Cross server Auction house?

[Raistlin]

You guys think this feature could work on FFXIV? i dont know too much about economy, but seems this way offer/demand proportions should be the same.

I think about it because long ago, yoshiP said that in a future you probably can change your server some times (like once a week or a month, etc). RMT could use it to buy millions in a server and profit in another one.

What do you think?

[TheVedis]

no, too abusable, not by rmt but by people in general to move items cross server

[Finalfreak]

no, too abusable, not by rmt but by people in general to move items cross server

It is indeed at this moment. It might be very good tho in v2.0, depending on how they'll handle the servers there. But for now, no.

[Elexia]

RMT Aside, the beauty of having separate servers is so separate communities can be created which has their own economy. Cross-server everything is really going to cheapen the play experience in the log run lol.

Universal MW (between all cities) would do just fine. I highly doubt he'll introduce a constant server move option, if anything they might adapt the 3 month cooldown period that XI has, so if you're that desperate, you'll be spending more money in the long run just to make virtual money to sell.

[syntaxlies]

would make it easier for rmt so, no, wont work

[Finalfreak]

You guys think this feature could work on FFXIV? i dont know too much about economy, but seems this way offer/demand proportions should be the same.

I think about it because long ago, yoshiP said that in a future you probably can change your server some times (like once a week or a month, etc). RMT could use it to buy millions in a server and profit in another one.

What do you think?

I think this is just not possible with the current code of FFXIV. It sounds like a good idea tho for v2.0. It all depends how they'll handle the servers in v2.0

[Raistlin]

i mean is more abusable to buy 100 million in shards in the cheaper server, and in a week, move to a expensive shards server and sell them, that is the way RMT will do it, i think with a global auction house (only 1 for all servers) there is not rmt chances to profit.

[TheVedis]

i mean is more abusable to buy 100 million in shards in the cheaper server, and in a week, move to a expensive shards server and sell them, that is the way RMT will do it, i think with a global auction house (only 1 for all servers) there is not rmt chances to profit.

it has nothing to do with rmt but economy in general

some servers have different prices on various items for a reasonm either due to lack of that item on the server because its not farmed or because of how much gil is floating around between active players

if you remove the servers individuality you blend everything together and punish those servers in which prices would normaly be lower by forcing them to pay higher prices, and on servers where gil is more plentiful they will get cheaper prices


each server needs to be able to stand on its own, the server itself needs to be able to farm its own items and not rely on other servers to do it for them



also, with this idea, anyone can toss any item from server to server for free(1 gil sales anyone?) so it would then be abusable in that regard, and players werent meant to be able to move their gear/items etc etc from 1 server to another

[Raistlin]

it has nothing to do with rmt but economy in general

some servers have different prices on various items for a reasonm either due to lack of that item on the server because its not farmed or because of how much gil is floating around between active players

if you remove the servers individuality you blend everything together and punish those servers in which prices would normaly be lower by forcing them to pay higher prices, and on servers where gil is more plentiful they will get cheaper prices


each server needs to be able to stand on its own, the server itself needs to be able to farm its own items and not rely on other servers to do it for them



also, with this idea, anyone can toss any item from server to server for free(1 gil sales anyone?) so it would then be abusable in that regard, and players werent meant to be able to move their gear/items etc etc from 1 server to another

i dont think that u are correct, if u unite all AH, price will auto-adjust, i mean, u cant sell that thing so expensive coz from other server it is more cheaper, and cheaper resources will go faster than how it was on expensives servers.

Dont forget that there are much more offer like u said, but too a big demand too.


your last lines are wrong, toshi said that they plan to allow us to move from server to server. That mean you can go with all your items once a week or once a month to another server.. no sense to move items using AH if you can use migration.

[Jinko]

it has nothing to do with rmt but economy in general

some servers have different prices on various items for a reasonm either due to lack of that item on the server because its not farmed or because of how much gil is floating around between active players

if you remove the servers individuality you blend everything together and punish those servers in which prices would normaly be lower by forcing them to pay higher prices, and on servers where gil is more plentiful they will get cheaper prices


each server needs to be able to stand on its own, the server itself needs to be able to farm its own items and not rely on other servers to do it for them



also, with this idea, anyone can toss any item from server to server for free(1 gil sales anyone?) so it would then be abusable in that regard, and players werent meant to be able to move their gear/items etc etc from 1 server to another

To be honest that would sort itself out after several months.

If the servers were truly cross server then the price of an item would average out roughly the same on all servers.

It wouldn't even be cross servers it would be more like a centralised market.

Of course SE could never pull something like this off, and sure as hell couldn't with the current servers.