also have other stores who see that bananas are now "expensive", but since they're trying to compete, they'll be selling bananas for $8, or $9, or whatever. And eventually the price will go back down and stabilize.

It's more or less how capitalism and competition works. People undercut each other to the point where it's simply no longer profitable to make or sell a particular item, and then the price remains at that level and only fluctuates slightly.

[Spellstar]

...To use your example of the people getting screwed with bananas...

I lol'd XD

[Wolfie]

I lol'd XD

Glad someone picked up on that.