I miss bazaars from XI

[Fawkes]

I miss Rolanmart back in 11. Fun just checking on what people had up for sale. Then there was the time that Simurgh glitched out and chased a person all the way to the entrance of Jeuno and killed all the people who were AFK or had mules up in Rolanmart. A GM had to be called to kill the damn thing to reset it.

I've always been under the assumption that retainers in 1.0 were the result of somebody at SE seeing Rolanmart and thinking it was our preferred method of buying and selling things and not just a way to dodge taxes. And then they realized they could charge players to hire an NPC to stand around afk for them.

[Barraind]

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.

They're fun, but with more than a handful of traders, you need an interface to deal with item finding anyway, and if you have the interface, you can tie it to something that DOESNT cause massive server load issues.

Even games that still use bazaars figured out the best way to deal with it was to let you buy remotely and automatically send purchases to a mailbox / mail npc / your bags.

[Jkap_Goat]

I would have loved to see it

[Hawklaser]

FFXI veteran here, I do miss some stuff from XI too, sneaking due some monsters aggro by sound/sight/smell etc, having to actually walk to get places, music, summoner with full model avatars, hard to acomplish level breaks due Maat fights... but BAZZARDS???!

They do have sound/sight/blood agro coded into XIV, most just ride their mount every where so don't really notice it anymore, especially since level factors into it as well.

The other crazy thing about player bazaars, some cheeky and daring merchants would also go out and sell things in unexpected locations. High traffic areas people might need sneak/invis consumables? Check. Leveling party locations where someone might have run out of or forgot their food? Check. Gathering locals where one might want some more tools or get rid of mats not after? Check. BCNM or other NM pop locations where certain items could be very handy? Check.

But I certainly don't miss sifting through thousands of bazaars to maybe find one item. They were useful for selling, but not so much for buying.

[Anienai]

Rolanberry Fields memories...

[Alleluia]

I would have loved to see it

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya90yAIYIVM

[Machi_Machiavelli]

I enjoyed ffxi, I've been paying it since last year but omg is it a better game, the sense of danger around every corner, jobs really stood from each other, the story....I wish for ffxi remastered

I wholeheartedly agree. That is one game that left you with a sense of accomplishment completing even the most simple of task. Like making it to Selbina at night in the dunes.


alas, there are somethings we'll never see in XIV. Like Bazaars, actual summons, a bluemage that isn't limited, refresh, gear swaps mid combat, leveling down (could you imagine trials and raids lol), reraise just to name a few.

[Gwaeron]

On a related note, while they weren't great, what I really miss about the bazaaring retainers is the ability to purchase any amount you wanted instead of the amount decided by the seller. I just need one ore, not 99, damn it!

[TaleraRistain]

In EQ it was the East Commonlands tunnel that was our major person-to-person trading hub. Then Planes of Power brought about the Bazaar, where you could keep your toon afk in trader mode. But even they eventually introduced offline trading and the ability to buy from anywhere in the game. It's just not a system that really works in modern MMOs.

[RaideDuku]

Last time they introduced FFXI-like mechanics, we got Eureka.

Be careful what you wish for on that cursed monkey paw.