To all those people that loved the MW and did not want an AH

[vax]

The problem with market ward is when you want to sell anything. You put something on 10k and someone will see that and put it to 5k... At least doesn't happen with an AH.

[Arcell]

The problem with market ward is when you want to sell anything. You put something on 10k and someone will see that and put it to 5k... At least doesn't happen with an AH.

Undercutting happens, gotta deal with it. Some people like to play the market and profit off of such things, that's on them. It's a competitive scene. Honestly the only system that doesn't happen in is XI's obnoxiously stupid guess-buying system. Even that's not really auctioning, which would be starting with a price and people bidding for it with bids getting progressively higher until the time is up.

The biggest downfall of the Market Wards system is honestly the amount of people. With more and more people a problem starts to arise where specific wards become full and now people can't sell things in the appropriate ward. Some say this encourages people to move to other cities but it generally doesn't work out if you do.

Since we're getting buy from menu, the next logical step (in my mind at least) would be to make them global so that people are encouraged to put their retainers up in the other city wards. At least that way their goods stand a chance of even getting seen.

They way the Market Wards are now is fine. It's balanced with not so many freaken retainers flooding the screen on each floor.

Just remove the restriction and tax impaired to each ward so players can set up shop for w/e item they want to sell.

Call the floors, "market #1, market #2, etc."

Funny thing is, that's how it was at launch. However it was the most awful thing in the game because we didn't have an item search feature, so they separated them.

[KaiKatzchen]

The problem with market ward is when you want to sell anything. You put something on 10k and someone will see that and put it to 5k... At least doesn't happen with an AH.

Hate to break it to ya, but yes it does happen in an AH too. People would always undercut others on the AH in FFXI so their items would sell first, that's why the prices fluctuated up and down on items. Only difference is we could only see what people paid in the past on the AH so we had to play the guessing game, where here we can see what people are charging currently without the prices being hidden.

MW or AH, someone will find a way to abuse it, period.