Market Board Tax Changes

[TwistedTea]

Think this was long overdue. XIV needs more gil sinks.

Just for playing the game, you get gil handed out like candy. Not to mention the other currencies like scrips which can be converted into gil.

Then there was Reclaim/Reuse. Let's face it, while it's fun reclaiming/reusing expensive mats; it devalues the selling price of those mats in the long run.

I'd also like to see super expensive mounts or glams as additional gil sinks eg: 50 million gil or above.

[Hasrat]

You know players are spoiled when they balk at such a small gil sink. There's not that many in the game to begin with.

[Missbone]

The thing i dont like about this new MB stuff is that it feels again punishing players for something that clearly is the devs fault because they didn't thought enough ahead. Yea Limsa is without a doubt the best spot for the mentioned reasons. It allows world travel and the mb and retainer is just a jump from the aetheryte away. But it was clearly the wrong decision because it ruins a lot of other features.

For example if someone had put up some very expensive items in less frequent zones like Uldah or Kugane it was still worth a visit, now this zones will get even fewer players because it dont matter anymore. Players will also still favorite Limsa because of the mb close to the aethrite and world travel. It would have been a far better solution for our lazy devs if they would also enable world travel via Kugane and the Crystarium. This way the two citys would get more visitors again and would provide a good alternative to Limsa because there mb can also be reached real fast without changing how the whole system works.

This was clearly a very lame move. I do not have a issue with paying the taxes but i feel relay sorry for players that do not have so much money and used to travel to other city's to save some.

[MaiSuu]

You know players are spoiled when they balk at such a small gil sink. There's not that many in the game to begin with.

It's not that I'm 'spoiled' or other players are 'spoiled', in my case it's more of, I'm POOR, and saving money/making it is not really easy for me and many others i meet. Sure sometimes the markets great and we can make a few, but then it goes back down again.

Point is, this whole jumping cities was saving a few pennies here and there and that HELPED. ALOT. Believe it or not. So no its not being 'spoiled' in my case, it's just being POOR.

-snipping-

This was clearly a very lame move. I do not have a issue with paying the taxes but i feel relay sorry for players that do not have so much money and used to travel to other city's to save some.

This I agree with as I fall in this category very much so!

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I hope i used the Quote tool correctly as it is my first time using such //cry

[Elladie]

I'm amazed people actually go to the trouble of porting somewhere else to save on taxes. Then again I don't often buy from the MB, prefer to make things myself if possible.

I also struggle with the idea that it's hard to make money. I make a few hundred thousand a week without trying, just by selling the stuff from Quick Ventures. If I actually try to make money, I can make a couple of million a week, no trouble. I bought a new house a couple of weeks ago (haven't had one for a while), it cost me around 3 mil plus the cost of building the house. I was back up to my pre-purchase savings last weekend. All I did was have my venturers farm high level mats - just basic 70-80 mats - and then I quick synthed a few stacks of ingots, lumber, cloth and sold those. 3.5 mil back in less than 2 weeks

[TwistedTea]

I'm amazed people actually go to the trouble of porting somewhere else to save on taxes. Then again I don't often buy from the MB, prefer to make things myself if possible.

On the big ticket items or huge stacks of items like crafting mats, tping to the city where the retainer was selling from could save you huge amounts of gil. For example 5% of 500k is 25k.

Vet players might think it's little but for sprouts it hurts.

But yeah, it's easy to make gil although I will add the caveat, with crafting/gathering being casualised and everyone and their aldgoat being a crafter/gatherer, it's harder to make sums like 100m a day/week that crafters used to make in previous expansions during the initial few days of patches.

There are other ways to make gil which do not involve crafting/gathering but these 2 are the most consistent gil makers.

I think many sprouts see vet crafters who have gil capped, wonder why they can't do the same as they have to deal with aggressive undercutting thanks to the increase in number of crafters/gatherers and World Visit. Additionally, now they are being slapped with additional MB fees.

[Nedkel]

The only people its going to affect are those who actively are buying stuff from market, a newbies who has just started the game.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Now I can't RP as a corrupt politician that would teleport to cities to evade taxes anymore

[Halivel]

Now I can't RP as a corrupt politician that would teleport to cities to evade taxes anymore

Well why, now you can RP as a corrupt politican who makes his purchases on Black Market (i.e. direct transactions instead of using certified sellers services)

[Shurrikhan]

Ehh, I like no longer being obliged to teleport to a different city just to get the discounts on crafted 480 gear.