World Visiting system

[Vaati_Kigu]

I'm making this post shortly after they showed off in the live letter about the system, that you can buy items from the world you visit. I'm going to list some concerns

1. with the ability to buy from market board this could cause "some people" to raid servers to buy up one item.

2. Prices will level out but not for a long time.

I think the community for FFXIV is great, but my worried is for those few people out there, that will use this system for ill. I would ask to rethink about the buying thing.

I hope a system can be figured out to help with this concern.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I do agree. Crafting/playing the marketboard game is endgame for a lot of players I know, and this is only going to take the fun and enjoyment out of that for them. I hope it's reconsidered.

[tymora]

After the initial few months, when the prices balances out, it will be a way bigger market for all crafters concerned.
I don't see how this will take the fun and enjoyment out.

[Shurrikhan]

Agreed. Either share the marketplace completely, from the start, or limit trades to cross-world friends at most.

[RareItems]

They should just completely share the marketplace and make it Datacenter wide xD.

[Zojha]

They should just completely share the marketplace and make it Datacenter wide xD.

I think they actually wanted to do that and couldn't. I remember a comment along those lines on the live reddit updater.

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

I'm also concerned about this. People can just purchase something in a destination world for cheaper, move back to their own, and resell at a higher price. Also, what about RMT?

[KisaiTenshi]

I'm also concerned about this. People can just purchase something in a destination world for cheaper, move back to their own, and resell at a higher price. Also, what about RMT?

It will probably cause the RMT to bottom-out because now they don't need to have RMT bots on every server, they can just take over the lowest-populated server and flood it with so much stuff that no real craftig player will want to stay. Then they have smuggler bots that cause massive amounts of gil to be transferred to other servers.

Wonder if the infusion prices are going to tank even harder now that the bot farmers have to worry about cross-server competition.

It could actually result in an awful situation where people are forced to adopt unreasonably low prices if their server happens to be one of the odd few that doesn't have a MB dominated by bots.

There is no cross-server competition, the bots are run by the same scammers. They're more likely to either:

a) tank the price of all items that can be gathered

b) buy up all high-value items and either keep them off the market or maximize the price.

At any rate the easiest fix is to only allow items to be bought, not sold via the world visiting system. eg you can goto X, and buy up all of Y item, but when you come back to your server, you can't sell Y item.

[Dirwen]

At any rate the easiest fix is to only allow items to be bought, not sold via the world visiting system. eg you can goto X, and buy up all of Y item, but when you come back to your server, you can't sell Y item.

Very good idea being unable to sell the item you bought from a different server. At least if sellable make it have a huge tax like a tariff.

[Penthea]

I'm also concerned about this. People can just purchase something in a destination world for cheaper, move back to their own, and resell at a higher price.

That would only work if the buyer doesn't know they can visit another server, doesn't know they can use another server's mb, or is feeling lazy and cba to go to another server. Personally if I find something is too expensive I'll do what most people do irl and that's compare prices from other places.