Mail, AH and Banks

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Originally Posted by grausekopf

It is also annoying to be forced to check for each and every item what the current value is, then run back to the retainer to adjust the price in order to sell it whenever you have a new item you want to sell or when you notice an item is not selling after quite a while. This is way too much effort and no fun at all. In an AH one could see that instantly. So once again... Please finally add an AH. :(

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Yes that is one of my biggest complains. I come from WOW and with the AH all i had to do is search for an item to see it's price and then click a tab to adjust price and sell my item. So easy and fast.

I had 100 items/ full bag on my retainer and my character as well... wanted to start selling some stuff in the markets but after wasting like 15 minutes for like 5-6 items i gave up and sold all to an NPC. You have to run back and forward for the price and if that wasn't enough just giving items to your retainer and then putting it for sell is soooooOOooooOOOOooo SLOOOOOoooooOOOOooooOW...................... No wonder why most retainers i see dont have more then 5-10 items for sell.... IMO an AH would easily fix all that and it wouldn't necessarily mean ending the market wards.

Trading items with my retainer, setting up proper prices, even zoning into the market wards themselves, all takes too long. I've given up on using my retainer to sell stuff and just vendor everything. Zone in, find my retainer, trade items (WAAAY TOO SLOW), write down about 10 item names I wanna sell, go to the door, check the prices, run back, set the prices, zone back out.

With an AH: go to AH window, check prices, set prices, press button to sell. Done.

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Originally Posted by Onidemon

AH

I know some of you are content with the market wards system but others like me are still wishing to have an AH. Not here to debate on why an AH is better then the markets, just want to know what the plans are for this as Yoshi-P said he was considering it.

Note:Maybe there is a way to consolidate Market Wards and Auction Houses, like a way to keep both and make them work together without having either system kill the other. Maybe someone has an idea on how to make that work? If so plz tell us!

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-Market-Wards.

I'll outline very quickly:

By placing your items into your Retainer's Bazaar, your bazaar is then available to be referenced and players will immediately be able to purchase from you. This means you could summon your retainer with the bell in the adventurer's guild, place all the items you wish to sell int the bazaar, and after you dismiss your retainer, all players in whatever city you are in, will be able to search and purchase your items.

For players wishing to purchase, the markets wards would be reduced to a single zone with either a single Hub/NPC to search and purchase from or several Hubs/NPCs to search and purchase from based on item-type. These NPCs would allow you to reference all available bazaars, and either purchase these items directly from the Hub/NPC or allow you to summon the player's retainer and interact with them directly.

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By placing your items into your Retainer's Bazaar, your bazaar is then available to be referenced and players will immediately be able to purchase from you. This means you could summon your retainer with the bell in the adventurer's guild, place all the items you wish to sell int the bazaar, and after you dismiss your retainer, all players in whatever city you are in, will be able to search and purchase your items.

For players wishing to purchase, the markets wards would be reduced to a single zone with either a single Hub/NPC to search and purchase from or several Hubs/NPCs to search and purchase from based on item-type. These NPCs would allow you to reference all available bazaars, and either purchase these items directly from the Hub/NPC or allow you to summon the player's retainer and interact with them directly.

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I would like this if you could summon a players retainer to get that shopping feel and keep the modeling of gear you plan to purchase as well as easing the server stress by not having to enter a zone with hundreds of retainers all at once when you only want to see a select few. Also speeding and simplifying the seller/buyer experience.

I want the simplicity and ease of use that an AH provides while getting that personal shopping feel that wards could offer. Best of both worlds.

I really think the idea for a Linkshell bank where players can gather things necessary for quests/missions, crafting, gear, gil etc. in one place is nice. Everybody can contribute and it would a nice accomplishement feeling that you helped your fellow Linkshell member. It also prevents us to go back and forth for delivery. You just go deposit your unused important items in the bank when you're already there and when a player requests it, they just have to check what is in stock and go from there. I have a feeling it could kill the economy though as most things would just be given away rather than being bought but I'm sure there are ways to work around.

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Originally Posted by Alkoun

With an AH: go to AH window, check prices, set prices, press button to sell. Done.

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What you just described was a Market window, not an Auction House.

FFXI has always had an AH exist side by side with a Bazaar system - No reason why the 2 can't co-exist.
The current retainer system is just an upgrade of the ol'Bazaar. Just add an AH and we'll be gold.

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Originally Posted by Onidemon

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My bag is always always always full! I keep cleaning up my inventory and it's annoying.... giving my retainer items is not the solution as they are not meant for that. We need to have a banking system to store some of our stuff. Give us a set amount of space and make extra space available by purchasing it.

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No, that is what retainers are for. They're meant to hold your extra stuff and/or sell it if you so choose. Having a bank separate would be a bit redundant. The only way I could see this working is if they removed the storage capacity of retainers and added a bank function into player/LS housing.

LS Bank.
Yes please.

I want to see Yoshi go over the top and let me Tweet from in-game so my friends can come join me on something I'm going to do...