Please Implement a standard Auction House

[Wazabi]

I think the current system benefit traders who puts in effort to check market price despite the inconvenience. Make it too easy, everyone will be selling in the game and serious traders would loose their advantage of being diligent (though only a little). On the bright side, market is more efficient, prices converge to equilibrium price faster.

[Reika]

Retainer + market system is fine as is. Never has been and never will be the need for generic AH. The ability to preview weapons / armor has nothing to do with the market system, its a feature that has never been tied to the AH features and they have already mentioned plans of doing so.

And yea, you can see both the current price listings for the item you are trying to sell, as well as the sale history, right from your retainer. No need to run back and forth. So out goes the primary problem. Then, having to summon your retainer from the bell to list stuff is a non-issue. You would have to "summon" your auction listing too.

[Jinko]

They still need to produce an average price based on sales history when adding an item to be sold. (been asking for this since 1.0).

Too many people still have no idea how much to sell items for and don't even check the price history.

[Garhauk]

To those saying a few extra seconds isn't something to whine about, it most certainly is when you are doing the same action thousands of times. I don't understand why game companies don't streamline absolutely everything that is often repeated. Retainers are an attempt to add personality to the auction system, which is interesting, but it is at the expense of raw functionality. And after clicking through them saying the same thing the 5000th time, I'm sure that personality is still fresh and not-at-all annoying.

I named my retainer Automaton.

[Kyra]

This thread makes me laugh! Anyone here from the early days of 1.0?

There was no market search and no way to buy items off a board. You had to physical enter a specific ward room and check every single retainer for that item you wanted, and pray that people were using the right wards to sell there items, which most of the time they wasn't.

This new market/retainer system is the best I've seen in any MMO.

[bwalker36]

I prefer the standard AH method like the one used by wow, but I don't have any issues with this one. It is easy to use and has pretty much everything you need. But then again I used auctionator which was a god send. To me the only thing I don't like is not being able to filter by per item cost. Unless I missed something.

[AgriaWyyn]

I actually like the system just as it is. Itmakes sense, mimics an actual system and is just different. It is not the same old thing from one game to the next. If I wanted that I would go play ine of the other games out there. A bit more work? Perhaps. But something that is more unique is worth it. I love it. Don't change it.

If they add a preview system at some point in the future, great! Complaining or asking for one for the market is not helpful when there is not one in the game to begin with.

Just my 2 Gil.

[Sousoulsu]

Why can't we just rightclick "Sell Item" from our inventory when we're at the market window?
It's a completely needless step to give it to the retainer.
Also, you can't check prices when you're in your retainer's window. You have to be at the Market board to do that.

If people really like a cumbersome system, they're mental.

[Aesu]

I actually like the system just as it is. Itmakes sense, mimics an actual system and is just different. It is not the same old thing from one game to the next. If I wanted that I would go play ine of the other games out there. A bit more work? Perhaps. But something that is more unique is worth it. I love it. Don't change it.

If they add a preview system at some point in the future, great! Complaining or asking for one for the market is not helpful when there is not one in the game to begin with.

Just my 2 Gil.

I like it, all it needs is the ability to get yourretainer to buy stuff for you and it will be awesome. He can buy the stuff I need that isn't available when I look while I sleep.

[Nirosu]

The marketboard itself needs to have it's search function improved, honestly someone with a year of regex could probably improve the search in about 2 hours.
Now to the retainer system. They function as both a bank and market broker essentially.
It has a few extra annoyances that aren't needed imo.
1) Let players pick say a head retainer so you can have all items in retainer storage, Marketboard, and gil storage shown.
2) Increase market posting to something like 50 per retainer or let players pay a fee to purchase extra retainers. 40 market slots is nothing for players that like to craft and sell stuff. I'd honestly like no limit but meh I can compromise.
3) Merge retainer options. There is no need for there to be so many different options. Though this is minor issue and can be worked around by just using the retainer marketboard option and opening player inventory. It is still rather annoying.