Why people are so crazy with GTN prices ?

Simple solution; Make stuff for your own characters, or farm FPs on your 50 for mods to send via legacy to your alts.

I don't buy much of anything from the GTN anymore, not when I can make, or farm, all the armorings, mods, enhancements, earpieces, and implants that I need for myself.

Even a brand new player could keep himself in armorings, and mods as he levels without buying any material from the GTN. They just have to keep the crewskill missions running fairly often.

You have to be really clueless to spend a ton of credits on materials you can easily get yourself.

The high end 50 pieces are another story.

If Bioware would increase the amount of mat's you get per harvest node prices would drop a lot, but as long as your only getting on average 2 mats per node prices are going to stay high for materials.

It's not fun riding around in circles waiting for nodes to spawn so you can harvest them, it's pretty damn boring and then the fact you get such a pitiful amount per node...

Even sending out companions gets stupid at higher levels, takes them like 45-60 mins to come back with 2-3 materials plus the mission usally costs 1k-2k to run it...

Bioware has done everything they can to gimp crafting.... They prefer if you just live off the quest rewards...

Devils Advocate: If crafted items (especially purples) were easy to craft and the market was flooded with them so people could buy them cheap it would mess up the PvE balance. Anyone who has geared themselves up with all purple crafted gear knows what a huge advantage it gives you PvE'ing.

That means the alt-market is operating at a higher demand than the main-market, nothing more.

Because the GTN economy is crap, crafting system is nearly broken, and we gotsta make monies somehow!

The problem with that is, that's bordering between insider trade and actual speculation. In market as limited as the GTN it is entirely possible for a relatively limited group of suppliers, to control the entire supply, especially if they are already rich.

If a group of people with relatively much money has the opinion that a certain good should have a certain price, they can easily enforce that price regardless of how big the real supply is, and therefore a true balance of supply and demand does not come to pass.

Now that doesn't mean I am blaming anyone for playing their cards right, even though I am at times pretty frustrated as well, I am just saying that it's certainly anything but a healthy market and a natural balance of supply and demand. Suppliers have no interest in low prices and keeping the prices up is all too easy, because the market can be controlled particularly wealthy suppliers.

The problem is in part the intransperency of the market. If an offerer could see what an item is usually traded for they would offer it for only slightly less, so that such transactions would not be worthwhile, because the market fees would become more expensive than the possible gain. And in that way, the price of a product would slowly level itself to a true balance betwenn supply and demand.

The other problem is of course that the respective markets are very limited. If SW:TOR had a single server approach with no separation between factions when it comes to the GTN, prices would have developed completely differently and would have been a lot cheaper in many cases, because there would have been too much supply to control it.

I would say a combination of greed and testing the market to see how far it can go.

Greed. Definitely greed. I know at least that it's that for me.

I log in, put 50 items on the GTN between gifts, scavenging metals, droid parts, ship parts, UT metals, gathering missions and recipes, all of this for around 10-20% more than what it is already being selled.

The next morning i sold 40-45% of it.
Undercutting is the enemy of a good credit influx and i love credits.

Edit: Also if you see all the items being sold at around 5k and then 2-3 at 2,2k, you don't base your prices on those, you base your prices on the 5k ones and sell at either 4.9k or 6k. Don't make that mistake please.

everybody on mmos especially, are crazy

We just don't think we are crazy cause we are all playing together!!



That was a joke for those who are sensitive

If you don't like the prices don't buy the item. People will sell things for what they feel they are worth. If it is an item that is a pain in the *** to get (some of the scavenging items come to mind) then the value of that item is higher then say an easy item to get (like a green color crystal). The OP's own post proves that the things are valuable because he says he himself can't get enough of it. If you things fast you have to pay the price. Just like anything else.

Yes. This is a problem MMO's shouldn't run into for years. Months is indicative of a non-functional economy, and a ridiculously easy game, but that's another matter.