Further proof that the market wards are a festival of failure.

[Grey-dex]

I agree with increase in retainer sell capacity. I think an increase to overall inventory capacity for the retainer would not hurt. Add tabs to further sort our materials held therein. Lower to 1 retainer for the sake of being able to place a retainer in the ward you need to sell in (mainly that problem can be dealt with by having the other 2 cities markets regain a populous greater than 20) I also do not contend with the counter idea. But a mandatory auction? No thanks, let me see your sale price so I don't overbid or sit there for a while..

"Can i get it for this much? No... and now? No... alright I will pay the current prices... no. I wonder how much the next person is asking... Argh, /l Hey is this a good price? Nvm I'll check (insert site of your choice)" Or see the sale price and purchase if its good for you. Yes, please.

Somehow I can already see the rebuttal of, "how is looking through a list to star several retainers in different wards any faster?" but I am not saying it is. It's definitely a work in progress, I just don't want to see the implementation of ONLY auctioning perhaps they will have both. AH will be the flea market for deals maybe?

[vax]

People like to cry on everything.

[Doho]

we hope our tears will bring the game back to life. (see all Disney's Rapunzel)

[Alegis]

I kind of favor the market ward system but a wow cloned auction house in their own UI would probably be best.

U may dont know but the Auction House isnt invented by WoW. There were Auction Houses long before WoW, like everything WoW has.

[CoolBlitz]

Hmm I have six retainers myself. Market wards are full because the game is still free. I opened two extra accounts just to sell stuff.

I am sure there are a lot of people that has more than one char.

[longtallsally]

I just spent the better part of two days mining up mats to sell and make myself a little gil. Since SE's refusal to implement an auction house I'm force to use their market ward system. No my bazzar is not an option. Hoping someone that needs the item I'm selling just happens to check my bazzar? Are you kidding?

Unfortunately, there is not one inch of free realistate in the masons ward to summon my retainer. My only option now is to pay a huge tax on my sales by summoning my retainer in another ward.

If there is no room to summon a retainer now in the correct ward, what is it going to be like when/if they release a PS3 version of the game?

By representing every sale point in the game with a character, SE has doomed this system to failure. If you don't believe that, go visit your Battlecraft ward.

I know there are some people that will defend the market wards till the end of time but the majority of the players in this game wish it would just go away. I'm one of them.

The Tax difference of selling stuff in a non-optimal ward isnt THAT big, not big enough to cry about at least. Ive sold an item and eaten a 400k tax on it before

Also if a ward is full, usually the stands are open and you can use a stand still. i did that last night just because i was to lazy to load into a different ward. Only thing i hate about ward system is boucning around to the different wards hunting for stuff, but its part of the game now so i deal with it. Whether they change the system to an AH or keep it as is im fine with it.

[Dreamer]

I'm perfectly fine with an auction house if it's in the form of actual auctions. I can do without the one-stop glorified NPC ultra-merchant nonsense, however.

If done correctly market wards can work just as well. Unfortunately, their current implementation and backend systems simply aren't up to the task. But I would rather see them spend the effort to streamline and fix the current system rather than waste effort building a redundant system.

[longtallsally]

And this is exactly what I've been posting about. If they no longer render the retainers, there will no longer be a need for separate zones, complex menus, single item searches, etc. It will solve like 90% of the problems with Market Wards.

There will always be a menu system, this being final fantasy and all, as well as this being made to work on a console. I just wish it were more responsive, i hate when i try to invite someone to my party from my social list i have to wait wait a good 3-5secs before i can actually invite them. Or when i pick recipe i SP on theres a good 1-2sec delay for it to actualy be able to be selected, sure its just a few seconds, but its just annoying hehe

[Dubont]

the majority of players don't sell their crap in the correct ward anyway, so why does it matter?

[Seif]

Most players hate the MWs big news. Se doesn't listen to user feedback and announces that they're madly in love with MW and want to keep it for ever and ever, even bigger news. >__>