Auction House Idea...BLOW YOUR MIND

[ScapeZero]

WoW/Diablo III style AH would suit me just fine, I don't want none of that blind bidding s*** like in in FFXI though.

Blind bidding is really the best way to do things. Otherwise you have items being undercut by large amounts like we have present in XIV, which was rarely the case in XI. When you know the amount other people are selling for, you know the amount to put yours up for...Which will almost always be less than theirs. No ones going to buy the more expensive item, so we have everyone bring down the price of items, and youll see say a 50k item bouncing back and forth between 15 and 50k.

If you make it blind, people have no idea if the item was undercut by 5k or not. Most people arent going to just keeping lesser amounts until they finally buy it. Therefore, prices stay pretty stable for most items, and undercutting isnt as large of an issue.

[Fear]

I want a AH like FFXI, I want to pay a set price and get my item strait away, I don't wanna bid and have to wait or risk being outbid.

[viion]

Do one like Guildwars, its epic.

Its 1 AH, every server/world shares it. Its in your menu, you dont go to a "place", its built into the UI.

Its default page lists popular things, and things you commonly in demand (which i luv) you can view prices, see history and buy.

As its in the UI, you can right click any of your items in your inventory and hit "Sell on AH" and boom window shows up asking how much and it remembers your previous amount so you could just click OK. Super fast.

It also "combines" (bit like XI) where it says Item (Amount)

[Kafeen]

It might work for a system of selling rare items, but it'd be a bit slow for selling your more day to day items.

For more common items I'd rather see a few NPC merchants. Rather than the multiple ward we have now, have a single instance of it with an NPC merchant in each of the stalls.

Each merchant buy and sells a particular type of good respective of the wards we have currently.

Have each item for sale shown with the current lowest price someone has been willing to sell it for along with other items listed as out of stock.

[Wolfie]

While we're at it, why don't we also get an official FFXIV boxing glove to punch ourselves in the d**k with, because we are all obviously masochists.

[Alhanelem]

Don't want to bid on and wait for stuff. Just want to buy it and be done with it. The one feature of an AH we really don't need.

[Jokerz]

Honestly I would like to see an ah similar to FFXI's with a blind bidding system. Only reason for this is because it keeps prices somewhat stable, it's fair to all, and if you wanted to undercut something, it generally wouldn't destroy the items value.

But I would like to see an ebay twist for melded gears, you know a by it now price, a min asking price and such.

[Wolfie]

Honestly I would like to see an ah similar to FFXI's with a blind bidding system. Only reason for this is because it keeps prices somewhat stable, it's fair to all, and if you wanted to undercut something, it generally wouldn't destroy the items value.

But I would like to see an ebay twist for melded gears, you know a by it now price, a min asking price and such.

Define "fair." Because regardless of AH/MW system, I can do the same thing the next person can. That seems fair to me.

[Griss]

I want a AH like FFXI, I want to pay a set price and get my item strait away, I don't wanna bid and have to wait or risk being outbid.

Dear Mr Fear I would like to introduce you to the world of buy out prices.

A buyout price in a modern day "auction house" is a total the seller can set that says if you want this item now you will pay this much. It is a standard feature in games as well.

True it is not a fix all solution but its beneficial for both ends of the transaction when used correctly.

[Jokerz]

Define "fair." Because regardless of AH/MW system, I can do the same thing the next person can. That seems fair to me.

I guess fair isn't the right word but it helps keep things stable. I mean there should be no reason why I gather something and put it up for sale, and in less then an hour it drops by 50% of then value of the item(after me undercutting the lowest seller)

Don't get me wrong, I like the current system, but mainly for gear, particularly melded pieces. For everything else, the system feels like more of a headache to navigate every 5 mins to change my price to the current trend. Not to mention you can't even search for +1 things which further hinders it...