Been trying to sell stuff for some time and I've noticed a few things wrong with this games economy.
-The game allows server hopping, robbing players on current servers the opportunity to make money selling items to their fellow server mates. Most games dont allow this for this exact reason. It moves money off server onto another economy, resulting in a crash (which I've seen happen over the past week)
-Undercutting of epic proportions. I've played the auction house game on tons of video games and I've never seen undercutting this bad. I'll list 20 items and when I come back hours later, someone has undercut my price on every single item. I cant be on 24/7 to keep adjusting, and sometimes its not even worth adjusting anymore because the items deflate way below their actual value
-Undercutting so bad that items end up deflating to prices so low that you cant acquire any real money selling them anymore. I watched an item go from 90k to 5k in a week because so many players undercut each other infinitely.
Maybe I'm just being a noob, but this seems like a severe problem. In the last week or 2 I've seen a severe market crash on my server across the board. It's made it stupidly hard to make any money. The only items that seem to sell well are ones that are a pain to craft. I've tried selling everything from crafted items to map drops. And they just sit on AH forever because people are too cheap to pay the server price, and go off server instead. In a game where people have billions, its pretty unfair to new players to not give them the chance at getting some of that money.
And I do realize there are niche items that do sell pretty well, but it just shouldnt be this hard
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-The game allows server hopping, robbing players on current servers the opportunity to make money selling items to their fellow server mates. Most games dont allow this for this exact reason. It moves money off server onto another economy, resulting in a crash (which I've seen happen over the past week)
-Undercutting of epic proportions. I've played the auction house game on tons of video games and I've never seen undercutting this bad. I'll list 20 items and when I come back hours later, someone has undercut my price on every single item. I cant be on 24/7 to keep adjusting, and sometimes its not even worth adjusting anymore because the items deflate way below their actual value
-Undercutting so bad that items end up deflating to prices so low that you cant acquire any real money selling them anymore. I watched an item go from 90k to 5k in a week because so many players undercut each other infinitely.
Maybe I'm just being a noob, but this seems like a severe problem. In the last week or 2 I've seen a severe market crash on my server across the board. It's made it stupidly hard to make any money. The only items that seem to sell well are ones that are a pain to craft. I've tried selling everything from crafted items to map drops. And they just sit on AH forever because people are too cheap to pay the server price, and go off server instead. In a game where people have billions, its pretty unfair to new players to not give them the chance at getting some of that money.
And I do realize there are niche items that do sell pretty well, but it just shouldnt be this hard
Continue reading...