Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
The only people winning here are going to be the buyers, the bot farmers, and the people selling more obscure items that are mostly ignored by the aforementioned farmers (Which is what I took to doing after I got sick of being hassled by undercut bots).
which doesn't make sense. Price is determined by anyone who is willing to sell and buy.

Opening market for more subjects with the EXACTLY SAME means of getting any and all resources DOESN'T change anything. If you have some personal quarrel with "bots" it won't be changed by shared market. If they are problem for you now, it will stay exactly the same after.

Anyway, how do you define your "legitimate crafter" over another who is willing to sell cheaper? I sell cheap too because I don't think it's worth more. I don't really need to buy resources for 2k and sell the products for 100k. And I don't have any problem to sell it for 10k, it's still nice money for me.

If it's not worth someones time for real market price (AKA the price someone is willing to deliver for) and they depend on some sort of monopoly so they can sell "legitimately" expensive wares then they should be scared by shared market, and it's a good thing.

The only way shared market could harm anything is if there are different means for getting things. If one server has 4x bonus for mining then yeah.. shared market could harm someone. But on the other hand.. games that work that way, also allows anyone to go there so it's all equal again.