Quote Originally Posted by Draco View Post
I see your point with Rollenberry/Batillia Markets, however, I do not think that alternate means of trading really takes away from trading in an AH system. From what I remember from FFXI, the reason people really used traded in other ways on top of the AH was because FFXI put limits ( of course SE cannot possibly release anything without their personal limitation stamp now can they ) on how many items could be on auction at any given time. That, and certain items could not be sold in the auction house that could be sold through bazaar system and some items were so pricy that noone wanted to pay the tax to sell said item. For those reasons, people went to Battillia/Rollenberry. That is what I recall at least.
This is true and like I said MOST people use only the AH. Because MW is used only by a marginal percentage of the entire population it will never ever work. It honestly doesn't even matter if a few players like the MW. They alone can not make the economy work, ever.

When AH is implemented I'm sure MW will stay as the go-to place for super expensive items that are not worth to keep in the AH-slot. But majority will never end up using it in their daily play-routine.