Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[TonyMontana]

I am looking forward to the Auction house any word on when it will be available?

[Defmetal]

We don't really need an auction house, the market wards do everything an AH does except that you have to pick up your item(s).

What does an AH do that you can't do in the wards?

[Gath]

We don't really need an auction house, the market wards do everything an AH does except that you have to pick up your item(s).

What does an AH do that you can't do in the wards?

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An AH just makes people lazy, with this way of th market wards I feel I am at a mall. . .minus the EMO

[Suirieko]

At first I felt we should have Auction House, but ever since they fixed up Market Ward, I actually prefer Market Ward to Auction House. I feel it has a lot more possibility this way and can work better. There's still some issues (IE the ward keeps crashing, thus dumping all the retainers). Once the issues get fixed, and gets more feature, it will be better.

[LoydTallister]

I really see that at this point an AH would be redundant I know they want to have a different system and I like it but it can lead to more impulse buys haha

[Defmetal]

Although I'd almost prefer if you couldn't name your retainers, sometimes its nice to know who your buying from

[Aramil]

I agree, now that there's a search function I also prefer the current wards system to an AH. I find it nice to be able to manage your storage and bazaar at the same time.

[Sovereign]

Well, it would still be nice to have an actual counter with an NPC instead of a bunch of people standing in a line right infront of the market wards... But also, since you asked...

- An AH that connects all 3 cities would be wonderful
- Being able to see a price history (e.g. the AH from FFXI)
- Not having to go between multiple retainers to sell items, instead being able to drop everything at one counter

Just to name a few. =P

Edit: I guess the short version is that the market wards are a (still sub-optimal) way of solving a problem that has already been solved in a far more elegant way.

[TheVedis]

From what we know, the AH is not a guarentee right now. They are still looking into the impact of the current ward system.

But in all seriousness, with the way the current system is in its current incarnation....we dont really need an AH.

Especialy when you add in all the improvements im sure they still have planned for it.

[Xeno]

At first I felt we should have Auction House, but ever since they fixed up Market Ward, I actually prefer Market Ward to Auction House. I feel it has a lot more possibility this way and can work better. There's still some issues (IE the ward keeps crashing, thus dumping all the retainers). Once the issues get fixed, and gets more feature, it will be better.

This. We really don't need an auction house now, and the state of the game is in, this definitely should not be SE's priority.