Don't Ruin the economy with an auction house! please![dev1019]

[LazyKz]

"how much does this item mean to me...how much would I pay...what can I find it for...who can I talk to obtain this item" not "ok do I have 5k for this to buy from AH". I think market transactions and finding what you need should be more player involved rather that just going to the AH to buy what you need.

Seriously? I hear almost zero player to player trading. FFXI was always busy in Jeuno with trade chatting... WOW has thier own trade chat channel...

And price set by demand is exactly whats happening in the wards. Just 10x slower. You gotta be pretty stoned to buy the 20k cotton cowl with one up for 5k.

I feel right now the anti-AH peeps are fussin because the gil input/output is not balanced. Just wait until square fixes this and 70% of us become broke... now the cheapest avalible, or fastest way to sell wont sound so bad.

[Smokie23]

Seriously? I hear almost zero player to player trading. FFXI was always busy in Jeuno with trade chatting... WOW has thier own trade chat channel...

And price set by demand is exactly whats happening in the wards. Just 10x slower. You gotta be pretty stoned to buy the 20k cotton cowl with one up for 5k.

I feel right now the anti-AH peeps are fussin because the gil input/output is not balanced. Just wait until square fixes this and 70% of us become broke... now the cheapest avalible, or fastest way to sell wont sound so bad.

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. Player X and Z have the choice to sell their goods at whatever price they feel fit, but with the search function that way is gone. Like I said even with the search function it becomes more AH style orientated. With the search function that eliminates MW browsing...which makes the freedom of price setting obsolete. At this stage they mine as well go all the way and put in a AH window and get rid of retainers and MW all together.
Me personally i'm geared toward change when it comes to a new game, so i'm liking the MW system. But if AH is what will bring this game back to life then I don't really care what SE has to do to bring players back. Coming back after a couple months (due to RL issues) the game is...almost dead. Even with free trial still on! This makes me worry where the game is heading but after reading the last few months updates, letters from producers and seeing drastic in house changes on SE end...I still have high hopes for the game.

At least this new team has the balls to say "ok we fu**ed up...we see whats wrong and we hear the community"