Auction House Vs. Market Wards - The Movie

[Seirra_Lanzce]

just telling that Im with MW... :C

[micke]

OMG, when i see that movie about ah in FF XI and listning to the music, i near cried. Such memorys. I havn't played ffXI for over 1 year now and i realize i miss that game sooo much /cry.

[gifthorse]

Ugh, that video is so boring. Wake me up when MMOs implement something fun.

[Mega]

Awesome idea taking the debate into a new medium. With all that has been shown and said I still have no problem with the market wards. gj SE! You got a whole one thing correct, wahoo!

[Feldt]

FFXIs Ah is a slow AH too. If you compared it to a game like wows the market wards would be atleast 3 times slower.

It's not only slow (FFXI ah) it's also not intuitive, I'm voting for Wards, (More RPG like, i like it) anyway notice how fast she manages through FFXI AH Menu to gain more time and how slow she does it in FFXIV Wards?

Anyway no matter what, and who say, I already have my mind set on Market Wards ^.^

[AlexiaKidd]

It's not only slow (FFXI ah) it's also not intuitive, I'm voting for Wards, (More RPG like, i like it) anyway notice how fast she manages through FFXI AH Menu to gain more time and how slow she does it in FFXIV Wards?

Anyway no matter what, and who say, I already have my mind set on Market Wards ^.^

Umm I already said I preferred wards but IF they add an AH I wouldn't be bothered, and it took me longer to find the items in the MW lists because they are not in any particular order like rank as opposed to the AH where I knew they were low level near the bottom.

[Amsai]

As far as the FFXI AH, I am fine with the time on that. People have different PCs and equipment. And with me, it would have been closer to 6 min to get those thee items from the MWs. In the thread I started, I did time it individually on three different items, and each time it took me about 2 min. So if I multiply the average time (2min 5 sec) by 3 it would have taken me 6 min 15 sec to get any random 3 items.

I noticed your load times and the UI interaction was a loooot faster than on my PC. I guess this could partly be a failing on my part due to my PC. However, if we had an interface that allowed me to buy and sell directly from the list, it would be a lot quicker for me. So while your video is accurate for your situation, it is not representative of everyones situation.

[AlexiaKidd]

As far as the FFXI AH, I am fine with the time on that. People have different PCs and equipment. And with me, it would have been closer to 6 min to get those thee items from the MWs. In the thread I started, I did time it individually on three different items, and each time it took me about 2 min. So if I multiply the average time (2min 5 sec) by 3 it would have taken me 6 min 15 sec to get any random 3 items.

I noticed your load times and the UI interaction was a loooot faster than on my PC. I guess this could partly be a failing on my part due to my PC. However, if we had an interface that allowed me to buy and sell directly from the list, it would be a lot quicker for me. So while your video is accurate for your situation, it is not representative of everyones situation.

Oh yeah I fully agree, don't get me wrong I do prefer the wards but they do need a lot of work to get them up to scratch.

[Zezil]

may SE wanna fix about bot buy & sell item from rmt

[Amsai]

Not worth the inconvenience to the players, if thats the case. In business, companies only use as much IT security as they need and can still properly function on the web. If this is SE's answer to bots and RMTs, then it would be something like a company unplugging themseleves from the internet as their Information Security strategy. Doesnt make any sense to devalue the player experience in exchange for cutting down on RMTs. Notice that I said cutting down, this doesnt even get rid of them, there will always be bots and RMTs.

A more effective and fun way to get rid of bots would be to allow players to PK bots. If a character in the field (not a city or camp) did not move for a certain amount of hours, they are flagged as Bots and open to kill..............................
But thats a conversation for another thread.