oh god the undercutting

[AgemFrostMage]

Still it's better than the resellers. In other games where you must be present in your booth to sell things people can haggle prices down. Back to the resellers: They buy out stores then resell everything at a much higher price. In this other game resellers destroyed the economy. Item mall stuff was expensive there and anyone with $55 US can buy a sword from the mall and sell it for almost max player gold limit (bank limit is much higher). Then, the cheaper stuff skyrockets too. Then everyone else must sell at a higher price from the armor and weapons they make which has a high fail % without books (purchased from said mall) just to buy from the resellers. That game made it impossible to be a free player either buy from the item mall with real money or always be poor.

[BIG OLAF]

Why would undercutting ever be a bad thing? Ok, you might not get as much for your stuff, but you aren't paying as much for other stuff either.

...because some people sell more than buy? Undercutting was infuriating on PSU, and it's just as much so now.

"lolol let me price stuff 1 meseta lower aguehueguehuegue"

[o0Kais0o]

...Why are people complaining about this, frankly some prices are beyond stupid. People in MMOs are far to concerned about their pretend money these days.

[gigawuts]

Why would undercutting ever be a bad thing? Ok, you might not get as much for your stuff, but you aren't paying as much for other stuff either.

Under no circumstance can I ever see this being a bad thing. It means everyone can get their hands on some nice stuff, provided they can buy it if they don't have premium.

Because common, low value things will crumble and rarer, higher value things will not.

Mass undercutting is bad for a stable economy. If people are uncertain about what they'll be able to get, instead of seeing maybe 100 items at 50k-44k you'll be seeing 50 items at 50k-25k. This...is not good. All it takes is 1-2 people doing affixing to clear the market in that case, and since people know the price is low they'll be less likely to check to see if it's high enough to sell at a good value yet.

So yes. Mass undercutting is in fact very bad, for more reasons than just this, for the seller and the buyer.

...Why are people complaining about this, frankly some prices are beyond stupid. People in MMOs are far to concerned about their pretend money these days.

Your "pretend" money is directly translated to real time and real effort that you exert.

So unless the time you spend on this game to get it are also pretend, well, your video game money isn't pretend either.

[AgemFrostMage]

In Guild Wars 2 they always undercut whereas Wonderland Online in Cancer server at least was destroyed by resellers. Both are bad in extremes.

[Reiketsu]

I have no idea what you're talking about, everything's expensive as fuck, lol

[Z-0]

Depends what you call expensive as fuck. There's a few expensive items (LA41, Student Replica), but most of it is hovering around 1 million or less, which isn't much these days.

[Shinmarizu]

Those Student S Repcas are going near 5 mill at the moment. If what Zynetic said was true a few hours ago, I would have made a killing right about now.

Good thing I'm not interested in most of the expensive items in this rotation.

[Aine]

The economy is actually pretty balanced because of importers/exporters. If resellers try to monopolize something and hike up prices, importers will bring in stock from other servers and undercut the resellers.

[Shinmarizu]

Maybe so, but the average price of those items will steadily increase while this happens. The selling price only settles down or stabilizes long after the initial release. This also only works as long as there is supply; as in either Sega revives a given AC item or people resort to the AC scratch to attempt to get one of their own to sell.