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Lol. A lot of our issues would be solved if there was a simple, effective, and reliable way for buyers and sellers to communicate with each other. Like other people here have said, personal shops are inconvenient for both buyers and sellers and not everyone is willing to deal with the hassle for the chance that something MIGHT sell, or you MIGHT find the item you want at a POSSIBLY reasonable price. That's why even if an item isn't considered rare in the playerbase, it might be in the market since only a small percentage of players who are willing to sell that item will list it in a party ad or shop, and you also have to be in the right place at the right time to even learn of that item's existence in so-and-so's shop in the first place. What we need is a universal auction system or housing board where everyone can view and list items. That would gather everything for sale in ONE place and most of the prices would as a result stabilize. A "forced" price control on items would never work as there are countless ways around that and it would just serve to skew the market even further. It'll drive prices higher by taking things out of circulation as people deem harvesting or selling those items not worth it, and people would just start trading checks instead of using shops or other means to sell their things.
Not really sure what the poll question is asking, I think those two things are interrelated. The issue with the mabi market that is causing the dramatic price variations (and sometimes fluctuations between the same item) is due to our small playerbase, lack of demand for any items that are not the latest fad (Eg. Tails, halos, wings etc), and our lack of a centralized market system. While housing somewhat aims to address that issue, it is only available to the small percentage of players willing to spend NX on service every month. So you end up with sellers that are unsure of where or how to price their items because they have nothing to compare it to other than the "things they hear", which may or may not be true or reliable information, and the one person that is able to buy housing lists their item for 10m because nobody else is selling and they don't know either. In the end people are forced to price it at whatever they want because there is no established baseline for most of the items in the game because of both the lack of supply AND demand.
