Quote Originally Posted by Xzen View Post
I'd bet that even if they gave us an AH it would still be broken, lack most of the features your asking for, and be slow and cumbersome. What makes you thin they would just all of a sudden get an AH done right out of the blue? What evidence can you give me that the AH system would not be just as if not even more broken than the Market wards seeing as they have not put any time into making one?
Their existing game FFXI - AH is fine. Its not perfect, there is no text search, you scroll through items by category for example, but if they could implement that system in FFXIV with the number of auction slots increased most people would be happy i think (number of slots you can use to auction items is restricted by PS2 console's memory but then it is an aging game.)

You search for the item you want, bid on it (something the market ward retainer system cannot do without implementing a bidding system which equals an AH anyway mostly), it is delivered to you, you click the next one, buy it outright, its delivered to you. Theres no zoning, no instances, no waiting for retainer to pop up and load, no running around pointlessly.