i play EQ2 and love it, but I have always been a little disappointed with the Broker.
I tried WoW for a few months, and I think that I prefer their Auction house to the EQ2 broker.
With the Broker, as you explain above, everyone is trying to undercut everyone else. Why? because while you need to sell for a decent amount, if you are charging more than everyone else, you won't sell anything. So to sell anything at all you need to make sure that your price is below everyone elses (or at least near the bottom of the price list)
EQ2 is a Buyer's Market.
With WoW they have the auction system. The price of your product is always changing because, well, it's an auction. With EQ2 the seller has to constantly recheck their items to ensure they aren't pricing themselves out of the market. With WoW the BUYER has to recheck the items they are interested in to ensure they get what they want. The market fluctuates much much more dynamically for each item. The fairness of what you made off an item was easier because the market decided whether an item would sell for high or low. This made it very difficult to be constantly undercut (unless someone set a ridiculously low buynow price).
While I can't really complain about the Broker in EQ2 too much, I do have to say, a auction system seems to benefit everyone more. While the broker system seems to only benefit the buyer
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Date: 2007-12-13 02:13 pm (UTC)I tried WoW for a few months, and I think that I prefer their Auction house to the EQ2 broker.
With the Broker, as you explain above, everyone is trying to undercut everyone else. Why? because while you need to sell for a decent amount, if you are charging more than everyone else, you won't sell anything. So to sell anything at all you need to make sure that your price is below everyone elses (or at least near the bottom of the price list)
EQ2 is a Buyer's Market.
With WoW they have the auction system. The price of your product is always changing because, well, it's an auction. With EQ2 the seller has to constantly recheck their items to ensure they aren't pricing themselves out of the market. With WoW the BUYER has to recheck the items they are interested in to ensure they get what they want. The market fluctuates much much more dynamically for each item. The fairness of what you made off an item was easier because the market decided whether an item would sell for high or low. This made it very difficult to be constantly undercut (unless someone set a ridiculously low buynow price).
While I can't really complain about the Broker in EQ2 too much, I do have to say, a auction system seems to benefit everyone more. While the broker system seems to only benefit the buyer