Mail, AH and Banks

[Medura]

Honestly? I don't think there is a way to still keep the graphical market wards and still have it be viable. There's way too much overhead involved when keeping rendered retainers around, and if they introduce a secondary system that isn't severely crippled like FFXI's AH, MW will pretty much die off.

But they can make it be a good, viable system while still not giving it a WOW-esque feel by just moving everything to a menu/text based interface. By that, I mean you'd still have to place items on a retainer to sell/repair/whatever them, you just don't have to go toss him in a dungeon. Removing the need to place retainers in a zone will have amazing effects on the organization, user friendliness, and stability.

To give you an idea of what that might look like, it would be like player shops from Neopets or Amazon.com's scheme (user-made shops, no auctions, can browse whole shop, etc).

If they really want market wards, its actually old news, or rather, nothing new. See perfect world, they got both wards and AH, and it works great! Let us put up shops in town, that would be cool!

[Onidemon]

If they really want market wards, its actually old news, or rather, nothing new. See perfect world, they got both wards and AH, and it works great! Let us put up shops in town, that would be cool!

Yeah i too believe that wards and AH can co-exist if done properly. Maybe AH could concentrate on gear and rare items or just gear from drops and the wards would be for raw materials, gear that was made by crafters, repairs etc....

[Wolfie]

Yeah i too believe that wards and AH can co-exist if done properly. Maybe AH could concentrate on gear and rare items or just gear from drops and the wards would be for raw materials, gear that was made by crafters, repairs etc....

I would say it would be the other way around. Raw materials and things that are in high demand need to be able to sell fast and easily, while rare items, finished items, and slow selling things can sit on a retainer for a while with no issue. It's how it went in FFXI; bazaars only sold things that were too slow selling and expensive to keep relisting on the AH, and things that literally could not be put up on the AH.

[Cairdeas]

I would say it would be the other way around. Raw materials and things that are in high demand need to be able to sell fast and easily, while rare items, finished items, and slow selling things can sit on a retainer for a while with no issue. It's how it went in FFXI; bazaars only sold things that were too slow selling and expensive to keep relisting on the AH, and things that literally could not be put up on the AH.

My Organics sat in my bazaar so long it devalued more then I ever paid for it, so I just decided to keep the damn thing and was using it as an offhand on my War/Dancer

[Onidemon]

I would say it would be the other way around. Raw materials and things that are in high demand need to be able to sell fast and easily, while rare items, finished items, and slow selling things can sit on a retainer for a while with no issue. It's how it went in FFXI; bazaars only sold things that were too slow selling and expensive to keep relisting on the AH, and things that literally could not be put up on the AH.

That works too, either way as long as we can have both to please everyone and make buy/selling more efficient and enjoyable.

[Atoli]

See perfect world, they got both wards and AH, and it works great! Let us put up shops in town, that would be cool!

NO! Please don't ever do this!
Perfect World is the best example on how things should NEVER be..>,<'
There are few things more ugly and horrible and inconvient and more slowing down my internet connection than hundreds and thousands of retainers camping the streets of every bigger town.
The market wards are great, and if they ever allow retainers to stand around ANYWHERE ELSE, I'll quit instantly.

Btw, I don't think we need an AH.
It would be enough to update the search function we have right now, so it shows ALL items you search for, and items already sold vanishing from the list.
But I wouldn't mind an AH either.
Just no retainers on my streets!=___='