Quote Originally Posted by Sylkis View Post
The game I talked about forced it down to trades and even PVP drops (when you died you lost your items to the opponent - a form of trading). You could not buy or sell the item for a different value other than what the system said. People found workarounds, people complained as it affected other parts of the game.

As for the first part of your question, it depends. I will usually sell at a constant price but will reduce/not sell at all if there are many identical items selling. If I am selling a few and they are selling many then yes, I will undercut. It's not exciting, but necessary.

I think that most people will agree that undercutting is necessary if we want to sell an item quickly, and that there is nothing fun about it.

I think they forced the system too excessively. So long as you can get the majority to willingly use the system I think the market battle has been won.

Those who want to doctor up their own style will have to do so without a structure to support continuous sells (offline selling through market), also assuming you actually ban spamming in inappropriate channels (spam bots).