So I have been experimenting with the auction house!

[Blissa]

So I have been experimenting with the auction house. Besides the economy being the worst that I have ever seen in any mmorpg. I have noticed that in the morning things sell cheaper then late in the day.

Also very few things sell well, a lot of the stuff I have tried selling sits for days before it sells. And some stuff sells 5 minutes after I put it up. I honestly think SE needs to do something to boost the economy if this game is going to make it 10 plus years like FFXI.

Everything in the game is handed to you which makes gil is pretty much useless. Sooner not later people are going to get tired of the same old dungeon grind day after day. One of the best qualities of FFXI was farming stuff up to make gill. It added a lot of depth to the game.

[ForteXX]

We have no auction house in this game...

[Enkidoh]

Exactly, the Market Board is literally just a list of player-owned retainer bazaars - there is no FFXI-style AH in FFXIV, where people placed bids on an item you were selling. And the reason the economy is so depressed has nothing to do with gear being 'handed to you' - players are simply hoarding gil to buy their FC houses. Try to think outside the FFXI mindset and things might be a little more enjoyable for you (such as expecting to make a fortune selling junk).

[Grey_Cain]

Honestly, they should just scrap the economy entirely; turn the market boards into a trash receptacle for people to scrounge through everything that gets discarded, and remove equipment sellers from non-Aetheryte camps. It's not difficult to become entirely self-sufficient, and it would not only work a lot better with their mantra that dungeon-grinding is all that matters, but it would add a hell of a lot more depth than wishing on a get-rich-quick-scheme like farming for FFXI's super-rare drops.

[Roris]

Housing pretty much destroyed the markets the moment prices were announced, that and tomes becoming easier to get. Better hoard that myth to sell the mats or craft the new gear and sell that and hold off on using them to buy any ilv 90 gear you might be missing for a while, most people already have full 90 sets anyway though, so the boom will probably only last a couple of days before it crashes too. The game handing you gear definitely also has an impact on the economy because only endgame crafting matters and even then not so much currently until 2.2. No reason to buy weapons and a body piece when guild quests hand you one every 5 levels for the first 30 levels then you can just get GC gear, your AF at 45 or dungeon weapons and other gear or do more quests that also hand out gear like crazy, no reason to buy tools when guild quests hand you one until 50, no reason to have HQ materia'd gear arguably until you're 50 because content is already so easy to beat without them.

[Yarikh]

That's something you gotta figure out on your own. Something that sells well one day will have its prices dropped like mad the next.

It's not entirely useless to sell equipment either.. you just need to know what is more likely to sell. And npc merchants don't sell HQ.*Maybe not all will care about the small boost in stats but there are some that do, myself included.

[Blissa]

Its not a FFXI mind set 90% of this game is a dungeon grind. Crafted gear is meaningless, which makes stuff on the market board worthless, crafters have to give their stuff away to sell it. You know what I hear in my FC every day? "I'm board!" People are board because there's nothing to do but Dungeon grind!