Skye Wrote:Actually, the way the Auction House worked in FFXI, was that it didn't show prices.
You'd just have to guess your bid, if it was too low, you wouldn't get the item, if too high, well you just lost some extra gil.
Yeah. I played FFXI for about seven years. XD
But prices were shown in FFXI, and it only aided the RMT in their conquest early on in the game. It showed how much people recently paid, and that served to create a median point for most items. Sure there was the occasional item that sold extremely low, or really high, but it all usually evened out around a price range. Plus, since it was a single auction house, it was a single tool that every player used, and gave RMT the ability to attempt to take control, what with their constant camping of NMs (Up until SE finally made changes to most major NM drops.) to monopolize the selling of major items. They ended up assisting in the inflation of several important items.
There would be no "single" tool for the RMT to control if there were no auction house in FFXIV. They would be hard pressed to hold monopoly over several dozen individual vendors. The search function i'm talking about would just allow players to know the item is out there, and in what ward. Not which individual person is selling it, or the price.
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