Why do people insist on killing prices?

i don't do it for any altruistic reason, i just like knowing that i make people like you grind their teeth to nubs in frustration. for some reason, it makes me happy

I personally like the guys who tradespam items for 10k more than they're priced on the GTN. Get a commitment, buy from GTN, resell, profit.

Doesn't seem like fun to me but if that's how they get their kicks, great!

Yes it is in this case.

You are taking the money other people worked on to get (by questing for instance). The difference of cred between the cost of production (mats, etc) and the profit is imaginary in this game. You just think you are entitled to get some money from someone else because you did it.

We could all just get money from selling stuff at cost + questing/dailying. Like I do, and I am never lacking money.


It is also cool to sell stuff cheap or just plain give them away. Makes you feel happy more people are getting otherwise expensive goodies and experiencing more the game.



But enough of my MMO-adapted Marxism.

WaldoA, since the material costs of making an augment is around 45,000 credits, you're still making 100% profit even if you have to lower your selling cost to 90k. If this kind of profit margin isn't high enough for you, then your choices are:

* Get out of the market all together.
* Find another market which has margins that are closer to your liking
* Learn to accept the situation as is.

The market on augments right now is very saturated, so in all likelihood you can expect the price to continue to drop. This is basic free market economics.

I undercut people all the time and love it when they rage about it (not saying OP is raging). Once there was a dude that did that on the LotRO forums and made the mistake of having his name and server listed. ROFL needless to say, people went out of their way to undercut anything he tried to sell.

Bottom line is...who cares? What are you going to do with all that fake money? Not like this is EVE where you can buy game time with it.

I know right?

In the sense that exploiting is necessarily breaking the rules of the game or hacking the game's software for one's own benefit, and posting for whatever price I want in the GTN does neither of those, I don't see how it's exploiting.

But OK.

I don't know that I'm "entitled" to anything. What I do know is that if I make something that adds value to another player's game experience, it sure would be nice if that player in return could add value to my own game experience. The market enables him do that by increasing my net worth just a little bit, and if I do that for enough players, I can do something else nice for myself like buy better gear or a pretty color crystal or a phat vehicle or something from another player, and thereby increase his enjoyment of the game in the same way!

Be careful of your terminology use. Exploiting is a very specific thing in an MMORPG setting, and you are using it incorrectly.

Exploiting has a semantic value that means what I am saying.

If also means hacking and stuff in MMO, not my fault.

Like those guys who rant when we call ourselves Americans. We are Americans, but Americans can also mean people from the whole continent

But indeed, mods can be rather jumpy. I'll be more careful.

Why is that bad?

Why is your price correct and others lower price not correct?

What you really are asking for is for all the suppliers of a product to collude together in order to charge the absolute maximum price that the market will tolerate (or your own version of that price). AKA collusion.

It's illegal in any fair market that I am aware of and it doesn't work in an mmo economy either.