Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Draven]

An Auction House is not needed. The only thing an AH will do is cut a little time of you running to the retainer. But then with an AH you might have to run to a mail box or somewhere else to get your item as well.

[Gath]

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

I agree with this, it could help somewhat with reducing the RMT involvement if we knew who each mule belonged to.

[ShinChuck]

I mean, really, the menus are all but an AH, just with the pointless addition of walking for no reason. I'd love for them to just bulldoze the wards entirely at this point, they're a relic of a mostly-discarded idea.

[Bethor]

The only disadvantage I'm seeing is the pure fact, that everyone crumbles in Uldah and Gridania/Limsa Wards are more or less empty.

I dunno what effort it would be to connect those 3 Wards into one. But once we getting Airships and better travel chances, the connection between those 3 cities are better. So a workaround would be an airship already.

But all in the all I'm happy with the wards, cept the crashing :O

(I hope there will be new update notes today ;3 )

[TheVedis]

The only disadvantage I'm seeing is the pure fact, that everyone crumbles in Uldah and Gridania/Limsa Wards are more or less empty.

I dunno what effort it would be to connect those 3 Wards into one. But once we getting Airships and better travel chances, the connection between those 3 cities are better. So a workaround would be an airship already.

But all in the all I'm happy with the wards, cept the crashing :O

(I hope there will be new update notes today ;3 )

This could be fixed by linking the wards to every city together

[Demacia]

If you could interact with the market wards through the UI instead of having to physically walk into a room full of stationary NPCs it would be much better. We could call it.... the market house, or MH for short.

It would not be an AH at all.

[BelgianRofl]

I can't understand why any of you would think the market wards are a better system than an auction house. Do you want this game to fail or to succeed?

I don't know about you, but I don't want to play an empty MMO.

You say the AH makes people lazy.... this is a video game that we're playing on our spare time. I spend my day earning money. I don't want to work on my leisure time.

[KorakeGorgon]

The problem I have with the Market Wards, is that after I search for my item through the lists, I have to physically go over to the NPC, check it and buy my item.

With an Auction House, I could buy the item directly from the list. It cuts out all the zoning and walking around, which takes up the majority of the time during your purchases.

Instead of taking 20+ minutes to buy new gear, it could take around 2 minutes instead. Why waste your time walking around in the wards, it's not really that interesting now is it?

[Victor]

Still rooting for an auction house personally.

[TheVedis]

The problem I have with the Market Wards, is that after I search for my item through the lists, I have to physically go over to the NPC, check it and buy my item.

With an Auction House, I could buy the item directly from the list. It cuts out all the zoning and walking around, which takes up the majority of the time during your purchases.

Instead of taking 20+ minutes to buy new gear, it could take around 2 minutes instead. Why waste your time walking around in the wards, it's not really that interesting now is it?

Sorry if I am misunderstanding, but are you saying, it takes you 20 minutes to walk from the entrance to an npc and buy a piece of gear?

Right now, tonight for instance, i went to buy new weaving tools cuz i was too lazy to make my own.
i was in and out in less then 2 minutes, with both a primary and secondary tool in my hands.