The market ward is like a ghost town...are they supposed to be adding an AH?

I was at Limsa and went to the market ward earlier and it was like...85% more empty. Then I tried the search feature and could not find any of the items I was looking for....usually I find them without a problem, but didn't see anything at all that I needed.

I know the retainers were reset. Hopefully people will place them back up soon.

By the way, any word of an auction house being implemented in 1.19 or 1.20?

Go to Jeun err Ul'dah.

Don't worry chances are Ul'dah will be so full of retainers that you won't be able to summon yours.

Ever.

Not even in your dreams.

Knock yourself out.

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Originally Posted by Tatsuo

Go to Jeun err Ul'dah.

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Doesn't help is no one cares to use it even in the most popular part of the world. Also doesn't help there's a limit on the retainers for stuff that are popular.

But to answer the question on AH: From Producer letter "Looking into it".

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Don't worry chances are Ul'dah will be so full of retainers that you won't be able to summon yours.

Ever.

Not even in your dreams.

Knock yourself out.

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Too bad there's a lack of usefulness due to the all the separations.

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Originally Posted by kukurumei

Too bad there's a lack of usefulness due to the all the separations.

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Not too sure what that's supposed to mean but ok.

Heres what I predict after 12+ months of retail SE will finally add some really basic kinda crappy version of an auction house and Yoshi-p will get several threads thanking him. A few people will make threads saying they dont like the auction house because they arnt useful enough the SE white knights will come in and tell those players to quit the game.

So no matter when SE adds the auction house and no matter how basic and unuseful it is it will be treated like its the next great thing and that SE added it just in time to save the day. Truth be told we have already lost thousands of players due to not having an auction house and having market wards.

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Heres what I predict after 12+ months of retail SE will finally add some really basic kinda crappy version of an auction house and Yoshi-p will get several threads thanking him. A few people will make threads saying they dont like the auction house because they arnt useful enough the SE white knights will come in and tell those players to quit the game.

So no matter when SE adds the auction house and no matter how basic and unuseful it is it will be treated like its the next great thing and that SE added it just in time to save the day. Truth be told we have already lost thousands of players due to not having an auction house and having market wards.

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Agreed. Let's just hope if they decide to add an auction house that it isn't just something that was quickly thrown together and ends up being worse than the market ward.

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Originally Posted by KamikazeMan

Agreed. Let's just hope if they decide to add an auction house that it isn't just something that was quickly thrown together and ends up being worse than the market ward.

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How can it be worse then the MW, when the MW is worse then the basic functions of an AH, with fancier graphics.

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Not too sure what that's supposed to mean but ok.

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Popular wards are too popular, unpopular wards are insanely unpopular.

In the end, I rather just select an item from the screen press buy, and be done with it...look an AH.

How can we have a AH when we don't even have something as simple as a mailbox? ... just saying LoL sad thing is it's been almost a year, this is a basic mmo function that goes waaaaaaaaay back and ties in with common sense xD

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How can we have a AH when we don't even have something as simple as a mailbox? ... just saying LoL

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True, though the mailbox is simply a means of delay overflow. Like having max-ed out inventory, or gil put into your account.

Not really needed, but convenient safety features.

It was really the idiot developer minds again, that thought "we can enforce taxes and sales and prevent money laundering if they can't trade with another" type thinking.

Kinda like preventing pre-marital sex by denying teenagers a social life era thinking. (Or prevent evil thoughts by having women wear bulky clothes and hid their faces...)

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How can we have a AH when we don't even have something as simple as a mailbox? ... just saying LoL sad thing is it's been almost a year, this is a basic mmo function that goes waaaaaaaaay back and ties in with common sense xD

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Oh yes, lol. This game is missing a lot of the fundamentals. I'm glad SE is taking a few steps forward with the game, but maybe they should take a few steps back and add the things that should have always been there.

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Originally Posted by kukurumei

Popular wards are too popular, unpopular wards are insanely unpopular.

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Only insane thing i see is some people that think that what this game now is wasting resources in implementing an AH when there's already a system in place that's functionally an AH without the name Auction House.

Ridiculous.

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Only insane thing i see is some people that think that what this game now is wasting resources in implementing an AH when there's already a system in place that's functionally an AH without the name Auction House.

Ridiculous.

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All I'm hearing is...

Needing 7 electricians to change a lightbulb, and then the solution is to add more electricians to the roster when people complain how slow and bad the process is.

If I can't personally place a retainer in the ward I want to place it in, the system is broke for myself.

That's all there is too it. Get mad at this comment all you want. Whatever man.

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All I'm hearing is...

Needing 7 electricians to change a lightbulb, and then the solution is to add more electricians to the roster when people complain how slow and bad the process is.

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The difference in usability with an auction house is minimal. And the system is more elastic on top of it. You're just too attached to a name.

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If I can't personally place a retainer in the ward I want to place it in, the system is broke for myself.

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Considering that now search lists the location of each retainer, it'll work exactly like an auction house whichever ward you put your retainer in.

The only "broken" thing is some people's sense of priorities.

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The difference in usability with an auction house is minimal. And the system is more elastic on top of it. You're just too attached to a name.



Considering that now search lists the location of each retainer, it'll work exactly like an auction house whichever ward you put your retainer in.

The only "broken" thing is some people's sense of priorities.

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all the MW are now is just an AH that makes u run around so... why not just make an AH where u dont have to run around like... a normal ah :O!

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all the MW are now is just an AH that makes u run around so... why not just make an AH where u dont have to run around like... a normal ah :O!

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Anyone with a sufficent supply of grey cells would understand that scrapping a system that works to create a redundant one because those without such supply demand it, isn't the smartest idea.

That's especially true when those resources could be instead used to implement some of the things the game actually lacks.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Anyone with a sufficent supply of grey cells would understand that scrapping a system that works to create a redundant one because those without such supply demand it, isn't the smartest idea.

That's especially true when those resources could be instead used to implement some of the things the game actually lacks.

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And those with grey cells that actually think of such stuff know that you replace an old bridge with a new one if the old bridge will cost you more to do less with every passing season.

They spend more months fixing something that's not satisfactory instead of reverting to an easy and efficient old system...

Wait isn't that almost half the patches this year that eventually came to the same conclusion? Why yes...yes it is.

That's what happens when you make stupid decisions. Putting lipstick on them is only going to cost you the stupidity cost + lipstick cost on top of it.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Anyone with a sufficent supply of grey cells would understand that scrapping a system that works to create a redundant one because those without such supply demand it, isn't the smartest idea.

That's especially true when those resources could be instead used to implement some of the things the game actually lacks.

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Thats what I keep telling these companies who quit making VHS tape, I mean VHS worked fine why did they need to make DVDs that do the EXACT same thing, and now these Blueray thingamabobs...when will they ever learn!

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Anyone with a sufficent supply of grey cells would understand that scrapping a system that works to create a redundant one because those without such supply demand it, isn't the smartest idea.

That's especially true when those resources could be instead used to implement some of the things the game actually lacks.

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Sorry dude. But the market wards are, and always will be, a flawed idea. Increasing the number of wards and ward capacity is only a hack fix delaying the inevitable. I don't even want to think of what kind of hack fix would need to make the MW work on a popular game. My guess is that the only reason we don't have some kind of AH by now is because of some weird, archaic system put into place that doesn't allow such a thing. So basically a lot of work probably needs to go into getting rid of something that should never be there. I'm pretty sure they said that's why we don't have a mailbox yet either.

I am 100% sure an AH in some form or fashion will be implemented eventually. And I'd have to guess it'll be before the PS3 release.

They arent emptier, more people are cramming themselves into specific wards so the others arent as full

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Thats what I keep telling these companies who quit making VHS tape, I mean VHS worked fine why did they need to make DVDs that do the EXACT same thing, and now these Blueray thingamabobs...when will they ever learn!

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lol ..

OP is trying to play FFXIV instead of UldahXIV