Extrem undercutting?

[GenJoe]

Chris - I see you have no crafting or gathering classes to 50 and as such, have no idea the amount of time and effort required to gather materials needed to make high end crafting goods. There is a very good reason why things can reach over 400k, largely due to the effort involved in gathering the materials needed (fishing windows anyone?). Not to mention in order to gather and craft most high end things, you need to be completely overmelded on your gear, which takes again significant time and effort.

Nah that only justifies the base mats costing so much, it still doesn't explain the 1m+ profit margin on a finished product.

i.e. I can, at this moment, literally make Inferno weapons and make a 3m+ profit on each one easily.. It's not really hard to make one either, but the lack of crafters willing to take on the project has it so that on Jenova at least, there are only 2 people on MB that make and sell Inferno weapons..

On a less extreme, but more prevalent side of things, forager's and artisan's gear all have about 1m+ profit on it, on Jenova. There's really no other argument to make for that other than, because people will buy it at that price point.


Same goes for materia, people are so afraid of RNG they don't ever try to tackle the RNG problem by mass producing.. Afraid of getting 1 tier IV out of 50 converts? Do 500, 5000, 50000, and the number will eventually start to show a pattern close to the standard value.. and yet, people try spiritbonding 2 sets of gear, end up with no tier IVs and determine that tier IIIs should still make profit for them, otherwise they'd be LOSING money. That mindset sets in, and causes people to overprice their item because they're afraid of losing money. Which is fine and dandy, just don't get mad at me for undercutting by a large amount because I know my margin of profit better (due to larger number of data samples).