Destroying Server Economies

[KageTokage]

That isn't called "destroying economies" it's called bringing them into parity.

You see, before, some servers had absolutely ridiculous prices on things. Now this will force those people who charge ridiculous amounts to lower their prices to compete.

And really, that's the thing. They're bringing competition to the economies, which is actually very healthy for the economies, not destructive.

I'd agree more with this if not for the fact that most server economies are heavily influenced by bot farmers who oft sell at price points so low as to scarcely be profitable for legitimate players to imitate.

These guys oft exist strictly to craft/gather and aren't actually putting any time or effort into the process so all they care about is pushing sales as quickly as possible.

As much as I hate to let them have their way, there really isn't any point to trying to sell stuff on the MB if I can make just as much if not more gil for the time spent through more entertaining activities like treasure maps and SE continues to be absolutely useless when it comes to banning them, so I think the economy is permanently screwed at this point.

[TwistedTea]

I'd agree more with this if not for the fact that most server economies are heavily influenced by bot farmers who oft sell at price points so low as to scarcely be profitable for legitimate players to imitate.

These guys oft exist strictly to craft/gather and aren't actually putting any time or effort into the process so all they care about is pushing sales as quickly as possible.

As much as I hate to let them have their way, there really isn't any point to trying to sell stuff on the MB if I can make just as much if not more gil for the time spent through more entertaining activities like treasure maps and SE continues to be absolutely useless when it comes to banning them, so I think the economy is permanently screwed at this point.

I like the concept of World Visit balancing the Market Boards across the data centre in theory but I feel like the devs have given bot farms/botters potential control of the entire data center's market boards.