Extremely annoyed by market wards

[Conradus]

rent a stall then. i do it all the time. its only 500 gil per day(real time)

As a practical matter, since you can't buy time in advance, it's 500 gil twice a day unless you can afford briefly losing the stall when you get to it slightly after your 24 hours expire.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I have to say, I am more annoyed with how much items are than being too many people being in a wards.

45k for a level 12 Lance.

300k For a Felt Robe of Casting (Red)

30-40k on Ash Macuahuitl

Yeah alot of people can got to Hell for these prices.

No item in the game should be over 10k. It's all so common.

[Kiote]

Apparently You missed the "We are remaking the market system from the ground up in 2.0" comment from he devs.

It's broken. We know. Get over it. Move on.

[Kiote]

I have to say, I am more annoyed with how much items are than being too many people being in a wards.

45k for a level 12 Lance.

300k For a Felt Robe of Casting (Red)

30-40k on Ash Macuahuitl

Yeah alot of people can got to Hell for these prices.

No item in the game should be over 10k. It's all so common.

Think Yen Not Dollars.

[Douten]

I must say it is hard to get your retainer up, but don't give up! I tried in almost all wards and it was full then I went out and about and came back and luckily there was room! I was able to move my retainer again to the correct market ward for the stuff he sale soon later too :> it's really a matter of luck now, it is effing annoying and horrid, yes, but just gotta do with what we have until they bring in 2.0

As mentioned before they will link all market wards in 2.0 that's as much info as we have, but I'm sure they should have more things in the pipe for mw.

[Sidious]

Now that market wards have a search function (I especially like that you can put a star above anyone selling the item you want) it's much better than when I originally played at release.

That said, I believe an auction house is still necessary to replace the market wards. It just makes more sense from a gameplay standpoint.

[Altanas]

I'd really like to know what direction we are going in with the market wards, even if the cities are merged. If more players come in there will just be more chaos. Will it be replaced by a FF11 style AH in the end when v2 comes along and how will the market wards exist later on? what will their purpose be? I'd rather the devs field some community involvement to avoid another failure, at least give us a cryptic poll on the directions sought.

Theres so many retainers with items for ridiculous prices its obvious players are just using the bazaar slots for extra storage space and not for selling. Granted when we get housing no one will probably use the wards again for that. It makes you sad that new players rage quit when that level 10 cruddy hat of a massive +1 mnd costs 50k and the community dwindles further. It almost makes you want to ask for hard caps on sale prices for certain ranks/items.

I still think there should be a normal AH, and then restrict market ward use to retainers per linkshell of certain sizes who could vendor rarer items (aka. rolanberry mart from 11), i.e. the only retainers in the wards shown would be of guild leaders, only people who can put up items in that retainer's bazaar are leaders/officers, all members can view/take at certain levels via summonable retainer, public can buy through brining up bazaar/sale menu. Would condense things down a lot and also make guilds more close in a way. It would make more sense as theres a handful of stalls compared to the 50 or more retainers in a ward. Turning the retainer into the guild bank would make things easier for ls's in the long run. Each person's second retainer could then be shifted off for use in personal housing/inn if even needed.

The problem also relates to others issues
1) that everyone is self sufficient at everything. Anyone can make anything as there are no restrictions on crafting unlike in other MMOs. There is too much selling going on and not enough buying. There need to be more restrictions/dependancies on others to get a community thriving. You can have stacks of items up for dirt cheap but they will take ages to sell because people can farm 99 of anything almost too quickly.
2) there are way too many items and a lot of people cant even cope with 2 retainers for their own gear, and in the next major patch we will have job gear x 7 jobs more items lol

[KylePearlsand]

The only thing that really annoys me about the wards is that I can just enter the ward and find the retainer itself instead of buying it from the menus. I don't like the extra price that goes with it as someone said earlier the gear itself is expensive. Early game gear is hard enough to buy with early game money you know. Though you can just call me an 'old dog' for this.

[Elexia]

Gil sink, gear is only expensive because people like making 100-400% profit lol.

[Umo]

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

Get on the Time Machine.