Tackling RMT: What creates buyers in the first place?

[GTK0HLK]

I believe most people already blamed the Players.
I for one blame most players on the marketboard, for what I consider, foolish selling practices.
mostly undercutting In singles, rather than in bulk.<I have sold so many stacks of items by selling them in 2-4 stacks at a higher price netting me money off the undercutters. and I only bought their stacks in the first place cause I needed the item to craft something.., whilst lowering other players overall GIL costs to advance>
But that's just my view.[and I probably haven't run into the threads or posts where people are blaming the Devs/SE/CBUIII]

(But I have seen people get mad at the devs for the latest store change, which is reasonable to assume is only temporary, whilst they deal with RMT)

[DixieBellOCE]

The base desire for people to RMT is Laziness.

Has nothing to do with the economy of the game, its a person being too lazy to earn it that they would rather just pay.

[dspguy]

The base desire for people to RMT is Laziness.

Has nothing to do with the economy of the game, its a person being too lazy to earn it that they would rather just pay.

I think that is the concise way to say it. Some RMT buyers make the calculation that it will take, for example, 20 hours to gather/grind/relist items on the MB in order to make some sort of in-game purchase but only 1 hour of real-life work to exchange for gil through RMT. They'd rather do that than spend the time in game. Time is money.

[Nav_Fae]

The notion is that you can make more gil buying it for a single day of real work overtime than the ingame hours spent doing it yourself.

[Bacent]

I for one blame most players on the marketboard, for what I consider, foolish selling practices.

Stuff like that happens IRL. You just don't do enough to actually see it so to you it 'doesn't exist'...


In games it's literally just laziness. People are so accustomed to getting stuff when they want it and just paying extra to get it even sooner.

People undercut because they want to sell fast. I'm one of those people that will undercut everyone because I want my crap to sell fast. I ONLY make money from maps/desynthing basically. I make a lot of money from that. I undercut because 1) It sells faster. 2) I don't care about the item and someone will make better usage of it. 3) I have kind of liked the idea of making some people angry that I undercut by weird amounts from how many people complain about 'omg how dare ppl undercut'

I mean heck. I'd consider you a bit of a foolish player thinking that 'people who undercut are foolish'. People will ALWAYS undercut. If everything was the same exact price, then it's a game's fixed economy (Like in solo games) and there'd be no point really.

There's no set price for anything. It's demand driven economy.

If people didn't have the 'I want it now and I'll pay extra just to get it now' mentality, then we wouldn't have this kind of problem. It's why they say patience is a Virtue. People don't have any patience, unless they're a doctor. Then that's a different issue.