Are we getting an actual auction house?

Checked notes and didnt see anything .. :-/

you are supposed to be able directly from the market ward menu, but it's not working properly.

Not until 2.0. Minimal resources being used while co-developing. Live with buy-from-menu.

Yep, they'll patch in the buying from search when possible, that's when the "actual auction house" will be implemented.

not really, but an AH style interfac is being added to the wards (but won't work 100% until patch 1.20a)

the part of the patch notes you were looking for is about halfway though this post

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post476421

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

Not until 2.0. Minimal resources being used while co-developing. Live with buy-from-menu.

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Im pretty sure were getting as much of an AH as were ever going to get in 1.20a. I base this on the fact that theyre still gonna charge for retainers when 2.0 comes out. But you never know, they might serve a different purpose.

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

Im pretty sure were getting as much of an AH as were ever going to get in 1.20a. I base this on the fact that theyre still gonna charge for retainers when 2.0 comes out. But you never know, they might serve a different purpose.

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It could be argued that (aside from a delivery system if you want to lump the two things together) the search improvements and buying from the search window is all we really needed to begin with, the changes effectively turn the wards into an AH.

Yep all an AH (that people want) is:

1. Searching an Item (O)
2. Buying From Search (1.20a)
3. Delivery of Item/Money (Coming when possible)

That's it lol, so the MW only missing 1 feature that's needed for even unrelated reasons (Personal Messages/Chat etc.)

not yet.

on a side note, iirc I hear yoshi-p said something about the MW being creepy with all those retainers looking at you.

I both like and dislike the way the market wards are soon going to be.

Square Enix has a good thing in principle but it's cumbersome to actually shop. They released that and it has been patched a lot and is still going to see alot of patches in the future.

The system as it is will be a search window that behaves like an auction house without the real benefits of an auction house interface (more patches I believe). But then we lose the cool thing of going through actual wards with salespeople in them. So to not have to get rid of the market wards altogether, they add taxes to the convenience of a real fake auction house just to justify the existence of the market wards?

Hmm.

I want a real auction house, not the wards masquerading as one. A counter to stand at, and being able to deposit items for sale directly (no retainer bazaar) would be nice. The ability to retrieve purchases and sales revenue from the counter as well.
Would really streamline the entire economic process and be more comfortable for new players to use, or heck even find.

Market Wards and a real auction house can coexist. Rolanberry Fields AFKs and the AH coexisted as well. I don't find it to be a very social feature to delve through hundreds of NPCs.

The implementation can wait until 2.0 but if it's taken off the list, I will not be pleased. A working economy is important to me :)