Results 1 to 10 of 33

Hybrid View

  1. #1
    Player
    InkstainedGwyn's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2017
    Posts
    1,236
    Character
    Souji Hanamura
    World
    Exodus
    Main Class
    Astrologian Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by K3KW4RCHILD View Post
    I'm curious to know if any game has a policy of punishing smart buyers and sellers. However, the real problem lay in the dopes who don't check the purchase history and notice that they are being manipulated. Then the even bigger dopes who buy it anyway and make it worse for the rest of us. But, such is a free market life.
    I've honestly found that there's a lot of folks - more than I've met in other MMOs, it feels like - here that haven't ever played another online game before. That's not a bad thing, I'm more than happy to see the field expanding. Add that to SE's usual practice of going out of their way to change things to match the players' whims & needs/protect them, though, and you frequently get a lot of questions like this where folks mistake something that's disadvantageous/inconvenient for something "wrong." Heck, I think this is the first game I ever played where I could actually buy everything that's currently on the MB but not placed there by Gil sellers/money transfer mules.

    It is always funny, though, to see someone go off in high dudgeon about some "absolutely idiotic design flaw" and it's like... game queues or rng or crafting and you just have to say... this is your first MMO, isn't it, bud?
    (1)
    Last edited by InkstainedGwyn; 02-16-2019 at 12:09 AM.

  2. #2
    Player
    Colino's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Gridania
    Posts
    2,327
    Character
    Colino Nyea
    World
    Omega
    Main Class
    Culinarian Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by InkstainedGwyn View Post
    I've honestly found that there's a lot of folks - more than I've met in other MMOs, it feels like - here that haven't ever played another online game before.
    It probably is quite a large number due to the Final Fantasy brand, which with one exception has always focused on single-player (or at least not MMO) games. For a lot of people playing just due to the brand it would be their first MMO (or at least first in this style).

    The OP reminded me of an incident a read where a player threatened to report another because they bought an item off the MB which had been mis-priced.
    (1)