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Originally Posted by Dunes
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The Bazaar completely altered the forced interaction and haggling that makes the EQ economy so much fun...You will still have the exact same number of slimy reseller folk with the bazaar. In fact, its easier for them to do so when prices are listed and so many more items are on the market at any given time (AFK selling).
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Not exactly. Re-sellers have to commit a lot harder in the bazaar. A lot more sellers of the same items will be in the market, so they'd have to buy *all* of the same item on the market to do so. This isn't even an option for Lore items, so controlling the market on those types of items is really hard in a bazaar system.
On the p99 model, frequently only one of most mid/high-end items is sold at any given time, and if you don't want to wait forever or simply post in the forums to wait for a better price, you have to use that re-seller's service. The very reason they exist is because the system is inefficient and you can catch people simply wanting to sell low and get back to
*playing the game*.
Haggling is anachronistic when information is aplenty. It's actually much more efficient in the bazaar since sellers
must have an asking price (personal favorite feature of mine) and therefore *must* be aware of what other sellers are
substantively asking for the same item (as opposed to merely advertising higher prices and expecting people to offer less), instead of checking ahungry.com logs and adding 10% and playing meaningless games.
In other words, the bazaar's system does the haggling for you. If I want to haggle, I'll go to craigslist. Not EQ.
Also, the bazaar actually creates a market for low end items while increasing their availability. Tons of <150p items that new folks want get vendored constantly simply because rational individuals don't want to waste hours attempting to sell them. It's incredibly annoying sometimes to try to find low-end items - reasonably so, no one wants to sit in EC and auction or update EC forum threads incessantly for minimal gain.
The bazaar is a net positive. Yes, it reduces direct p2p interaction. Yes, it creates a bot culture (if one doesn't already exist in EC). But speaking in terms of custom Luclin content, having a bazaar-like area near shady in the EC tunnel is something I would push for.