Market Wards = Fail, they have attempted to correct the major problems with them and they have failed. Sorry, they reinvented the wheel and it won't move the game forward. Having an Auction House is core to any MMO, it cannot be replaced by a market ward system as SE has realized. They have only temporarily put a band aid on the market wards to buy themselves time to create an AH system. It will most likely be launched with a mail system which is also sitting on a huge pile of FAIL at this point.