Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

I think a good solution would be to eliminate the market wards area, use that area for "personal housing" since no one wants to call it a mog house. Allow us to summon and interact with our retainers in our "personal housing" and when you enter that area you have the option of going to your space or searching retainers and making a purchase that would be delivered to your housing area. The only thing I'm on the fence about is history, while extremely handy for making sure you are getting a good price, does allow for a lot more manipulation of the system and the economy.

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Originally Posted by RabidSquirrel

Can an item search let me put an item up for sale without having to deal with the dumb chore of placing a retainer in a ward?

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I don't know if anyone's said this before, but it bears repeating if it has: The wards constrict the ability to sell HQ items of high value when the wards already have 20+ sellers of the same item. There is no possible way to know that the item is being sold at all without going to each and every ward and checking all the sellers while having no guarantee that an HQ might be in there anywhere.

The wards seem to be packed full of retainers. It lags in there. I wish for a functional AH that does not cause me to lag as much.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

AH is useless.Item search can be made to do everything that AH can do, and more.

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You sound like one of those vinylist that keep whining that LPs are better then CD/DVD/DAT/MP3.

There will be an auction house...

Proof: http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...22c5f89aafed71

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Originally Posted by RahJah

The wards seem to be packed full of retainers. It lags in there. I wish for a functional AH that does not cause me to lag as much.

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This would be far less of a problem if people would just spread out and quit acting as though Ul'dah is the only place in the game you can put a retainer/do quests.

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Originally Posted by Ceons

There will be an auction house...

Proof: http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...22c5f89aafed71

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Oh dear, both the NA and JP playerbase want the same thing in the same numbers?

Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?

That survey is kind of irrelevant considering the diversity of options and the fact that people were limited in the number they could pick.. really what it says is 76% of people did not think AH was a priority..

More importantly, let it go people.. this topic will not be addressed for at least a year..

The market ward and retainer system SUCKS !!!

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