Devs, can you upgrade the marketboard?

[AlliciaCapulet]

The system has remained largely unchanged for about 13 years now. Maybe it’s time to update or improve it a little?

Because of how basic the current system is, many sellers default to listing items in stacks of 99 out of convenience. It would be nice to have something more flexible, such as:

Buying side

You could enter the quantity you want to buy, and the system would automatically purchase from the cheapest listings first, then move up in price as each stack is depleted.

The system could also show which sellers you’re buying from. For example, if I buy 150 of an item:

• Alicia sells 99 for 400 gil each

• Bob sells 25 for 425 gil each

• Juliet sells 26 for 426 gil each

Total: 61,301 gil + fees

It would also be useful to set a price cap, like: “I’m willing to buy up to X gil per item.” Even if I don’t get the full quantity, the system would purchase everything available under that price.

Seller side

On the selling side, you could list any quantity of an item (or even multiple stacks) and simply set a unit price. For example: “Sell 1500 Mythril Ore at 250 gil each.”

I believe this would simplify things for everyone. Players wouldn’t be forced to buy a full stack of 99 when they only need, say, 10 items.

Also, it would be great if the Market Board became cross-world. We can already travel between worlds, so this would just make the system more convenient overall.

Those are just some simple idea, but I really feel that the whole system is due for an update/upgrade. We are not on the PS3 era anymore

[Veritas-Ancora]

The stacks idea is not a good one. If I have a lot, I discount. If it's one, I don't.

It's like real life economics of supply and demand.

[AlliciaCapulet]

The stacks idea is not a good one. If I have a lot, I discount. If it's one, I don't.

It's like real life economics of supply and demand.

On paper, it's true. In real life tho, especially with the bots and plugins that pollute the marketboard, you'll always get undercut if you want to sell for too much, and most people will simply buy the stack and resell it. Also bots simply undercut, no matter the stack size. So the discount idea doesn't really apply in the game.

[VeyaAkemi]

The best market board system I ever seen in a MMO is from Guild Wars 2, it works like this:

If you put an item up for sale, no matter how many: People will be always able to buy however many they need, if you put 999 of an item for sale, someone can buy 20, and you remain with 979 for sale, you do not need to put up 50 instances of that item at 20x each, it can simply take from the existing stack, if someone wants to buy more than the lowest price in the MB has, it will take from the next person up, like outlined in the OP.

In addition: Buy orders, along with being able to put things up for sale, you can also put up a request for something you want to buy, this means that someone can walk up to the market and immediately sell it, and you will be able to withdraw the item next time you swing by the market.

I wouldn't mind if XIV, or any other game for that matter, copied the system wholesale, it is genuinely the best experience I ever had in a MMO marketboard system.

[Asari5]

yes being able to buy as many as you need would be great.

the seller just has to stop giving a discount for large stacks. would probably be better anyway when i look at how a lot of people lower the prices without paying attention to stacksizes

[Iscah]

The one thing I would like to see altered is that if the one person is selling lots of copies of the same item, they don't all display and overload the list.

[Jeeqbit]

They said they can't make the market boards cross-world. They said that World Visit was added for several reasons, and one of the things that convinced them to do it was not being able to make a cross-world market board.