Rejuvenating the Market

[Dzian]

If there's a problem its usually the fact that nothing worthwhile is really sellable outside of say a glamour value..

the levelling experience is so ridiculously fast and so ridiculously easy that gear is a joke.. the 10s gear will carry you all the way.

you get 50. get some 130 augmented iron works it'll carry you all the way to 60 no problem at all.
get to 60 get some 170 shire gear. and it'll carry you all the way to 70 again no problems at all.
hit 70, get some scaeven? 400 gear and it'll carry you all the way to 80 no problem at all.
80. yup you guessed it cryptbunker 530 and your golden all the way to 90..

if you get a few upgrades from dungeons along the way cool but if you dont its never a problem..

its even more evident early in an expansion because the markets get flooded with all the stuff players get as quest rewards. hq gear but inferior to the previous tome gear so just sell it..

and then at current cap. crafted gear can often be perceived as over priced. especially given the way progression in the game works. dumping 6-8 million on kitting a job out in i610 when you know you'll be throwing it away in a couple of weeks as you replace it with tome or raid gear...

was and to some extent still is the case with materia as well. very few people ever bothered to meld gear instead theyd just sell the materia because melding was basically throwing money away.. because youd ultimately throw the gear away..

and also theres the numerous systems that throw stuff at you like retainer ventures. those sacks you mentioned from deep dungeons containing loots. absolutely flooding the supply of items and destroying there value which is not only bad for the economy but bad for the content itself. becasue all it does it make players ignore them entirely. and creates the mentality of unlock the runic portal and go go go... not worth clearing out those rooms to search for loot sacks.

all comes down to accessibility.