Extremely annoyed by market wards

[Jashynvald]

Well, for those of you not on the more populous servers, be prepared to encounter this after the merge. I can screenshot all the wards being full if someone doesn't believe it, but that would be a very long screenshot.

I finally managed to get one of my retainers in the Middle Tailor's Ward last night, after trying once daily (checking every ward in Ul'dah) for a week.

Yeah, didn't really consider that when thinking about the merges. On the bright side, maybe it'll get people out of Ul'dah and populate the other Market Wards (you heard me Brine and Kindling, go back to your own cities). Maybe the other empty wards were just a question of "not enough people to make space an issue."

[Elexia]

I really hope not, because if thats true then its a big fail on SE side. I mean the servers barly has any players on and the wards are already full?!!

Hey, the players asked them to not reset wards/they crashed too much. If it's a fail on anyone..it's not SE lol. Ward reset cleared emptied/no longer used retainers quite regularly.

[Raldo]

Do they still get removed after 7 days of non-use? I seem to recall that, but I can't remember where...

[lackofwords]

I have seen nothing in any post from SE that even suggests this will be addressed in 2.0.

We are planning on linking all three market wards together in 2.0! The reason behind not being able to link them earlier than that is due to the current system limitations.

Other than that they haven't done anything to hint at changing the current market scheme until 2.0 arrives.

[Dreamer]

The problem isn't the market ward concept but rather SE's implementation. Whatever designer thought it was an okay idea to have retainers sitting all over the bloody floor for seven days with no upkeep needs to be fired yesterday. What a horrible idea.

Market wards need to A) REQUIRE stalls for all merchants and B) automatically spawn one or two extra shards per wards as needed. There also needs to be some sort of incentive to plant your retainer somewhere besides Ul'dah.

Market wards are a nifty idea, but a horrible implementation. unfortunately, first impressions stay with people, which is likely why they're being forced towards the AH model.

[Vanguard319]

It's not unlike the AH in XI, the only one that most players tended to use was the Jeuno/Tavnazia/Whitegate system, as those were the areas that people would frequent. In XIV, most people have decided that Ul'dah is the hub, with 2 retainers per player, I could see how that could quickly become an issue.

[Mug]

What I dislike the most is that you get kicked back to main menu after each purchase. I bought three Aquamarine rings yesterday and it sucked having to go through the menus three times to get them. And then there's the lag after each purchase...

Anyway, I'm sure the following patches will streamline the wards and the search function a bit, as it all feels very half-done as it is.

[Miyaka_Vigiles]

What I dislike the most is that you get kicked back to main menu after each purchase. I bought three Aquamarine rings yesterday and it sucked having to go through the menus three times to get them. And then there's the lag after each purchase...

Anyway, I'm sure the following patches will streamline the wards and the search function a bit, as it all feels very half-done as it is.

I got excited when I learned that I can buy from search funtion. but after trying it few times I went back to walking to the retainers themselves.

The game freeze that happens after the purchase is very long and annoying, not to mention the case where I need to buy multiple stacks.

[Ruri]

Maybe 70% of the wards are full in Uldah on Mysidia. On the verge of completely lame but nothing can be done until server's fixed in 2.0 (hopefully)

[Conradus]

Every single market ward in Ul'dah is full on Selbina, and has been for quite some time.

I would assume it is also the case that all the market stalls are full as well, then...