Destroying Server Economies

[Jeeqbit]

I like to believe that Square Enix has destroyed individual server economies now. i'm an omnicrafter on Diabolos, and no one is going to buy things for the prices crafters have set here because you can get it cheaper on Balmung. It's a HUGE slap to the face. This is the ONLY thing I'm upset about with the update, otherwise the world visiting system is great.

They specifically said they want it to balance out. Balmung's prices will rise as a result of the higher demand, and your prices will reduce due to the weakened demand, ultimately balancing out. Of course, this relies on if people can be bothered to use the visit system much.

[Rosentretter]

Not even a whole day has passed after this feature being implemented and you're already complaining.

Oh.
My.
God.

Really?

[Hugowulf]

Balmung, mall of eorzea

[Enla]

Balmung, mall of eorzea

Only thing we're missing is a run down food court.

[Ilan]

How dare people be allowed to buy items for affordable prices...

How dare people to complain about prices if they are too lazy to craft that stuff themselfs?

I can understand the people that take advantage of lower prices but i can also understand that people are angry that their prices are ruined now because they also had to pay more to gear up their crafters.

[Coatl]

Wait a minute, this actually brings to mind some bigger problems. Since people will be flocking to the big market servers like balmung for lower prices, doesn't that make it harder for those on smaller servers to now sell their goods? Everyone will be hopping to the big servers to buy their stuff there, meanwhile the crafters on the smaller servers are sorta SOL and just have to hope and pray someone randomly sees their item on their smaller server and buys it.

That's not exactly fair, and sort of sets a bad precedent for the future economy of ffxiv.

[Kaedan]

Wait a minute, this actually brings to mind some bigger problems. Since people will be flocking to the big market servers like balmung for lower prices, doesn't that make it harder for those on smaller servers to now sell their goods? Everyone will be hopping to the big servers to buy their stuff there, meanwhile the crafters on the smaller servers are sorta SOL and just have to hope and pray someone randomly sees their item on their smaller server and buys it.

That's not exactly fair, and sort of sets a bad precedent for the future economy of ffxiv.

Not if they lower their prices to match (or in some cases, they can raise their prices to match, or undercut)

People won't need to spend the time server visiting if they can get the same prices on their home server.

[Derio]

This is if people can even get into Balmung with the world visit system.

Prices will normalize but not overnight. I suspect prices to be rather wonky until at least 5.1 or 5.2 release

[Enla]

Wait a minute, this actually brings to mind some bigger problems. Since people will be flocking to the big market servers like balmung for lower prices, doesn't that make it harder for those on smaller servers to now sell their goods? Everyone will be hopping to the big servers to buy their stuff there, meanwhile the crafters on the smaller servers are sorta SOL and just have to hope and pray someone randomly sees their item on their smaller server and buys it.

That's not exactly fair, and sort of sets a bad precedent for the future economy of ffxiv.

You're forgetting one thing. Most people are lazy.

I make most of my gil, for example, reselling vendor items here on Balmung. You would not believe how much money I can make because someone cannot be bothered to look up which vendor has the item and then port to their location. Not even SE adding the vendor price to item descriptions has stopped this and any attempts within the wider community to get people to save gil and use the vendors always loses traction within a few months. So honestly speaking I can't see this becoming a huge issue in the long term. Yes, some people will definitely seek out the cheapest server while the larger data center economy equalizes. But the average player? I can see them doing it for a week out of curiosity then inevitably buying something from their home marketboard because it's quicker before that once again becomes the norm.

Also even if this does happen, which again I very much doubt, it just means servers will need to adapt and for a standard pricing scale to be set across all the servers on a data center. I'd give it a few months before most servers have near identical market boards for most of the easily moved items.

[Tint]

Not if they lower their prices to match (or in some cases, they can raise their prices to match, or undercut)

People won't need to spend the time server visiting if they can get the same prices on their home server.

But what when people hop onto the "Mall"-Server before they even started looking in their home world? Why looking on your own market board when you know you can get everything you need for a cheap price on the other server?