Cost of Server Transfers

[DoctorPepper]

I'm aware and grateful for the free week of transfers. Can you explain to me how it helps in any way aside from providing SE with additional income?

[Sinth]

I'm aware and grateful for the free week of transfers. Can you explain to me how it helps in any way aside from providing SE with additional income?

It prevents the practice of buying cheap in one market and selling high in another. So, for instance, philo items are selling for 50k on Lamia, but only 25k on Leviathan. Someone on Leviathan can buy 500k worth of philo mats, transfer to Lamia, double their money and transfer back.

Transfer costs prevent world-market exploitation.

[DoctorPepper]

It prevents the practice of buying cheap in one market and selling high in another. So, for instance, philo items are selling for 50k on Lamia, but only 25k on Leviathan. Someone on Leviathan can buy 500k worth of philo mats, transfer to Lamia, double their money and transfer back.

Transfer costs prevent world-market exploitation.

I can understand this to a degree but a lockout timer for transferring again would negate this in most cases unless somebody is a completely solo player that wants to transfer every other month and does not have any friends they want to play with. Also, as mentioned before there is a 1 million gil cap on transferring gil so the impact on market exploitation would be minimal at best, even at 25k per tomb item you would not even be able to make more than 4 2 star items and then would have to sit on them for over a month and pray that prices don't get adjusted on your old server in order to make it actually worthwhile.

[Sinth]

I can understand this to a degree but a lockout timer for transferring again would negate this in most cases unless somebody is a completely solo player that wants to transfer every other month and does not have any friends they want to play with. Also, as mentioned before there is a 1 million gil cap on transferring gil so the impact on market exploitation would be minimal at best, even at 25k per tomb item you would not even be able to make more than 4 2 star items and then would have to sit on them for over a month and pray that prices don't get adjusted on your old server in order to make it actually worthwhile.

Or you could make transfers cost $25 and never see any exploitation as opposed to accepting a limited amount of exploitation.

Also, it costs money to create a transfer service, so, why not charge for it?

[Welsper59]

I'm used to the WoW transfer fee of $25, so this being less is good to me.

There are numerous reasons why a fee is there, and usually at one that people feel is "too expensive"... despite the fact they're playing a p2p game. Part of the intent is to give people the option, but just as generic measure to prevent abuse of the system (which people ALWAYS try to find ways to do), not to mention prevent potential tech problems from mass server transfers (which already happened when it was free), a fee is put in place. Another is that they want people to THINK and be RESPONSIBLE for their own decisions (let's be honest, practically no one is these days). What I mean by that, is choose your servers wisely and be responsible for the decisions you make/made.

In regards to the whole "SE is just trying to make money"... well, yeah. So what? Why is it bad for a for-profit company to provide paid services? People need to stop thinking that SE is their friend lol... almost makes others wonder if these people really even have any to be thinking that.

[Remn]

I can understand this to a degree but a lockout timer for transferring again would negate this in most cases unless somebody is a completely solo player that wants to transfer every other month and does not have any friends they want to play with. Also, as mentioned before there is a 1 million gil cap on transferring gil so the impact on market exploitation would be minimal at best, even at 25k per tomb item you would not even be able to make more than 4 2 star items and then would have to sit on them for over a month and pray that prices don't get adjusted on your old server in order to make it actually worthwhile.

I think TERA use to have a free server transfer lock out (1 week i think). what end up happen was people would create alt to transer to another server then buy stuff and transfer back to double their profit. (TERA transfer is lockout base on character. so you can have multiple alt doin it)
by craeting multiple alt u can endlessly transfer and manipulate market. (even if they make it so that 1 account can only transfer once a month, you still gonna have the same issue where a gorup of people would work togather to transfer stuff and make their profit. (4 people with 1 mill cap gil transfer from A server to B, then buy stuff and then make trade to their friend, then that person transfer back to A server to sell it.)

Like you said 1 mil can only get you 1 or 2 pieces of 2 star equipment but what if there 100 ppl doing the trick? then the market would be flush with 50-100 pieces of 2 star item in less than a day