Guild Wars 2

it sucks out loud. FiFo might be fair but, good lord things are getting undercut instantly.
Plz re-break the system, with the change even more people are undercutting for 2+copper a listing.

Part of this is because the prices are showing incorrectly.

What all the undercutting is saying is that the current prices for the item(s) in question are too high for the market to bare. So prices will come down. All FIFO does is make this process faster.

If the market could bare the higher price, then your listings would still sell. You’d just have to wait for the undercutters to sell.

The GW2 economy has one major problem: Most items never get destroyed. Meaning that once you buy enough of them, you don’t want them again. When most people don’t want them, demand crashes and so does the price. If nobody wants the end results, crafting materials will suffer the same fate.

The only things that won’t crash quickly are things involving material used in legendary weapons, and only because the legendary weapons use a lot of them.

Consumables are different, though. There will always be a demand for consumables.

lackofcheese.5617:

Consumables are different, though. There will always be a demand for consumables.

Well, some consumables will be. Like food.

Other, like dye, will suffer the same deflation as equipment.

Yeah, true. I mostly had food in mind when I said it, though it applies to potions as well.

anyone ever gonna explain what fifo and fofa and fufu means?

FIFO and LIFO are the 2 common ones, first in first out and last in first out.

As in, are the oldest or newest orders of a specific price being filled first.