Helps players how by devaluing every item that someone can sell to make AD from. Sure some undercutting is fine but when the undercutter has no worries of a posting penalty then they do it to control the market and spite others. Just like wallmart sure cost of items goes down but so does salary for the players/workers that sell items at auction house.
Because the value of an item is, and always will be, only what someone is willing to pay for it. Not necessarily the over-inflated price someone slapped on it.
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What they should do to remedy a lot of issues in the game is have the prices fluctuate based on availability. They should do exactly what Black desert does, everything has a low and high pricing where if the market is saturated, the price droops and the complete opposite if rare.
The way the player market is manipulated and controlled in this game is rediculous (no wonder the AD/Gold sellers are happy and profitting).
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Except this already happens, if there are a lot of a particular item available the price will drop as more people post items, undercutting each other in the process. I was reading an article earlier about the pricing of the purple angel companion, apparently the first one sold for 20 million AD, now they are considerably cheaper as there are tons of the available with new ones being awarded daily.
Honestly, I have no idea how or why the developers of a game would decide the value of an item for the player base. The players are the ones selling the items, you would think then it would be up to the players to determine the prices. What issues do you think fixing the AH prices would solve anyways?
Controlling the AH is pretty much worthless except for short terms, the AH is used by every player of the game, except Russia and China, not just players on your particular server. Sure, someone who has a LOT of AD could potentially buy out all the auctions for a particular item, however, they can't really continue to do that over a long period of time.
As previously mentioned, one way to thwart gold sellers would be to adopt the concept of blind auctions, neither buyers nor sellers knows the identity of the other thus making it considerably harder for the goldsellers to move their AD to the correct buyers.
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klangeddinMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 882Arc User
edited August 2016
It's the free market, deal with it. Some people simply value the time return (ie get AD asap) over the quantity and don't care about losing a few ADs if they're guaranteed to sell it as fast as possible. Undercutting is also a mechanicsm that can drive the price down if done by plenty of actors, and this is a positive thing for buyers.
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kreatyveMember, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 10,545Community Moderator
And I believe this thread has ran it's course, as it's getting dangerously into flame territory. Sorry everyone.
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The way the player market is manipulated and controlled in this game is rediculous (no wonder the AD/Gold sellers are happy and profitting).
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Honestly, I have no idea how or why the developers of a game would decide the value of an item for the player base. The players are the ones selling the items, you would think then it would be up to the players to determine the prices. What issues do you think fixing the AH prices would solve anyways?
Controlling the AH is pretty much worthless except for short terms, the AH is used by every player of the game, except Russia and China, not just players on your particular server. Sure, someone who has a LOT of AD could potentially buy out all the auctions for a particular item, however, they can't really continue to do that over a long period of time.
As previously mentioned, one way to thwart gold sellers would be to adopt the concept of blind auctions, neither buyers nor sellers knows the identity of the other thus making it considerably harder for the goldsellers to move their AD to the correct buyers.
Some people simply value the time return (ie get AD asap) over the quantity and don't care about losing a few ADs if they're guaranteed to sell it as fast as possible.
Undercutting is also a mechanicsm that can drive the price down if done by plenty of actors, and this is a positive thing for buyers.
Any of my comments not posted in orange are based on my own personal opinion and not official.
Any messages written in orange are official moderation messages. Signature images are now fixed!