Rework the market system to allow purchase offer listings and eliminate undercutting

[ForteNightshade]

The issue is how do you define what is "overpriced"? Ask ten people how much the i380 crafted gear should sell for when it released and you'll get at least five different answers. If SE were to set the average, then it could wind up being too low to be worth bothering with.

[Killersai]

The issue is how do you define what is "overpriced"? Ask ten people how much the i380 crafted gear should sell for when it released and you'll get at least five different answers. If SE were to set the average, then it could wind up being too low to be worth bothering with.

literally no one said anything about SE setting an average. the average would be determined by whatever people are selling and buying them for. you completely failed to understand how a system like this would work. the market would still be player driven as is OSRS's.

[NessaWyvern]

The issue is how do you define what is "overpriced"? Ask ten people how much the i380 crafted gear should sell for when it released and you'll get at least five different answers. If SE were to set the average, then it could wind up being too low to be worth bothering with.

And how is this a problem? If its too low to bother with, then people wouldn't bother with it, resulting in less people making it.
Which would lessen supply, and after a while the price will go up until people can be bothered with making it again.

Items are only worth how much someone is willing to pay for it, so averages work well in this regard.

OSRS doesn't work by setting one price and leaving it there, the average price changes based on what people are buying things for.

I feel like people don't know how the market works in general.

[Misurugi]

someone obviously doesn't understand the point of the stock exchange

[Joven]

For one this isn't OSRS, it's Final Fantasy XIV. If the developers had wanted the marketboard to be like other games then they would have made it like those games. I can almost guarantee that if they were to model the MB off of another game's then the forums would be filled with theads complaining about them ripping off those games and not having any original ideas.

As it stands the MB is the least of their concerns since it's been the way it has going on 6 years now.

[Killersai]

For one this isn't OSRS, it's Final Fantasy XIV. If the developers had wanted the marketboard to be like other games then they would have made it like those games. I can almost guarantee that if they were to model the MB off of another game's then the forums would be filled with theads complaining about them ripping off those games and not having any original ideas.

As it stands the MB is the least of their concerns since it's been the way it has going on 6 years now.

this market board is a direct copy paste of wow's auction house. your argument has already failed.

[Kaethra]

I don't see how undercutting is an issue. If you list an item for 300k and I list it for 75k, there's no issue. You're not out 225k. You still have a 300k worth item you can sell. If there isn't enough demand for you to earn 300k, then the item wasn't worth that. Items are worth whatever people are willing to buy them for. That works as intended. I like that. You would need to explain why I should have what I like, to be taken away.

[Killersai]

I don't see how undercutting is an issue. If you list an item for 300k and I list it for 75k, there's no issue. You're not out 225k. You still have a 300k worth item you can sell. If there isn't enough demand for you to earn 300k, then the item wasn't worth that. Items are worth whatever people are willing to buy them for. That works as intended. I like that. You would need to explain why I should have what I like, to be taken away.

i dont think you know what undercutting is

[MarniDawg]

I don't really see a need to rework the market system as it is now. If someone undercuts you just wait for the item to sell or lower your price. It's all up to what the individual wants to do and I personally enjoy that freedom.

[Joven]

My argument isn't invalid because I said that if they wanted it to be like other games then they would have made it like those games. If the MB is a direct copy of WoW's AH then obviously they wanted to be like WoW. Not Runescape or Guild Wars, etc.