Crafting and the Economy

Crafting and the Economy

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Posted by: denDAY.9650

denDAY.9650

So this has been on my mind for a few days and have no decided to bring it to the forums. Something needs to change if crafting is to continue as a viable method of making money. I don’t want to spend my time farming or playing the TP in order to get money so please listen in.

I never really gave the listing fee much thought when I posted things on the TP, but yesterday i suddenly realized that it actually cuts my profit from my jewelry in half? What does that leave me with? A profit of roughly 5% of the price I listed the items for. In the retail world that would be considered a full loss where you aim for a profit of 20%+ and tell you what; when you use 2g+ on mats for ONE item it is rather risky to go for a profit of 10 to 15 silver.

So what can be done? The obvious problem is that people don’t realize how little money they make as I expect the minority of crafters to actually have spreadsheets to plot their profit, so a method that makes it clear to people how little they actually make. Either that or take away the taxes on craftings or at least lower the 10% sell-fee to something more reasonable.

I don’t want to play a risky game of chess when I spend over 2 gold of money only to see a puny profit of 10 silver yet risk that some uninformed and careless player lists the items lower and draws down the buy-line to a place where you lose money and where I to follow and list the item once more I would already be in negative income due to listing fee.

So please do something about this ANet.

Crafting and the Economy

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Posted by: skotie.2614

skotie.2614

Only just started playing the game and have already seen what your talking about. Seems like it almost just a waste of time to craft or even sell mats so far on this game, then again how else is there to make money? Only 55 atm maybe things go a bit faster at 80 I dunno but I’m honestly starting to ask myself why I should stick around.

It feels like they made it hard to make gold on purpose and while they may claim its to prevent gold selling there sure are enough sites out there offering gold still, hell they sell gold off the store if you buy gems and trade them in for gold. Guess this is one of those drawbacks with free to play.