Destroying Server Economies

[Kirsi]

Congratulations you've just experienced what real world businesses experience. It's called a Global Economy and you're now part of it. Where different countries (worlds) are now competing with you.

You have a few choices. Meet the new market supply and demand models, or quit.

Pretty sure you can't teleport to buy cheaper shoes in China in real life. Hardly the same concept.

[Nixxe]

Pretty sure you can't teleport to buy cheaper shoes in China in real life. Hardly the same concept.

Yeah, the conditions on each server are also fundamentally the same aside from population, so it's an inherently even playing field. While there's some degree of separation because you 1) can't browse all servers' marketboards simultaneously and 2) can't sell on other servers, it functions more like a straight increase in population than globalization.

[Malzian]

Pretty sure you can't teleport to buy cheaper shoes in China in real life. Hardly the same concept.

Honestly, these days if you're buying shoes at all you're buying them from China, there's just a heck of a lot of people you're paying for those shoes from the point they're made to the point they get to you. If you wanted to buy them cheaper (provided their was a free way to get to China) you could just buy them there. Granted, it's a loose fit, but there are some parallels to be made... The economies have just gone from being inaccessible planets to being all lined up on the same street. Now you're window shopping worlds instead of having only one store to buy from. Much better for the consumer, much worse for the seller and with such disparity between worlds it will be a painful process until everything evens out.

"This too shall pass..."

[Eriane_Elis]

Yeah sure lets continue to pay 2 million for piece of high end gear on some servers where others are 400k. Let be sure to maintain that sillyness.

You have to consider how long it takes to obtain the mats, then how much effort it took to become a crafter at said level and if cross-class skills were needed then you consider those as well. Then once you're done computing that, you add a bit for yourself. I was pretty shocked to see how cheap everything is in FF14 overall when I first came here. It's like people don't value themselves very much. But after playing for some time, I learned that there are market bots, gathering bots, and bots everywhere. Then there are those who have like 8 characters with 4 retainers each ruling the markets with discord notifications on price changes. I can see why people just give up and put their prices pretty low.

[Malzian]

You have to consider how long it takes to obtain the mats, then how much effort it took to become a crafter at said level and if cross-class skills were needed then you consider those as well. Then once you're done computing that, you add a bit for yourself. I was pretty shocked to see how cheap everything is in FF14 overall when I first came here. It's like people don't value themselves very much. But after playing for some time, I learned that there are market bots, gathering bots, and bots everywhere. Then there are those who have like 8 characters with 4 retainers each ruling the markets with discord notifications on price changes. I can see why people just give up and put their prices pretty low.

For me it's, "Crap... new Expac in 2 months and my retainers are full of crap... Let me see if I can clean this out and still made a little profit in the venture!"

[StouterTaru]

i'm an omnicrafter on Diabolos, and no one is going to buy things for the prices crafters have set here because you can get it cheaper on Balmung.

Was anyone buying them off your MB before? Crafters on my server set the prices so stupid high that stuff doesn't sell, and people instead rely on commissioning crafters.

[aesteval]

I like to believe that Square Enix has destroyed individual server economies now. i'm an omnicrafter on Diabolos, and no one is going to buy things for the prices crafters have set here because you can get it cheaper on Balmung. It's a HUGE slap to the face. This is the ONLY thing I'm upset about with the update, otherwise the world visiting system is great.

Being familiar with Diabolos' market all I can say it that yall got what you deserved given how overpriced nearly everything has been on your server.

[Skivvy]

I welcome the potential balancing of the markets. I've been on both Balmung and Coeurl - one is a buyer's market, the other a seller's market. My dream for the market would be for all servers to eventually be linked directly, without the need for an actual visit. The initial transition may be interesting while both sides adjust, but it will balance out.

I'd also like to see the city tax removed. What exactly is the point of that anyway? Seems a bit antiquated at this point.

[Melorie]

Can't wait for a data-center linked market board, honestly. Would make things way easier.

[LeonTrifang]

I mean let's be fair here, how much of the population is /actually/ going to actively server hop to find the best prices

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