Market Board Tax Changes

[Hasrat]

You know players are spoiled when they balk at such a small gil sink. There's not that many in the game to begin with.

[Missbone]

The thing i dont like about this new MB stuff is that it feels again punishing players for something that clearly is the devs fault because they didn't thought enough ahead. Yea Limsa is without a doubt the best spot for the mentioned reasons. It allows world travel and the mb and retainer is just a jump from the aetheryte away. But it was clearly the wrong decision because it ruins a lot of other features.

For example if someone had put up some very expensive items in less frequent zones like Uldah or Kugane it was still worth a visit, now this zones will get even fewer players because it dont matter anymore. Players will also still favorite Limsa because of the mb close to the aethrite and world travel. It would have been a far better solution for our lazy devs if they would also enable world travel via Kugane and the Crystarium. This way the two citys would get more visitors again and would provide a good alternative to Limsa because there mb can also be reached real fast without changing how the whole system works.

This was clearly a very lame move. I do not have a issue with paying the taxes but i feel relay sorry for players that do not have so much money and used to travel to other city's to save some.

[MaiSuu]

You know players are spoiled when they balk at such a small gil sink. There's not that many in the game to begin with.

It's not that I'm 'spoiled' or other players are 'spoiled', in my case it's more of, I'm POOR, and saving money/making it is not really easy for me and many others i meet. Sure sometimes the markets great and we can make a few, but then it goes back down again.

Point is, this whole jumping cities was saving a few pennies here and there and that HELPED. ALOT. Believe it or not. So no its not being 'spoiled' in my case, it's just being POOR.

-snipping-

This was clearly a very lame move. I do not have a issue with paying the taxes but i feel relay sorry for players that do not have so much money and used to travel to other city's to save some.

This I agree with as I fall in this category very much so!

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I hope i used the Quote tool correctly as it is my first time using such //cry

[Nedkel]

The only people its going to affect are those who actively are buying stuff from market, a newbies who has just started the game.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Now I can't RP as a corrupt politician that would teleport to cities to evade taxes anymore

[Halivel]

Now I can't RP as a corrupt politician that would teleport to cities to evade taxes anymore

Well why, now you can RP as a corrupt politican who makes his purchases on Black Market (i.e. direct transactions instead of using certified sellers services)

[Shurrikhan]

Ehh, I like no longer being obliged to teleport to a different city just to get the discounts on crafted 480 gear.

[Michiko]

the small gil sink is about 5% of your purchase price. if my math adds up. I bought an item for 2mil yesterday, I had to pay 100k gil on top of the item. I was rather put off myself. Can I afford it? Clearly.

Does it surprise me no..seeing how much abuse world visits have done to market boards. Just seems another attempt by the dev team to fix the problem they created by punishing everyone instead of just putting a stop to world visitors liquidating complete market boards to resell elsewhere.

[LalaRu]

Look at the bright side: you no longer put your retainer on the "wrong" city!

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Look at the bright side: you no longer put your retainer on the "wrong" city!

That's not what changed with this tax change. The change was buying things from the marketboard, not selling them. Ishgard markets on Cactuar is still 2% reduced.