Honestly, one of the slight blessings of the market ward system that nobody ever considers is the alleviation of a lot of lag. In every MMO out there that possesses an auction house system you always have a massive swarm of characters camping the auction house. No matter what time of day you go by it, there will be hundreds of people sitting there (since barely hundreds play FF14 on besaid server at the same time on ff14, that number is obviously scaled down proportionately).

Honestly, there isnt much threat to this game. Every player on the server could go stand in uldah and it wouldnt slow down that much, cuz there just isnt that many people playing the game anymore. But if the game ever gets a sizable player base back, it's going to have the same annoying issue where going to the auction house results in a drop to your FPS.

Don't get me wrong, i support the ability to shop from the menu... But this was one benefit the wards actually gave to us.