Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Cairdeas]

For me, I'm kind of happy with market ward now a day.
But there's some little problem like when you want to buy some same type of mat and you'll see lot of retainers sell it in different ward. And you can't memorize every retainers name/ward they are on.

My problem solving method is to capture screen with snagit, and then use it as a reference. If I already purchase, I'll mark/delete the retainer name in snagit editor.

if the system can display the search result from main menu everytime we want to, it would be great also, if we can teleport to that ward by click/enter on the retainers name on search result directly it would be greater ^^

About purchase history, I think it's good to not have it. Because when some item run out, we can put some new price instead of stick with the history price forever, so the market can't dominate by someone

This kinda gives me an Idea for a Suggestion...

[Wolfie]

I lol'd XD

Glad someone picked up on that.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

I don't mind the wards as much as I used to, but they need to increase retainer limit, increase the number of items you sell on a retainer, have a list of items you have sold for on that retainer (and for how much), and have a serious tutorial for new players (a casual player will quit before figuring this mess out).

[Viridiana]

I don't mind the wards as much as I used to, but they need to increase retainer limit, increase the number of items you sell on a retainer, have a list of items you have sold for on that retainer (and for how much), and have a serious tutorial for new players (a casual player will quit before figuring this mess out).

Or. . . y'know what, nevermind.

[Shyd]

Market Ward Onry PLZ!!!

Just fix the one we got more~

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

I would be fine with improved wards or an AH really, I just want something that allows me to sell my crap.

[Wild]

I find no adventure in scouring the wards to find items. It is a pain in the arse! Please just make an Auction House system. This whole debate is really morphing into a serious "WTF Really?" conversation.

[Enma]

I'm for an Auction House too. Market Wards are still too chaotic, and to check items you have to move from one ward to the other wasting a lot of time. Furthermore I think that the 2 main functions of the retainers (store your items and sell them) should be splitted, there should be maybe one "selling" retainer and a "storing" one...

P.S.
Sorry for bad english.

[Seif]

I definitely don't want more retainer space or more retainers because it's confusing as hell to know where you left those dodo feathers one month ago when you were patient enough to find your retainer. Having 2 only makes it more confusing and by confusing I also mean annoying. Pressing through retainer systems and waiting for 3d models to load has nothing to do with what I want to do at the marketplace in the 1st place that is to:

1.Chek what the going rate for the item is before I put it on sale
2. Just put it on sale and buy something while I'm at it.

Currently all of these functions of a working economy are botched and as such I've noticed most players ignore the whole MW completely.

When only a fraction of the already small player-base is using the MW don't you understand that it doesn't matter if you personally like it or not? This game has no stable economy and as such it's broken because it affects every area of the gameplay.

There is no cross trading between Disciples, huge gaps in gameplay with proper gear because none are found on sale. No mats for crafters and no set battle tactics for specific gear because it's always too unreliable.
I'm sorry if you like the MW but honestly it does not matter when there's nothing on sale because most players don't use it due to not liking it.

Majority voted for an AH in the poll it's downright unacceptable that SE is focusing on much smaller tasks that received under 10% of the votes before the big issues are done.

This is certainly not the only AH thread so far there has been dozens of AH threads with thousands of replies because people really want an AH. It's not a matter of getting used to a broken system it's a matter of people not using it at all because they don't like it and it's affecting every area of gameplay.

Every time I toss something out of my inventory I have no idea what it's worth and there's no easy way to tell like there is in every other MMO.

Little things like aggro levels and long-range attacks got immediate response from SE (also confirmations that they've started work on the those issues) with just one unpopular thread but the AH issue has been on these forums since the forums were launched and it's been a hot topic for more weeks than any single issue in the entire game so far.

People want an AH and besides that they want to know that one is still coming as hinted by N. Yoshida when he got the job. Knowing that an AH is coming would do a lot to restore hope to the games future and it would also give a strong marketing card to SE for pushing XIV news to the mass media gaming sites where XIV has been a laughing stock. Almost always the fact that "it still doesn't have an AH" is mentioned.

Even Gamasutra a developer magazine that usually focuses on positive interesting aspects of game design ran a long article on how XIV's MW system doesn't work and it featured most major MMO's as examples of thriving economies that do it right.

The AH isn't about making a good game for me or you but as a whole the economy of XIV isn't stable and as such many aspects of the game are not working as intended. Especially in a game where the trade between classes is so intergal to the core of the game.

[Rinsui]

The retainer system is a crippled crutched auction house on crutches, with crutches attached to it.

It literally is THE HORROR.

Whenever you perform an "auction-warp" into an auction-ward, it takes
several seconds until a dozen of twitching zombies suddenly appear around
you out of nowhere. Creepy.