Market Area Improvements discussion

[Sephrick]

[dev1359] Market Area Improvements

* The following adjustments, scheduled for patch 1.22, are in development and subject to change.

Patch 1.22 will introduce a number of improvements to market areas.
The following locations will be added to each city’s market area:
Limsa Lominsa Mercantile House
Gridania Mercantile House
Ul’dah Mercantile House
In addition, the current item search feature will be moved to the locations mentioned above, and will take place through designated NPCs.　This change will allow players to directly purchase items from any city’s market area.　For example, a player in Gridania would be able to search for and purchase items from the Ul’dah market area by speaking with an NPC in the Ul’dah Mercantile House.

“Market Guide” NPCs will be added:

In addition to using the existing market area entrances, players will be able to speak with “market guides” around town to travel directly to each Mercantile House.

It will now be possible to search retainer wares by typing item names into the search field.
* Search results will show all items that start with the entered term.


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Epic effin win

[AlaulaTheGreat]

Gah, finally, saved me a trip to Uldah, now I can stay in limsa and grind on crafted mats...

But this makes me wonder... will this move people out of Uldah? If that's what they're planning they're dead wrong.

[Raldo]

An improvement, to be sure, but it is still sad that the markets are still accessed separately. I think that's due to "server limitations", however.

[DeadRiser]

I am soooo glad that this is being added before 2.0. Yay SE yay!

[Airget]

The ability to search by name is a nice addition as well, it should make it much easier to find items rather then having to press each button then scroll down the list.

[Antanias]

This.....is awesome news

[sorahitoshi]

Itcool don't have to run corn zone to zone

[Alerith]

Gah, finally, saved me a trip to Uldah, now I can stay in limsa and grind on crafted mats...

But this makes me wonder... will this move people out of Uldah? If that's what they're planning they're dead wrong.

Nah, the problem with the huge player concentration in Ul'dah is that there is no "central", non-starter city for everyone to flock to like Jeuno or Aht Urghan in XI. It's gonna take an unaligned, centralized city to get a lot of people out of Ul'dah.

Depending on multiple airship routes, Ishgard should become the new hangout for everyone, especially if it's going to have it's own Aetheryte plaza.

[NefarioCall]

Brilliant.

[TheVedis]

Nice

but i predict people will still complain cuz people dont want to buy from grid/LL now cuz they will get taxed for use of the item search menu....

cuz you know, there always has to be something to complain about