Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Amage]

SE plans are to never get rid of retainers because they going to charge for the extra ones now if you have alot of gear and all the crap we collect and have craft your gonna be spending hella money

and they force you to not have account mules since they can only trade 4 at a time and retainers u can trade while in window

[Racht]

I'd just rather they keep the Market Wards and turn it into an Ebay "Buy It Now!" featured market system. Would work amazingly well that way. Just let us, for example:

Item Search -> Select Ward -> Select Category -> Scroll/Find Item and Click -> Opens Buy It Now menu -> Click Yes

Huzzah. Item is yours. That's how it should be.

[Viridiana]

I'd just rather they keep the Market Wards and turn it into an Ebay "Buy It Now!" featured market system. Would work amazingly well that way. Just let us, for example:

Item Search -> Select Ward -> Select Category -> Scroll/Find Item and Click -> Opens Buy It Now menu -> Click Yes

Huzzah. Item is yours. That's how it should be.

Well, ideally they'd also improve the search feature. But, yes, this is what needs to happen.

[shankem]

im amazed at all the peple that want to waste their time wondering the MW , scrap them or do a major overhaul!!!

[BONKERS]

I'm more concerned with this whole "charging you for retainers" thing...
That concerns me because in no way possible is only 100 ITEM SLOTS ENOUGH.
I gotta have retainers just to store all the items I gather and various pieces of equipment I don't need.

That said, I do like the idea of the sort of "Search and buy it now" idea someone had.
That way it's sort of like the A-H.
I also wish that the Market Wards were connected. Would make finding stuff a bit easier than having to constantly travel between the 3 City-States

[unnameduser]

ah > market wards.

[Viridiana]

So, I'm curious about something. SE's now given us incentives to move to other cities, what with Gridania now having the best SP out of all the leves and Uldah having the worst. Now, a lot of people seemed to be under the impression that this would help solve the Uldah wards' crowding issue. So, I thought I'd ask if you guys have noticed any improvement on your servers yet?

As for Lindblum, it's hard to say. Gridania is certainly getting *some* people coming in, but the ratio of, say, Crab Bows between Uldah and Gridania is still ~47:2, last I checked.

[Seif]

So, I'm curious about something. SE's now given us incentives to move to other cities, what with Gridania now having the best SP out of all the leves and Uldah having the worst. Now, a lot of people seemed to be under the impression that this would help solve the Uldah wards' crowding issue. So, I thought I'd ask if you guys have noticed any improvement on your servers yet?

As for Lindblum, it's hard to say. Gridania is certainly getting *some* people coming in, but the ratio of, say, Crab Bows between Uldah and Gridania is still ~47:2, last I checked.

No nonononono the problem isn't the crowding or bad server programming. It's the fact that these problems are being dealt with in the first place.

Even without these problems the MW is still too much of a pain to use because you're browsing through a zombie-fest. Just give us an AH and work on ACTUAL user friendliness issues rather than trying to make the wards less painful. When you force players to Zone for a purchase and then don't give them price histories you've already failed at building a working economy.

SE is throwing huge amounts of money away for completely useless features that won't make the majority any more accepting of the fact that this game doesn't have economy as part of the gameplay.

[Viridiana]

No nonononono the problem isn't the crowding or bad server programming. It's the fact that these problems are being dealt with in the first place.

Even without these problems the MW is still too much of a pain to use because you're browsing through a zombie-fest. Just give us an AH and work on ACTUAL user friendliness issues rather than trying to make the wards less painful. When you force players to Zone for a purchase and then don't give them price histories you've already failed at building a working economy.

SE is throwing huge amounts of money away for completely useless features that won't make the majority any more accepting of the fact that this game doesn't have economy as part of the gameplay.

I agree (with most of that). However, some people were convinced that the root of the problem was people crowding into Uldah for leve groups. Since that issue's been dealt with (Uldah's no longer the best area for leves), I figure if the problem continues/worsens, those people should have to explain why the "solution" isn't working. . .

[TheVedis]

I agree (with most of that). However, some people were convinced that the root of the problem was people crowding into Uldah for leve groups. Since that issue's been dealt with (Uldah's no longer the best area for leves), I figure if the problem continues/worsens, those people should have to explain why the "solution" isn't working. . .

cuz now that they are all there they are too lazy to move out of fear their stuff wont sell in other wards