Quote Originally Posted by iWaRTuRTLeS View Post
I miss having bazaars and a little comment section under player profile like in XI. Why wasnt the bazaar ever implemented in this game? Used to love shopping on jueno block for things.
So they did, originally, recreate bazaars in a roundabout way. In 1.0, retainers were available to station permanently in the Market Wards. Great in concept, right? Except there was not enough room in the hallway to load all the character models, and you had to click each character to see what they had, because there was no actual market board.

Part of the patches to 1.x that Yoshi P implemented included a proper search function in the market wards, but a hundred zombies afk and flickering as they loaded on and off is a lot less appealing than the Jeuno markets were.

By 2.0 the market ward concept was scrapped, and retainers became invisible. They added back the ability to display retainers outside of houses, with the ability to browse things for sale, back when housing was added.