Market Wards, enough is enough

[Asmeret]

1. Not Exclusive to Auction Houses. Can be implemented in the Market Ward.
2. Not Exclusive to Auction Houses. Can be implemented in the Market Ward.
3. Market Wards already allow you to compare prices of items others are selling. If you feel you can make a profit and sell the item faster for a lower price then already listed, go ahead. Thats economics.
4. Not Exclusive.
5. In FFXI your money was not given to you directly when you sold an item. It was delievered to your mailbox and you had to go to a mog house to get it. Same with every other AH the money is dropped in a mailbox that you have to go hunt down.
6. Not exclusive.


Everything you mentioned can be implemented into the Market Ward without an Auction house.

And then it pretty much gets turned into an Auction House.

[Lerris]

Simple Solution ( at least conceptually ):
Allow our retainers to do the footwork for us.
Summon retainer in Adventurers Guild. Browse items in market ward search menu. Select item, retainer buys it, hands it over.

We still have the option of entering the wards to shop ourselves, everyone is happy.

[Dreadnought]

And then it pretty much gets turned into an Auction House.

lol thast basically what my post was, yeah its pretty much an auction house, why make me walk at that point?

take any of those features away and you have a system the average player would consider clunky and to some un-useable.
"Cuz then its not immerssive enough!!" lol well idk, most people dont play MMOs for the sole purpose of economic manipulation, its usually "more of just a thing some people do" as everyone ive ever known has put it. theres a whole story to explore and zones (well supposed to be anyway) to explore, people to meet, monsters to fell..... how about immersing that way?

[IveraIvalice]

And then it pretty much gets turned into an Auction House.

exactly what i was thinking

[Sorel]

And then it pretty much gets turned into an Auction House.

And then it pretty much gets turned into a Market Ward.

And then it pretty much gets turned into a Turkish Baazar.

What we call the collection of features that allows players to buy and sell goods means nothing. Less than nothing, actually.

What IS important are the actual features. The semantics may be fun to argue but they don't help the Development Team give us what we need. What we need are features ... not name changes.

So let's talk about features, shall we??

[IveraIvalice]

What we call the collection of features that allows players to buy and sell goods means nothing. Less than nothing, actually.

What IS important are the actual features. The semantics may be fun to argue but they don't help the Development Team give us what we need. What we need are features ... not name changes.

So let's talk about features, shall we??

wow you really need to know what your talking about before you post, if you think its just a name change that we're asking for, go back and read a few posts. mine a few posts back should clue you in on why this topic is so big.

[Cairdeas]

And then it pretty much gets turned into an Auction House.

If it doesn't have Blind or Timed Bidding its not an auction house. Its just a searchable market.

[IveraIvalice]

If it doesn't have Blind or Timed Bidding its not an auction house. Its just a searchable market.

when i posted my very long summary of what i think is going on int his thread, i specificaly said that we are talking about an AH as in FFXI type numerous times, specifically because you seem to be the only one thinking that everyone is talking about blind and timed bidding. i havent been reading since the beginning but after all i've read your the only one