Possible TC Change
That’s just a poor decision on the sellers’ part (unless the item was crafted for leveling). I am by no means an economist but everyone is just caring about short term gains and undercutting people by 1c instead of making long term coin. If there is an item crafters can make (exotics) that is desired then THEY are responsible for setting it at a price that makes sense to mass produce given the prices of ori/ancient wood/etc.
It’s also worth noting that quite a lot of crafted items actually come out of the Mystic Forge, and not from crafting.
If you hope to reduce supply by making something server-only, keep in mind that you also reduce demand by a similar amount.
If anyone can find anything that you can actually make a profit off of by crafting instead of just selling the mats by themselves, please point me to said item. The most I’ve found I can make out of any of my crafts is a few silver, if I’m lucky, for something that costs 50s-1g, and even those are starting to drop below the profitable point.
I get that people want to sell things so they undercut but anyone that actually wants to make any form of gold off of crafting is screwed as there is just no way to do it. If you go out to gather all the mats yourself to craft the item it seems like you’re making gold but when you can sell the mats for twice the price to craft then just buy the item for half the cost then it’s kinda stupid. If you want to post it for a price where you’re going to make a return on your investment that item is just never going to sell and wills it on the TC until the game servers are closed down.
If anyone can find anything that you can actually make a profit off of by crafting instead of just selling the mats by themselves, please point me to said item. The most I’ve found I can make out of any of my crafts is a few silver, if I’m lucky, for something that costs 50s-1g, and even those are starting to drop below the profitable point.
I get that people want to sell things so they undercut but anyone that actually wants to make any form of gold off of crafting is screwed as there is just no way to do it. If you go out to gather all the mats yourself to craft the item it seems like you’re making gold but when you can sell the mats for twice the price to craft then just buy the item for half the cost then it’s kinda stupid. If you want to post it for a price where you’re going to make a return on your investment that item is just never going to sell and wills it on the TC until the game servers are closed down.
^ This, crafting is useless for making money at this point in the market. Your better off just buying and selling mats.
The game market is depreciating imo. Everybody can gather everything, world wide economy, to much supply and nobody willing to spend as much money. The amount of supply of product being produced is higher then the gold being produced.
Hopefully A.Net will do something about this and decrease the cost of Gold from Gems, or increase monetary drops from events, mobs, chests, etc…. The economy is almost 2 months old and its depreciating. Bad sign imo.
I finally went ahead and maxed out my Tailoring as I did some maths and I could make a slight profit off of some of the exotic armor. I was able to make about 5 silver on a Berserker’s chest piece once, now the cost of said chest piece has been undercut to the point where it’s a net loss of 20 silver. Took less than 12 hours for that. Bags cost more to craft then they are actually worth as well.
So that means Tailoring is now useless to make any gold, JC is worthless to make any gold, Cooking is worthless to make any gold. I’m sure every other profession is useless for making gold as well but I’m not going to waste another ~5g to have absolutely no return on my investment.