Market Wards, enough is enough

[Gracious]

The bottom line is that if you want an Auction House you should start listing real reasons it is better than a Market Ward. You see, I've listed reasons that the current system is better for the economy by make it ridiculously hard for RMT (or any player driven corporation) to run a monopoly on goods. This is good for everyone. It's a benefit to the economy where the Auction House had failed.

Auction House could be designed to "trustbust" but we already have a Market Ward.

Stop saying "I want one" and start listing explicit reasons why one would be better. You shave off 30-60 seconds of your time finding/placing an item. I get that much, but it's not a good trade off for me to just hand over the economy to RMT exploitation. Some people pointed out a laughable list of pros for AH that could all be achieved by a Market Ward system.

Why build a redundant system when the current one is capable of functioning the same way, or better overall for the economy (at the cost of a small amount of convenience)? That's what the real issue should be.

You want one isn't an argument. No one cares about that, including SE.
What does an AH provide that makes you want it and why can't the Wards facilitate that same need?

Why do you think this game is failing? It's because the players of this game didn't like what SE was doing and felt they went backwards instead of forwards in some area's. Market Wards is backwards. What you are saying is that SE doesn't care about it's player base, since a HUGE majority asked for an Auction House and they aren't even working on one. You are right. I think many players feel SE is not listening to us. SE doesn't listen we'll leave. I only stuck around this long because I like the game with all but a few exceptions. I vote with the majority on some issue's that need to be fixed. Auction House is one of them. All I can say is this: the FIX is an Auction House, and Guild Wars 2 is looking better and better to me.

[Shai]

Why do you think this game is failing? It's because the players of this game didn't like what SE was doing and felt they went backwards instead of forwards in some area's. Market Wards is backwards. What you are saying is that SE doesn't care about it's player base, since a HUGE majority asked for an Auction House and they aren't even working on one. You are right. I think many players feel SE is not listening to us. SE doesn't listen we'll leave. I only stuck around this long because I like the game with all but a few exceptions. I vote with the majority on some issue's that need to be fixed. Auction House is one of them. All I can say is this: the FIX is an Auction House, and Guild Wars 2 is looking better and better to me.

I've addressed this many times. TO YOU SPECIFICALLY.

1. Lack of AH is not causing this game to fail. Maybe it's why you don't play or will leave, but you're 1 person who is stuck on a name rather than what the system does. Market Wards is capable of doing the same thing AND blocking RMT from controlling the economy. An AH could be built that does the same thing, but why build a new system when the functioning system is fully capable of facilitating ALL your needs. It's a waste of time, money and manpower.

2. The lack of usable economy was a severe issue in the first 2-3 months of this game because there was no effective way to find ANYTHING you wanted to buy. Therefore it was near impossible to sell ANYTHING you needed to sell. (Add to the fact that NPC'ng 20 items took about 35 minutes due to UI latency issues and you have a real worthless economy, don't you)? News flash: All those things have been fixed since January. This is just 1 aspect of the many failed systems that were in this game between Sept 22 and Christmas. If you want me to list them all I can, but it's a waste of my time, effort, money and manpower.

3. SE does care about its player base which is why they aren't about to hand the economy over from a player driven one to one controlled by a collection of people only interested in real world money that punish legitimate players. The Market system (by the way) was one of the lowest things people wanted changed. You keep saying AH is #2, but the economy (in the previous question) was 2nd to last. The polls reflect the feelings of people in January, before the economy had even taken hold, before the Item Search had been refined. People wanted the functionality of an Auction House, and now they have it. Poll players again and I'm personally sure AH would be a minority vote - especially if SE tells you how long it will take and all the things they'll have to stall in order to work on it and implement it.

Thinking the AH will turn this game around is ridiculous. It's one of the most preposterous statements I've ever heard.

Guild Wars 2 looks pretty good to me, too. What's your point?
SE doesn't care if you leave. Go ahead. You aren't threatening them.

When the game is fixed and everything runs smoothly, they'll re-launch on PS3 with tons of content and lure as many people back as they can. They'd like you back, but right now they don't really care what you do. You are not money in their pocket. The "AH or I quit" threat is as silly as thinking AH will fix everything wrong with the game.

Post some real reasons for an AH please.