First, i need to clear myself first, i have no problem to buy & sell at any point.
But i still feel the market is broken lol.
Also you already point out the problem, everything now is extremely cheap.
Its way to cheap at any items…
The only a few items now have value i can already list them all here.
Hoper trophy around 3500 c - 4500 c / unit
Wildstock trophy around 1000 - 1500c / unit
Road runner trophy should be the most expansive materials in the game so far i guess.
Oortstone 150 - 190 c / unit
Forge gear around 12k - 20k
Advance power coil now only 2500c - 3900c lol
I mean really ? As you can see only Forge gear can sell over 10k / unit.
Right now only thing worth in market is forge gears…
Basically other things are same as dirt lol.
Base on the example you mention "simmering orbs"
I can get 900 in one persisting pie.
Its even easier than i go out and collect the fibrous leaf and inky leaf….
The healthy market shouldn’t only allow one type of business.
I mean if you take looks all the reason all the trophy still remain these price is because forge ingredients.
All the eye / sac are still worth price is because of forge ingredient as well.
Other materials not related to forge system are simply just garbage with extremely low price
Of course you spend more time to grind like 10x amount of number than before you still get good money.
For example before i only need to sell 1 advance power coil i earn 17k - 20k . Now i need to sell 7 power coil to get the same result.
The current market really can’t prevent someone keep lowering the market price.
The forge system is way too easy for everything. It cause some players become very rich. Also money become not necessary for them as well.
As result, making 10k / day is no more different for them as making 1k /day.
This why they acting like you who keep lowering the market price for a lot of items.
If one day power coils drop to 1000c or 500c, i won’t be too surprise lol.
Forge gear will be the next product to drop price.
People now are able to forge their own tools, and they all want a forge gear shop
(Because this is only business worth to spend time on it)
When demand drop, and more players involve + this is super easy to achieve.
This game will have nothing worth at that moment.
Money will become completely pointless in the game.
Even now if one guy wants to lower the forge tools to 1000c, and the owner + their group can fill up the shop daily. The new forge gear price will become 1000c.
Unless you can buy all the forge items in his shop and sell it higher at your shop.
But it really depends on their ability too. Maybe they can fill up with the speed before you burn out all your money.
Can other people fill the shop with that kind of speed ?
Maybe yes and maybe no. But they all need to be force to agree the new price.
As you said "We should lower the price, our pricing was too expansive"
Basically its what happened for Advance power coils in last month.
Experienced players, groups they kept lowering the pricing.
They can fill up the shop very fast.
But if new or mid game players want to do the same type of business, can they fill it with this speed too?
Maybe their gem grind rate is around 150 -250 unit / hour, and they may spend couple hours for a 1000c / unit income.
For experienced players its 1 hour work for 1000c x 25 income.
For new or mid players it will be like 4 - 5 hour work for 1000c x 25 income.
Basically they lost the chance to get involve to the market anymore.
They can only switch the other business type to making their money, but that maybe not the game content they enjoy most.
This why i keep mention the market is broken.
Right now is on the edge. People start to feel it, this why those topic keep coming out.
If the current situation keep happening in next 1- 2 month.
The entire market will be totally no function.
This game is not like other mmorpg. End game players still has the gears (legendary gears) they really want to buy.
Money still has meaning for them. Maybe they won’t care about the difference between 100c and 1000c. But they will still care about 10k to 100k difference or 100k to 1m’s difference.
So they won’t keep lowering the price by a lot of weird reason like providing a better environment for new players…etc
They still need their money to buy the thing they need. Sometimes they may spend all the money they have just for 1 valuable gear.