Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
The vast majority of items don't make a profit on the marketboard. Which is why crafters dominate it.
It takes the same amount of time to craft something and sell it for 400k, as it does to sell it for 2m.
As I've just demonstrated why your 'purchasing power' argument is false, why should you make 2m while someone else only makes 400k?
Why should someone pay 2m for something that should only cost them 400k?

Why should your 1 hour of crafting time net you 2m, but my 1 hour of crafting time only make me 400k?

Why should Bob on server X purchase this item for 400k, after only 15 hours of dungeon grinding, but I can only purchase the item for 2m after 75 hours of dungeon grinding?

What makes your time worth more than mine?

It’s that simple, and that’s why these disparate economies are such a problem, and why this world visit system will be good for the economies.
You didn't prove my argument false. You added a caveat to it, which I was not unaware of, but which ultimately doesn't matter a whole lot because the player economy is the overwhelming influence in determining item value, not the fixed aspects of the economy. What I said about purchasing power is generally correct, whether you like it or not.

If you dungeon grind for gil, that's your fault for being bad at gil making. You don't deserve to have whatever you want just because you want it. You don't deserve to have whatever you want just because you did something you wanted to do. If you want stuff, work for it or go without. You say "players who don't have the patience for crafting," but those are just players who aren't willing to work for what they want. They have other options, though those may be less optimal. Why should I feel bad for them?

Now, to be clear, I don't care about this change. It won't affect me. It may even be an improvement for me, since I can now have access to the entire data center's material supply and potentially take control of a particular market across all servers. I just think it's erroneous to talk about "fair" prices or other such nonsense that people who think economics is the study of feelings like to bring up. The issue with the economies on lower pop servers wasn't the prices; it was the below threshold supply and demand that results in a really inconsistent economy.