Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Betelgeuzah]

AH is useless.

Item search can be made to do everything that AH can do, and more.

[Sagagemini]

I haven't read all the 22 pages but what I read in the first few really made me wonder why so many people don't see the necessity for an Auction House.
So here are some of my problems with the wards that I wouldn't have with an Auction House:

- Crashes
- Gotta search, then switch zones, then wait for the Retainers to load to buy something. Buying takes way too long.
- People sell everything everywhere. Just browsing a specific ward to find new gear won't make sense because, in my perception, over 80% sell their Marmot Pelts and Wind Shards in the god damn Battlecraft ward...
- I want to sell my thousands of crystals since a few weeks but only thinking of that horrible UI and the lag while setting up the prices frustrates me. Selling takes way too long.
- If I then finally want to do it anyway I can't because that specific ward is full. And that's my main complaint.

So if I ever will play again more than once or twice per month I need an Auction House first. Its role in such a game is just too important to me to let it be replaced by such a crappy imitation of it.

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This

MWs are a huge waste of time.
As a casual player i don't even bother selling stuff anymore...
"Hey, i'm gonna try and sell this Lance i bought! owait, i can't cause the ward is full! Ok, i'll just place it somewhere else...WTF is up with these taxes?!"
Plus the waiting between zones, loading reatiners, exchanging items and etc.

[TheVedis]

I haven't read all the 22 pages but what I read in the first few really made me wonder why so many people don't see the necessity for an Auction House.
So here are some of my problems with the wards that I wouldn't have with an Auction House:

- Crashes
- Gotta search, then switch zones, then wait for the Retainers to load to buy something. Buying takes way too long.
- People sell everything everywhere. Just browsing a specific ward to find new gear won't make sense because, in my perception, over 80% sell their Marmot Pelts and Wind Shards in the god damn Battlecraft ward...
- I want to sell my thousands of crystals since a few weeks but only thinking of that horrible UI and the lag while setting up the prices frustrates me. Selling takes way too long.
- If I then finally want to do it anyway I can't because that specific ward is full. And that's my main complaint.

So if I ever will play again more than once or twice per month I need an Auction House first. Its role in such a game is just too important to me to let it be replaced by such a crappy imitation of it.

-i aint seen a crash in over a month
-omg you actualy gotta walk around to find the retainer(which has a star over his head) so much hard work!
- Sell everything everywhere? who cares! item search buddy, you dont have to browse to find stuff
-Then sell them, the lag isnt as bad as you make it out to be unless your computer isnt up to par for this game, in which case its all on your end
-You can do it in any ward anyway and people can find you cuz of the magical item search feature, that was hard right?


when was the last time you played anyway? november, alot of what you state was an issue back then, not now

[Balbanes]

We'll get an AH as soon as TonyMontana stops necrobumping his own threads.

I wouldn't hold my breath, in other words.

[indira]

only thing a AH will add is item history & charge you to put stuff on auction.

MW do everything we need except we have to run to the retainer to buy stuff.

[TonyMontana]

We'll get an AH as soon as TonyMontana stops necrobumping his own threads.

I wouldn't hold my breath, in other words.

I just do it instead of making a new thread :P

[polyhedral]

Market Wards suck. I much rather just not involve myself in the economy if I have to deal with them.

[Onidemon]

We don't really need an auction house, the market wards do everything an AH does except that you have to pick up your item(s).

What does an AH do that you can't do in the wards?

You just said it. You don't need to go pick up your item. Everything is a timesink in this game we don't need more.

I want an auction house, i want price history, i want all the options an AH gives and i want to be able to bid or buyout and i want the items to go to my mailbox.

[RabidSquirrel]

AH is useless.

Item search can be made to do everything that AH can do, and more.

Can an item search let me put an item up for sale without having to deal with the dumb chore of placing a retainer in a ward?

[Corrderio]

What an auction house does is allow people to set up bots to automatically destroy the economy further, as well as sell gil for gold on the internet.

No thanks

Oh! I get to use this again!