Wow, no mention of Auction house / MW improvements

[grandm]

Just like the Rolanberry Markets were separate entity from the AH in XI, the wards would be separate from an AH in XIV.

The MW would just be there for whoever still uses it. It would not be the featured means of buying and selling goods. All of the tutorials in the game would lead people to the AH, because it would be the focal point of trade in the economy.

The auction house that I proposed is the most logical, user-friendly method to buy and sell goods, and it is close enough to the current system that people would not have to learn something completely new in regards to the mechanics. It would just cut out the completely unnecessary middle man of zoning into the wards, and hunting down an NPC for every item you want to buy. It would save time, solve confusion, and frustration on both ends of the market.

you seem to be over looking the fact SE went with market wards to stand this game apart from other MMO's. if they wanted a AH in the first place you would have one. its most likely a re-vamp of the market wards you can expect in the future

[Tsuga]

I don't think your plan will work. You'll ruin the wards, and have a crappy Auction House. Absolutely no one will be happy with that.

Exactly. With that plan (Molly's plan I mean) you're only getting a half-hashed version of both systems. You aren't getting a streamlined AH, and you aren't getting an open bazaar that the wards are supposed to be.

you seem to be over looking the fact SE went with market wards to stand this game apart from other MMO's. if they wanted a AH in the first place you would have one. its most likely a re-vamp of the market wards you can expect in the future

Functional, easy to understand, user-friendly mechanics need to come before "immersion", and "differentiation" in EVERY facet of EVERY game. It isn't an excuse for a sloppy, half-assed system. They could have differentiated this game from every other MMO by making me control it with my via spiked dildo, that wouldn't have made it any better.