Quote Originally Posted by Steggun View Post
Anyone that claims that the market wards can't be manipulated is being delusional, all it takes is enough money and the knowhow. Believe me RMT aren't the only ones that will be manipulating the MW and/or AH, there is no way around that.

The market wards are not even being used as intended (no one rents stalls). It was a cool idea to let the players have their own store fronts, but an impractical one. When and if this game gets more players there is no way the market wards will be able to handle all those retainers, whether they are renting stalls or not.
This too. If you have money you can manipulate any market. Its easy to monopolize in FFXIV if you guys can't see it yet. As RMT, say I was selling a high end gear, call it "Haubergeon" - I look up all those selling it on the market and i find that the market price is sitting at around 200K-400K...its easy to buy them all out (as long as I have gil and god knows its easy to make gil in this game) and post everything back up at 2M+ if I so desired. Considering there is no trust busting laws in Eorzea as there is in good old America (although I'm not so sure how lawful the market has been IRL) there is nothing anyone can do about it. SE can't ban RMT for monopolizing but they can ban them for selling gil and well...they're good at hiding their tracks.

What SE envisioned was what we got initially with the market wards, no search, no stars, nothing! you walk around and you cross your fingers. THAT is the best way to avoid monopolization and the best way to dilute the game of RMTs. Sorry guys, defend it all you want but if your reason is that it helps get rid of RMT then you're wrong. In fact, I'm thinking of indulging in RMT in this game considering how easy it is to make gil and how willing people are to buy it....you wanna get rid of RMT? stop buying gil - but give us a fun game to play.

I will admit, the MW have some merit to them, despite me coming down hard on them lately *but* there is nothing here that can't be mirrored in an AH and done better at that. SE knows this and I bet an AH is coming because I don't even think they know how they'll handle more players later down the road when it comes to MW.