Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
To be fair. . .

We don't need an AH as such, with bidding and the like. They could link the cities, do away with the physical wards, and have everyone buy straight from the search interface while charging the seller a flat 5% tax. Problem solved, and with (probably) less coding involved.
How is that what you just described not an AH? AH in XI works exactly the same way. In some cases like in Jeuno there's not even a physical counter from which you can open the AH menu just an NPC. But because XIV NPCs load a LOT slower than in XI I'd be happy if there's just the current menu and no NPC that you need to see before accessing the buying menu.

This is maybe OT but those counters at Hamlets look exactly like XI AH counters...