Undercut wars on chocobo dyeing fruits is LONG OVERDUE

[Alex_Lenderson]

Booo big business!!

Save me, guv'ment, save me!

It's not fair, he has something I don't, wahh! It's not fair! The 1%! Wahh!



Oh. Occupy dumb street flashbacks, my bad.

Sadly most internet based communities have a built in basis against $$.

[Tsukino]

The problem is FC gardens are mostly controlled by officers and high-ranking members of FCs. That makes it for a shitty supply.

It's corporativism in it's purest form. The few are catering to the few, and lining up their pockets in the process.
It makes me wanna puke.

People need to stop joining pointless mega-companies with 500 members and form smaller ones with friends. Problem solved.

[Raxion]

People need to stop joining pointless mega-companies with 500 members and form smaller ones with friends. Problem solved.

Pretty much this. People still make the mistake of joining an FC based on the member-count, or because of a static. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever to join an FC over a static, unless they require you to. A linkshell suffices, trust me.

[Zumi]

People need to stop joining pointless mega-companies with 500 members and form smaller ones with friends. Problem solved.

Problem will be solved in like a month when personal housing comes out and everyone can have their own garden.

[TheRogueX]

The market board cannot be filled by selfish capitalists who only care about draining as much gil as possible from the rich. THE NEW FEATURE WASN'T MEANT JUST FOR THE 1%

OCCUPY EORZEA!!!

Sadly most internet based communities have a built in basis against $$.

No, they have a built in bias against greed and elitism.

ALSO: All of you claiming this is basic free-market capitalism working as intended? No, no it's not. Some content is arbitrarily difficult to produce and/or arbitrarily limited in production ability/cost by RNG, etc. Plus, money enters this economy from nowhere (gil drops, etc) This is not a true free market.

[Eggnook24]

Damn the man, always trying to bring the Lalafell down.

[Kaethra]

Why would I put up an item for 5,000 when someone will buy it for 125,000? And like others have said, you can join a FC that will let you garden. If you can't find one, then create one. If this is truly a problem and you are not in the solo minority then you should be able to find like minded players to found a FC for it. There are good FCs out there. There are FCs that will let you garden. If you're not in such one, then what FC are you actually in?

You should not have envy of other players simply because they have more gil then you. That is what this is really about. You look on the market board, see the fruits for what you think is an outrageous price. But someone else comes along and buys it without a second thought. If that wasn't happening, the prices would come down. Its not like a select few FC's have a monopoly on fruits. Anyone with a FC can do this, and there is 1 FC for every 4 characters in this game.

But the fact is, someone with more gil now has their chocobo a color they want it to be. Yours is still yellow. That makes you think you didn't get a fair shot. It makes you envious. It makes you jealous, and hence upset. This is when you start with the insults of calling people greedy and extortionists. That couldn't be further from the truth. What is really happening is people are feeling out the market and trying to get compensation for their trouble.

Right now the fruits are new, they are desired, and hence call for some high prices.

When Skyrim came out, it was listed at $60. For me, it wasn't worth that much. For me it was worth $35. So I waited till the Xmas sale 2 months after it was released. At no point in time did I ever call the publisher's of the game greedy. At no point in time did I ever grow envious of friends or strangers who bought it at full price. I was content to wait. Same thing with these fruits.

I don't think they are worth more than 5k gil. I really don't. But I'm not going to fault anyone for spending that much. I'm not going to call the sellers greedy. The market is what it is. It has no soul, it has not sentience, it only is. There's no reason to get emotionally attached to the issue. There's no reason to get upset at others over it. And no one should judge others based on the market.

As for suggestions capping prices on the market board.. what would that accomplish? All that would do is encourage sellers to use another currency and forgo using the market board. You want to see prices get to outrageous levels when you have to purchase things using rare dungeon drops as currency? Well limiting the market is one way to do it.

[Krindor]

What people are currently doing is price skimming which is something that we come by a lot in real life as well, if you can earn something at a higher price why sell it for less?

[KarmaCha]

Everyone is not entitled to every new feature in this game.

Wait a week or two when the market crashes or start working for the gil to buy it now. Plain and simple.

[Exstal]

if you can earn something at a higher price why sell it for less?

Lacking brain cells is a good reason, no?