5.0 and the Marketboard sales

[TwistedTea]

So now every person on every server of Crystal who wants to sell anything first has to go to balmung, check the price of every single item, write it down and transfer back, all to match Balmungs price, repeat this every single time you want to update prices. Really not seeing anything wrong with that?

I've addressed this:

Then if our prices keep going up, the prices on other servers will go down and then people will flock to whichever server is the cheapest. This cycle will keep repeating until the disparity between the MBs on the DC are reduced.

So if Balmung becomes expensive, due to visitors inflating the price, some other server will take its place as Crystal's de facto shopping server, until price disparity is reduced to the point, where it doesn't make sense to travel to another server for cheap items.

All this is gonna do is encourage the use of illegal 3rd party programs to keep track of the marketboard because that's gonna be the only way to compete.

Not sure about 3rd party illegal programs but experienced DOH/DOLs already use sites like ffxivmb to keep track of MB prices. On reddit, I've already seen someone set up a website to keep track of prices across servers.

If they wanted to unify the economies they should have started with unifying the marketboards. But of course nothing is ever simple in this game, every new feature has to be added in the most convoluted way.

Don't see how they could have done it overnight without wrecking the value of personal mats and gil wealth of players. By working towards reducing price disparity they are gradually paving the way for a unified MB across the DC.

Didn't they say you can't use the MB on other servers if you are visiting?

Apparently,you'll be able to buy stuff on visited worlds from their MB.

[alimdia]

So if Balmung becomes expensive, due to visitors inflating the price, some other server will take its place as Crystal's de facto shopping server, until price disparity is reduced to the point, where it doesn't make sense to travel to another server for cheap items.

But how do you reduce prices to match Balmung? You have to enter and exit Balmung every time you want to adjust prices, hence my post.

Not sure about 3rd party illegal programs but experienced DOH/DOLs already use sites like ffxivmb to keep track of MB prices. On reddit, I've already seen someone set up a website to keep track of prices across servers.

Those sites use 3rd party forbidden programs to record price data from the client and upload it to the website, how else do you think they are gonna get the numbers? SE refuses to release an official API.

Don't see how they could have done it overnight without wrecking the value of personal mats and gil wealth of players. By working towards reducing price disparity they are gradually paving the way for a unified MB across the DC.

That's not the reason they gave in the stream.

[TwistedTea]

But how do you reduce prices to match Balmung? You have to enter and exit Balmung every time you want to adjust prices, hence my post.

Yes and when another server becomes cheaper,sellers on Balmung have to do the same. This cycle will keep happening until price disparity insignificant across the DC.

Those sites use 3rd party forbidden programs to record price data from the client and upload it to the website, how else do you think they are gonna get the numbers? SE refuses to release an official API.

Fair enough.

That's not the reason they gave in the stream.

What was the reason?