Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
You say that armor prices are being driven down because you have 10+ people selling it...

That just didn't happen in FFXI. Crafting was tedious and dicy, because generally only HQ items were any good or the ones with rare NM drop ingredients.

What you're describing to me is still market factors that are not influenced by the method that players trade with each other. Items in FFXIV are extremely easy to obtain compared to the server population we have now, and with our top heavy userbase (meaning, almost everyone is at end game now), everyone is more or less farming the same items.

Take a look at low to mid level items. Prices are more stable there, and the items themselves are more profitable to farm in some cases.

Again, the way in which players trade with each other has nothing to do with price fluctuations and inflation/deflation.
Inflation and deflation is another topic all together, Im not talking about any of that. Im talking about instability in the market.

I would actually argue the items few people are using, are the most unstable. Im not at endgame, but looking through the armor lists, the end game armors are more stable. NM drops, and items used to level crafting have been the most out of whack thing Ive ever seen. The prices are literally all over the place. This is because you get people who just walk through an area, kill an NM, and then see it goes for 100k, and then go "Ill just put it up for 70k, I dont care, its more money than I had before" and then everyone else does that, and then next thing you know the item is 5k.

This. Did. Not. Happen. In. FFXI. At all. People didnt try and compete as hard, because you couldnt see the exact amount something was up for. You assumed the lowest undercut was about the price the item was going for, you had no evidence to support that the item was undercut 20k less than its going for, when the last 10 sales are all 100k. People now undercut in an attempt to stop other people from going lower than their sale, and to make sure theirs sells first, however, everyone just undercuts the item to next to nothing anyways.

Why do you want this system like this? Do you not sell things on the AH at all? You want to put something up, and then have it sit there for days because everyone else is beating your price? You want to constantly observe, and then readjust the price on your items? You want to put more effort into selling an item, just so youll end up making many times less money than you would have if it was just blind?