2014-01-03, 11:20 PM
kayeyearekay Wrote:late to the thread but caught up on most of the (main) details. the fm site, while not malicious in intent, is something that real markets do for customers. Economics calls it a "Perfect Information" system that allows customers to choose the best product for the lowest price.
think about progressive, or all state insurance companies, and how they let you see and compare prices on the spot. the site will help to stabilize prices of items already being sold. sure, it will help people undercut profits, but that is already being done. in ymck, before black friday stores expired, it took me almost an hour to check every shop for prices. that site, while breaking the tos via bot, scrub or w/e else, is, as it stands, not hurtful to the game at all. In a few minutes, i can search up my items and price them against similar items. Or i can search for that ONE THING i really need (purple powders o.o?) without needing to spend time in every single shop looking for the best price.
Yes, but you have to remember that the market in an online game is not going to end up the same as one in real life. There are more controls available in an online market, and the existence of the online market itself is a profit motive for Nexon. They sell owls, remember. Nexon doesn't reap monetary benefit from the meso price, they reap a benefit from the existence of market activity.