Marketboard PSA

[Nedkel]

Players having only 40 space on the marketboard is the problem.

People just want to sell quick and free up space for next items they are farming, and because they dont have it a lot they are going to undercut REALLY HARD.
The fact of SE completely screwing over economy of their game by crafting changes and etc does not help too. Once something new is out its price is only going down as the demand is getting lower and supply is getting higher with more players progressing into the certain spot where the items are crafted and dropped. Its not BDO where devs in this game manages their game economy carefully, making all activities profitable, nope in FFXIV the amount of gil making methods is limited to you either making millions a week or million a month.

FFXIV as the game itself does not handle its economy well, lesser the significance of gil, putting in more and more materials, heavily limiting marketplace for players, and these are results of lvl 80 equipment dropping in price from 1 mil to 50k.

[Seraphor]

With adventurer in need:
Expert Roulette - 14k
Level 80 - 14k
Level 50-70 - 14k
Leveling - 20k
Trials - 16k
MSQ - 14k
Mentor -11k
Alliance raid- 19k
Normal raid - 13k

Total: ~135k
Source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Duty_Roulette

Not including the gil rewards for completing weekly challenges, selling off the tomestone mats,materia etc

If you combine roulette with treasure maps,hunts even more gil

Crystarium crafting leves will give you a minimum of ~1-2m for 100 leves/HQ hand ins.

That's practically a day job. I get maybe Levelling and Alliance roulettes done most days, and the odd trial roulette.
All of that before you do any actually enjoyable content. That's definitely, as Jin put it, no life mode.

[TwistedTea]

That's practically a day job. I get maybe Levelling and Alliance roulettes done most days, and the odd trial roulette.
All of that before you do any actually enjoyable content. That's definitely, as Jin put it, no life mode.

Look, I barely play the game these days and have stopped crafting for the MB. So most of my gil income is currently coming from the system.

If you don't want to do roulettes, there are Treasure Maps. Even the old maps like Gazelleskins will net you quite a bit before selling the crafting mats.

I get that some players don't enjoy grinding out for gil but at the same time, it's not difficult to make 3m a week.

[Tlamila]

The thing I hate the most is how people who just want to empty their inventory sell on mb instead of just vendoring. That way a lot of stuff is worth on the mb even less than vendor price cause everybody just undercuts. At this point we can just remove the mb, what's the point anyway if making money of what took you time and effort to get is apparently frowned upon?

[Seraphor]

Look, I barely play the game these days and have stopped crafting for the MB. So most of my gil income is currently coming from the system.

If you don't want to do roulettes, there are Treasure Maps. Even the old maps like Gazelleskins will net you quite a bit before selling the crafting mats.

I get that some players don't enjoy grinding out for gil but at the same time, it's not difficult to make 3m a week.

And I'm saying, making vast amounts of gil isn't so important to me that I would do all of that, consuming maybe 5 hours a day, and that's why I'm not a multi millionaire.
To explain to you and dispel your incredulity at me being a relative peasant and therefore not overly concerned with marketboard profits.

The thing I hate the most is how people who just want to empty their inventory sell on mb instead of just vendoring. That way a lot of stuff is worth on the mb even less than vendor price cause everybody just undercuts. At this point we can just remove the mb, what's the point anyway if making money of what took you time and effort to get is apparently frowned upon?

As I said earlier, I'll vend anything that's not listed for at least 1,000g on the MB, or I guess in some cases anything that's not at least 1,000g more than its vend price, although the vast majority of these things sell for tens of gil anyway. If it's less, then I'll just vend it.
It boggles me that people list items for vendor price, or less in some cases, but for some reason they do...

[Deceptus]

I’m not telling people what to do, that’s the issue here. I’m just stating what could be done.

Except you did before you went and edited your OP.

PSA for all you would be gil makers on the marketboards. I'm not here to argue, but seriously y'all. Stop undercutting prices so heavily . . . This just shouldn't happen. Please try to have better marketboard etiquette, price match, and we can all make good gil at the same pace. You're not going to make a buck quicker because you're more than likely going to be undercut and are contributing to tanking prices making things more difficult for everybody else.

You are in fact attempting to shame people into doing what you want them to do. Classic manipulation strategy.

[ElazulHP]

Undercuts thread by 1 gil

[SamRF]

Supply and demand

[Divinemights]

I thought they teach you basic economy of price driven by supply and demand in high school. Why this type of thread keeps pop up?

[Jennah]

Spoken as if it wasn't stupid-easy to have 100x more gil than you actually need; and if you put any real effort into it, several times more gil than you could ever spend on anything.