Market Wards, enough is enough

[Shai]

Honestly, do you really want the developers wasting their time making Auction Houses and jump animations when they could be making Bahamut summonable or staging invasions by the Garlean Empire?

I don't want to start an argument about it and I know multiple teams work on multiple things, but someone is animating jump could just as well be animating me summon Ifrit. I doubt they have multiple animation teams. Would you rather unlock new jobs and more defined abilities via quests (quested content was #1, btw) or would you rather they work on throwing away a working system like the Market Wards and implementing an Auction House (after months and months MORE of development).

People really want that? I think a new poll would show that they don't.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

get with the times guys. Devs are going for more interactive things over menu lists. (which an ah is) It is dull and boring to walk up to a window scroll through menus to look for an item. Honestly it doesn't take that long to buy stuff from the retainers. It took me 5 min to buy 7 items from the MW. Games like Fable and elder scrolls are also making things more interactive. I like the wards, because I like being active. Why should crap be instant? Its again boring to just walk to a window and scroll through stuff.

It isn't Wards are not a design flaw, players just ruined it for themselves. That and I love the shopping music in the wards :3 It like right from a 1950s comercial.

There are tons of mmo with "auction" houses. Stop crying and go play one of them.

[Gracious]

It's annoying to have to keep doing this - you'd think people would check their evidence before running their mouth, but the internet is a brazen world where personal credentials and the value of their word are meaningless concepts.

1st Poll Results - http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=46e03f76722239ffa01960aba398e4034b898102

You'll find fixing the Market Wards is not 1st or 2nd.
You'll find Auction House is not 1st.

Feel free to complain about how adding NMs was 2nd to last and that's all they've done, though. That would at least be accurate statement to complain about.

Considering that 26.3% voted for Auction House over NM's and Increased variety of leve's I'd say that is big. Players want an Auction House.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Honestly, do you really want the developers wasting their time making Auction Houses and jump animations when they could be making Bahamut summonable or staging invasions by the Garlean Empire?

I don't want to start an argument about it and I know multiple teams work on multiple things, but someone is animating jump could just as well be animating me summon Ifrit. I doubt they have multiple animation teams. Would you rather unlock new jobs and more defined abilities via quests (quested content was #1, btw) or would you rather they work on throwing away a working system like the Market Wards and implementing an Auction House (after months and months MORE of development).

People really want that? I think a new poll would show that they don't.

Don't me stupid. They got different teams working on different things. MMO are ongoing when it comes to stuff you listed. Or do you ppl seem to forget that?

[Suirieko]

Rest assured that the team is in the process on stabilizing and improving the current retainer system. Something that I want everyone to keep in mind is that even if we simply changed the current system over to an auction house, that doesn’t mean it would solve all of our problems overnight. There are more things that would still need to be adjusted if that were to happen. As such we aren't currently planning on switching over to an auction house system as of yet.

That's exactly what I thought. Auction House is not a miracle fix at all. I don't know why people just won't understand that.

[Gracious]

As a person that wants an Auction House, and has waited very patiently for one to be introduced in the game; I can assure you I don't assume it's a quick fix. But, I am very disappointed to find out they aren't even working on one yet. Very disappointed.

[Shai]

Don't me stupid. They got different teams working on different things. MMO are ongoing when it comes to stuff you listed. Or do you ppl seem to forget that?

Um, no, I even said that. Are you being sarcastic?

The fact remains though that "a different team" would have to make a functional Auction House, not a brand new team. What would we sacrifice to get an Auction House? Player run Companies? New classes? Better UI? Better Latency? I mean some team has to stop doing some thing to do this. The question is which one(s) and do you really want them to do it? Something has to be sacrificed FOR MONTHS to get it done.

Perhaps it would be new gear (and thus new content that gives gear) and new materials (and thus no new improvements to gatherers) or perhaps it would be a 6 month hold on new recipes?

Think farking "big picture" for once. One team working on one major overhaul to the game has ALREADY set the game back 6 months from things we could have had in Jan-Mar time frame.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Considering that 26.3% voted for Auction House over NM's and Increased variety of leve's I'd say that is big. Players want an Auction House.

And just because ppl voted for it, don't mean a thing. As the Rep said, even if an AH was put in we will still have issues. I played many mmo with and with out an Auction house system. I like the ones with out better. Having to rely on an AH to get items was so pathetic. Look at ffxi a few mnths ago. Anyone who was new or rerolled couldn't update their gear for a while. Don't get me started on WoWs either ><

I swear They shouldn't even be called Auction houses since there is no bidding going on. It should be called a player market house. Just a dull menu of Market wards. That will be lag up to heck because people going afk or botting the AH. Not like crafters do their duty anyway... Or really anyone else for that matter. Once community wises on up archtype duty we can fix this stuff ourselves.

[Elexia]

As a person that wants an Auction House, and has waited very patiently for one to be introduced in the game; I can assure you I don't assume it's a quick fix. But, I am very disappointed to find out they aren't even working on one yet. Very disappointed.

Why? lol. The MW's are in essence an AH system. It does lack only a few features that an AH has, most people do assume it's a quick miracle fix yet ignore the similarities of the system, thus why everyone say it's not a quick fix.

MW only lacks a delivery/storage/buy from search system..that's about it. Anything else would further the argument that people feel an AH is a quick fix.

[Mack]

Thank you for the reply Bayohne, now people can stop asking for an auction house which is not needed, also its nice to know the devs are still working on the issues with the MWs along with the mile long list there already working on.

Meh, no matter what they do to the Market Wards they know they're unsustainable that is why they can't even decide on whether or not to scrap the idea of an AH completely. AH is coming sooner or later. Wards are fine, but too unnecessary and too much of nothing.