Market Board Tax Changes

[MaiSuu]

Patch 5.2 came in with some new changes to the tax system in place for the Marketboard, and well I just had a few questions as to ....Why?

It felt fine before, infact it was well worth to cough up a few gil 999 or 150, 200 even to teleport somewhere and avoid a 4k or 6k or w.e large amount of tax.

So why now? Why is it if I'm in the crystarium, buying from a crystarium Retainer vendor, that I have still have to pay a tax?

Maybe I'm missing some part of the puzzle, but it just doesn't make sense to me at all.

Anyone wanna shed some light on decision, because my minds boggled. The way it was before was great for those trying to save money (Which I always am).

I'm kind of hoping it changes back...

[Skivvy]

I would assume it's just a way to make a larger gil-sink in game. As it was before, you usually either had people teleporting (tiny fee) to get to their city to buy an item, or they just paid the fee flat-out. Now it's even across the board.


A most-likely-incredibly-inaccurate thought I had is maybe their awful coding is getting bogged down by a city or two having a large majority of the retainers/transactions, and this is a way for them to try and even it out. If you pay a fee in all cities, people won't be so picky as to where they place their retainers. :P

[Limecat]

Because SE wants more/bigger gil sinks in the game. Though knowing players, this is going to result in someone starting up a 3rd-party market listing site so people can set up direct trades for high-price items to bypass taxes.

[KageTokage]

There was way too much gil in the economy even without gil farm bots being a factor.

It'll still takes ages before this has any meaningful impact, though.

[frostmagemari]

There was way too much gil in the economy even without gil farm bots being a factor.
It'll still takes ages before this has any meaningful impact, though.

Really, that's square's fault more than anyone's though. They handed gil out like candy on Halloween for doing the smallest of things.

[Nandrolone]

Really, that's square's fault more than anyone's though. They handed gil out like candy on Halloween for doing the smallest of things.

This. Yoshida and the dev team clearly have no idea what they are doing when it comes to an MMO having a balanced economy. You can tell because they just removed Reused when it was a brand new move. They are too wishy-washy and they need to stick to one formula. Changing things around all the time makes everything so inconsistent.

[Fynlar]

So is there now no effect/reason to having a retainer based in a particular market?

[VenKitsune]

The amusing thing is that the new tax system is actually BAD for the economy.

Before, when selling something, sometimes you could get away with selling it for more because you're selling in a certain city. Now? Well, now there is NO dissadvantage to just undercutting by 1 gil all the time, literlally no reason not to.

[Gula]

Money is strange in XIV.

Crafting and market board selling is a gil maker, but I've seen so many new players put off and discouraged by the undercutting that they remain on a 300k on average budget. All the people I know with like 30m+ are long time, active players or grind nonstop.

You either have too much from lack of ever buying anything, choosing to do everything yourself, or none at all because for want of minions, buying gear or apt. housing items.

[Barraind]

Its because of world visit.

Most everyone uses Limsa to world hop, since it has mb's in the same zone as the aetheryte hub. This led a lot of people to move retainers to Limsa,because buyers are more willing to buy your equal costed thing if they dont pay a tax.

Thus, fewer taxes.

They either had to:

1. Remove all mb taxes.

2. Tax everyone the same.



They certainly werent going to do 1.