Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

The market wards being "good enough" as often I hear protest to, doesn't equate them to being better or more convenient.

The first time I tried to tutor a new player on how the wards worked, they completely flipped out and couldn't believe how wildly impractical they were. His impression that he expressed to me was, if this simple task of purchasing and selling something is so half-baked, the remainder of the game probably is too. If a major function of the game is seen as unappealing and cumbersome to new players, at a time when we're trying to win back as many subscribers as possible, I just don't see trying to maintain the unpopular wards on life support as the best of ideas.

We've come accustomed to settling for the wards as we've seen worse early on in the game, and have really nothing better to rely on at the moment. It's silly to me though to expect a new comers who are used to auction house system in practically every other MMO as well as FFXI to jump through obstacles and learning curves just to buy their first weapon to play. The ward's location in the city zones aren't even obviously marked.

On a side note, I get frustrated when making purchases through the wards as I have the memory of a goldfish and instantly forget the retainer and location of whom I just searched. ^^; The role play aspect of the wards is lost on me as well. It doesn't feel or look like I'm browsing the bustling bazaar markets in some foreign land. Rather, I feel like I'm trying to buy bootleg watches from some guy in a trenchcoat in a back alley.

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Originally Posted by Rinsui

All they see is how they can cope with their environment, but few try to improve it out of fear to desecrate their dying god.

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And yet the past 100 years of man's "improvements" has slowly been killing the planet.

Just sayin'

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Originally Posted by Crawlerbasher

The market ward sucks....
Or at lest it use to.

Now with the new fetures and search of the market ward.
It has become a lot easyer to find what you need and the common selling price.
Which makes it easyer for me to sell and buy stuff from the market ward.

So why do we need an auction house when the market ward works.

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why not have both? Also the wards barley work as of now, can you imagine them if the game had a normal(larger) player base.

So can we go ahead and get that AH or will helping fix the economy take to much developement time away from extremely important things like the summer fest?

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

So can we go ahead and get that AH or will helping fix the economy take to much developement time away from extremely important things like the summer fest?

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I would just like to know where the dev team actually stands on this, and if they are still against the auction house ideals of the players, what are they going to do to keep improving the market wards?

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Originally Posted by Scherwiz

I would just like to know where the dev team actually stands on this, and if they are still against the auction house ideals of the players, what are they going to do to keep improving the market wards?

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It's so simple. Give us an AH or give us a billboard to search & purchase from the wards.

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Originally Posted by Tezz_Xivectro

It's so simple. Give us an AH or give us a billboard to search & purchase from the wards.

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Which is an AH...

People talk about next gen and innovating, and junk, but in the end, they really made a mess of GUI theory to the thousand degree. Graphic user interface doesn't mean you have animated instances with proxies that need several hoops to jump through in order to get what you're looking for.

What would happen if your OS can only launch programs after you have open 16 windows, typed in the first 3 letters of it, and have to watch an intro movie everytime before running.

Keep the MW. But add a buy from search counter option... and add a 5% convenience fee. 2 birds with one stone, simple implementation. I don't see why they wouldn't do this..

For any new player that never tried any MMO, this system will work for them, but for people that played other MMO's they will never like it, and would like an AH instead.

none of my friends that stooped playing this game wants to come back because there is no AH, Mail, Mount system yet.

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Originally Posted by Scherwiz

I would just like to know where the dev team actually stands on this, and if they are still against the auction house ideals of the players, what are they going to do to keep improving the market wards?

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IIRC they never said they were against it, but looking into it.

However until they fix server hardware/etc. I don't think we'll see it any time soon.