Quote Originally Posted by Marxam View Post
I think its ok the way it is, could use some more regulation but that's what you get with a free market. My biggest gripe is having the same people dominate the markets because they can craft non stop either through longer play times or "other means" and have multiple retainers to have said products on. I knew it was the end of my mb crafting and selling days when SE announced retainers on the mogstation. I just gave up entirely and only put stuff up on occasion or if its the hot ticket item of the week. MB will never be fair as long as there are people with more retainers than you. Business 101. More resources = More avenues for making money. gg SE.
Yuuuuuup. Retainers are my biggest gripe too. On my server, it's essentially impossible to compete with certain types of items because the same handful of people with the max number of retainers just control the entirety of that particular market. Like, the only feasible way you can possibly compete is by waking up in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping, putting your stuff up for sale, and hoping you can offload any of it before your competition wakes up. And sorry, but that's not fun or realistic for the vast majority of people so that's pretty much out of the question.

The fact of the matter is certain facets of the MB are literally broken. I'm not saying it's impossible to make gil, but that doesn't mean everything is all fine and dandy.