AH info lost in the sauce?

[Anathiel]

I want a functional Menu Driven Marketward that refuses to use any form of Bidding Mechanic or Price History. With Prices being WYSIWYG.

So...you wouldn't welcome (For example!) A system where... let's say its 2007 and there's One krakens club for an entire ff:xi server, you put it up on a bidding auction and watch the gil flood in. That is one of the reasons I could see the benefit of a free auction. Rare items are worth whatever people are willing to pay, what's wrong with that?

[Delsus]

So...you wouldn't welcome (For example!) A system where... let's say its 2007 and there's One krakens club for an entire ff:xi server, you put it up on a bidding auction and watch the gil flood in. That is one of the reasons I could see the benefit of a free auction. Rare items are worth whatever people are willing to pay, what's wrong with that?

The problem with that is you cant just get the item, it would defeat the object of being faster than the wards because you would have to stand around for the auction to end costantly bidding, whats not to stop people putting em up for a 1hr auction so to get a weapon and full armour you are looking at 6hrs (not including accessories like belts chokers and rings) to get them which no one would do, so your system would only work for single things people wanted.

As you say if theres one kraken club for the whole server you could put it up for 200mil and people would pay it its called supply and demand.

Cairdeas's idea is the best I have seen for the market wards and should get looked into by the devs.

[Lerris]

Its semantics, I call it an AH because that's what its called in every other MMO. You can hate on the name of it, but that's what's it called. People new to a game are called amateurs but we call them noobs. Its just a word. And part of the info I'm trying to get is if they do indeed implement AH's how would they do so.

Semantics is extremely important when dealing with a multilingual community. Words mean what they mean, not what we want them to mean.

Look at Yoshi's use of the correct English meaning of "raid" in place of the corrupted Everquest/WoW meaning of the word.

[Cairdeas]

So...you wouldn't welcome (For example!) A system where... let's say its 2007 and there's One krakens club for an entire ff:xi server, you put it up on a bidding auction and watch the gil flood in. That is one of the reasons I could see the benefit of a free auction. Rare items are worth whatever people are willing to pay, what's wrong with that?

Except this is 2011, And SE hasn't released any item as sought after as the Kraken Club and not made it untradable.