Wards full again

[Seif]

Insert the ability to see price histories, proceed to make buying straight from the search screen.

Let people call it MW if they want but market the feature as WE HAVE AN AH NOW!!!! To the masses of people who left because of the lack of this very system that 20% of the people wanted in the poll.

[TheVedis]

What happens if everyone's retainer is selling something?

then they are all selling something, tough luck

but alot of people have nothing up and they are placeholders

[Wolfie]

then they are all selling something, tough luck

but alot of people have nothing up and they are placeholders

That's a BS answer. "Tough luck" is not an answer you want to give to a player when he/she can't sell an item, especially when you can fix it.

[Leenk]

"What if" situations seem a bit stupid to bring up at this point. The fact is, not every retainer is selling something. FFXIV is receiving its fixes over time. The market wards work and work pretty well. These "band-aids" are enough to keep the system functional while they focus on more important matters.
We had alot in this last patch that we didnt see coming. It's fair to assume that we'll see the same in the next two patches. Dont be surprised if some overhaul to the wards is in those patches

[TheVedis]

That's a BS answer. "Tough luck" is not an answer you want to give to a player when he/she can't sell an item, especially when you can fix it.

ok lets giv you the real answer then

use another ward! stop being so stubborn

[Betelgeuzah]

But what if they ARE selling everything? What if the system crashes when only 75% of the people on the server want to sell items? If you have a simple, easy to implement system that can handle the worst case scenario, why on earth would you implement a more complex system that can't handle the worst case scenario?

What?

I already addressed how to fix this with a simple, yet slightly time consuming addition. Like I already said, the original concept of MW was buried with the addition of item search. The hardest part is already done.

[Wolfie]

"What if" situations seem a bit stupid to bring up at this point. The fact is, not every retainer is selling something. FFXIV is receiving its fixes over time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best,_w...d_average_case

"What if" scenarios aren't stupid, they're part of designing good programs.

It boggles my mind that you guys are defending a patently worse and less user friendly system over a simpler and dramatically superior one.

[Rinsui]

The wards.
Like warts,
on the emerging face
of a developing game.

[Renshi]

Put your retainers into other cities and sell =)
"You can't sell sh*t in other cities." Well, it's not that EVERYBODY lives in Ul'dah.

[TonyMontana]

I wonder if any MMO made in the next 10 years by a huge corp. like SE will choose to make their MMO without an AH? I wonder if the rest of the industry learned (if they didnt already know) the pitfalls of not having an AH. SE is being taught first hand but they are slow learners.