Marketboard insanity

[Dimitrias]

The problem is, you can see the exact price everyone is selling for. In ffxi all you could see was the price history and how many was up for sell. Also there was that tax for putting items up. Also stuff only stayed on AH for 3 days till removed. All those things made ffxi's ah perfect imho.

The market boards in this game, I believe are not used as freuquently as the AH in ffxi.

For one ffxi 90% of things could be sold on the AH.
It had consumables that would run out like arrows, bullets, potions, foods
It was much easier to get stuff on AH, then trying to find an npc or mob that droped the item.

FFXIV arr however, npc's are plentiful, plus the game hands out pretty much everything. Just by doing primals, dungeons, quest's, tombs.

That's the thing about these modern mmo's, I find myself vare rarely ever using the market board/ah systems anymore. But in ffxi, I used the AH every single day, it was a huge part of that game.

[Pandastirfry]

The problem is, you can see the exact price everyone is selling for. In ffxi all you could see was the price history and how many was up for sell. Also there was that tax for putting items up. Also stuff only stayed on AH for 3 days till removed. All those things made ffxi's ah perfect imho.

Which once the forums for XI launched (and even on fan site forums) had as much if not more wailing and gnashing of teeth over "under cutting" as... Well every MMO ever.

It was the same as here, but with an annoying "bid the most recent sale price, sale did not complete +/- bid, sale did not complete +/- bid, sale did not complete... Etc until you either guessed right or it was priced well above its worth.