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So, with the most recent post about even more weapons being banned on the flea market, I think it's really just about time that we start accepting the fact that the Flea Market causes more issues than it fixes.

Pretty much everyone I know uses the Flea Market for 3 things: Barters for really rare keys, buying stuff to upgrade hideout and weapon attachments on rare occasion.

There's pretty much little to no reason anymore to even get excited about finding a super rare key since the flea tax for almost all of them is so absurd that you can only barter it for things like GPU's or other quest keys. Mostly other quest keys, since for some reason we can't get barters for keys on quests that don't even give more than 10k XP.

Buying things for hideout does make it easier, but honestly it really isn't even that hard to find all that stuff anymore, especially with Lighthouse and the Customs expansion making hideout loot extremely accessible.

And weapon parts are rarely ever worth actually buying from the market since, more often than not, any good attachment is going to be 3-4x higher than the base price that the trader is selling it for. It'd be far more excited to just find those things in raid and know that it's damn rare, that you actually worked for it to be able to use it.

Lastly, and the most obvious one, every single trick that BSG has done to try and curb 'them' has just not been working. The Flea Market's existence in it of itself will always be a profit hub for 'them' and is arguably the number 1 reason why they do what they do to begin with.

I genuinely think that, at this point, with how many things we need to ban just to get the flea market to even work properly, it just isn't worth the hassle. Bring back the old days of folks working for their loot. We're only going to see more and more flea market bans as time goes on as 'they' keep finding workarounds.