Market Wards vs AH

[Spellstar]

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.

[Xzen]

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.

Do you really think they could just port all that over? Do you think they would? I doubt it.

[Spellstar]

Do you really think they could just port all that over? Do you think they would? I doubt it.

They could of course. Will they? probably not. But they could use it for a model very easily. Its their game, their code, its been successful for 6years (or is it 8 cant remember), they know it works, they know what they can do in FFXIV with increased memory. I see no reason why they could not use core objects in the code and build the program up around it.

Hell that's what programmers do a lot of the time. Programming is a lot more "hack and slash" than people believe, when you have millions of lines of code to write, damn straight your gonna template existing material to cut down on the work, and then plug it into your existing architecture. Thats how programming is done every day around the world, we evolve and tinker with existing programs. Game systems arent written from scratch as much as people think.

[Xzen]

They could of course. Will they? probably not. But they could use it for a model very easily. Its their game, their code, its been successful for 6years (or is it 8 cant remember), they know it works, they know what they can do in FFXIV with increased memory. I see no reason why they could not use core objects in the code and build the program up around it.

Hell that's what programmers do a lot of the time. Programming is a lot more "hack and slash" than people believe, when you have millions of lines of code to write, damn straight your gonna template existing material to cut down on the work, and then plug it into your existing architecture. Thats how programming is done every day around the world, we evolve and tinker with existing programs. Game systems arent written from scratch as much as people think.

I don't think they could port but they could use it as a model for building one in FFXIV. Would it be bugged to hell? Yes. Would it be slow and cumbersome? Yes. Would it likely crash? Yes. Would it likely be missing some features? Yes. We would in essence likely be where we were 4 months ago but with an AH instead.

[Spellstar]

I don't think they could port but they could use it as a model for building one in FFXIV. Would it be bugged to hell? Yes. Would it be slow and cumbersome? Yes. Would it likely crash? Yes. Would it likely be missing some features? Yes. We would in essence likely be where we were 4 months ago but with an AH instead.

ok you have no idea what you talking about. Why would it be buggy as hell? back up your statements?

[Xzen]

ok you have no idea what you talking about. Why would it be buggy as hell? back up your statements?

Have you played FFXIV? I really don't think they can pull a fully functional AH out of a hat with all of the functionality we want based on everything we have seen from them so far. I'm going on track record here.