They ever gonna fix the market board?

[Necrotica]

Like add buy orders?

Purchasing exact amount wanted vs the entire listed stack?

The whole thing feels extremely dated as it currently is. I appreciate them redoing the early dungeons, but the market board effects both new and old players.

Should maybe divert some resources to making that better.

[KuroMaboroshi]

Like add buy orders?

Purchasing exact amount wanted vs the entire listed stack?

The whole thing feels extremely dated as it currently is. I appreciate them redoing the early dungeons, but the market board effects both new and old players.

Should maybe divert some resources to making that better.

Buy orders sound like an excellent idea that I'd love to see added.

But purchasing exact amounts? How would that work without forcing people to split the stacks they sell, which would not be an improvement for the sellers? People usually only want to sell in the amounts they list. It's a nice way to offer discounts. List 1 item for 100% price and 4 of the same item for 80% given folk an incentive to buy more of your goods.
I suppose you could add buy orders that grab an exact stack of what you want if someone happens to list that exact amount of an item, or if it could be assembled from multiple smaller stacks, but other than that I don't see it working...

[TheMightyMollusk]

You could always go gather your own stuff if you only want a few. Be proactive! There's so much more to the game than the Limsa aetheryte plaza!

[Kes13a]

on the surface, appears to be a nice idea... but..

if you put up 50, sell only what someone needs, and are undercut, the remaining ones wont sell, until you lower the price. it could be up there for a while as you are being undercut by others as time goes on and theirs gets purchased over yours. That will play havoc with the open market spots on retainers. Or are you also suggesting they set the pricing as well?

[Seera1024]

on the surface, appears to be a nice idea... but..

if you put up 50, sell only what someone needs, and are undercut, the remaining ones wont sell, until you lower the price. it could be up there for a while as you are being undercut by others as time goes on and theirs gets purchased over yours. That will play havoc with the open market spots on retainers. Or are you also suggesting they set the pricing as well?

Guild Wars 2 has this method in their Trading Post.

Things are eventually sold unless you've put your price at way too high for current demand.

Granted, an individual doesn't have a limited number of slots to sell things in FFXIV like they do in GW2.

I'd say for this to be plausible, they'd have to make retainers be able to sell an unlimited number of items to account for things that may take ages to sell. I've had things in GW2 take months to sell, some of them were up for more than a year even - and they were at minimum price you could sell them on the market for. And that's not reasonable for a game that limits how many things you can sell at any one time.

[Gemina]

Guild Wars 2 has this method in their Trading Post.

Things are eventually sold unless you've put your price at way too high for current demand.

Granted, an individual doesn't have a limited number of slots to sell things in FFXIV like they do in GW2.

I'd say for this to be plausible, they'd have to make retainers be able to sell an unlimited number of items to account for things that may take ages to sell. I've had things in GW2 take months to sell, some of them were up for more than a year even - and they were at minimum price you could sell them on the market for. And that's not reasonable for a game that limits how many things you can sell at any one time.

I never played GW2. Wouldn't this just lead to players using it for unlimited storage? That is most certainly what it would be used for if FFXIV worked that way.

[Rolder50]

I never played GW2. Wouldn't this just lead to players using it for unlimited storage? That is most certainly what it would be used for if FFXIV worked that way.

Normally you would have a deposit that you would have to pay to put it up. If you cancel the sale, you lose the deposit. So you could if you wanted but you'd be losing a lot of money for the privilege.

[Seera1024]

Normally you would have a deposit that you would have to pay to put it up. If you cancel the sale, you lose the deposit. So you could if you wanted but you'd be losing a lot of money for the privilege.

And you risk someone buying it. So you have to put it up for an obscene amount of money for it which makes the deposit possibly a greater value than the item itself.

[Gemina]

Normally you would have a deposit that you would have to pay to put it up. If you cancel the sale, you lose the deposit. So you could if you wanted but you'd be losing a lot of money for the privilege.

Hmm. I wonder how much of stored items by players are actually utilized, and how much this number increases as the player acquires more items. As I said previously, the player would be using it for storage, and would not be actively taking items in and out. This would make the deposit negligible at worst for most players.

Obviously, I am not proposing such a half-arsed system for storage, but it did get me thinking.