Auction House vs Wards

[Titans]

I'm too tired to think of a great way they can implement the ward system, but none of the posts have given me a good enough reason to remotely entertain keeping it. I'm gonna chalk this up as Retarded Idea #1, followed by Gear Sets IF they require "multiple items"... that'd be Retarded Idea #2.

You sound like the sun rises and shine on you only. Who cares what you want. You don't like the game because of the MWs. Leave the game don't pay for another subscription. Doesn't mean that everyone of us will quit because you left. Get over it or leave your choice.

[Duelle]

MW as main market system. MW has all the features of an auction house plus more. It just needs efficiency improvements. Clearly nobody complaining about the MWs have ever used the search interface, because that pretty much works the same as any auction house.
Listing stuff for sale however does need to become a lot simpler. All they have to do is address that and it will be a fine system.

The main issue is that the listings are not linked. Hence why everyone fights over spaces for their retainer in the Uldah wards. Granted, this is but one of the problems encouraging everyone to hang out in one city instead of spreading out.

I'm sure people would go to the appropriate wards if they could spread out in all cities without fear of their wares NOT being seen.

[Titans]

"The issue that players would first like to see addressed is a general lack of game content, followed by changes to the battle system. Looking further, it seems that the type of content most strongly desired is quests and miniquests, accounting for about 40% of the responses. The auction house has also made a solid showing among the responses, no doubt due in part to the fact that, as previously mentioned, many of the pollees are or were FFXI players. My initial reaction was to interpret this as players stating that they want more adventures in Eorzea! More gil and loot!" ~ Letter from the Producer I 1/21/2011.

Like I previous stated, this is not FFXI. The wards wasn't perfect in the beginning so they made it better than what it were. Made it's very similar to your AH, your just to lazy and spoil.

[Yrusama]

They have said that they want to combine the market wards into one. The mercantile houses were only a first step, but we should be able to access them from any city in 2.0. This will resolve the complaints about having horrible markets in certain cities.

I'd like to know if there's any possibility of adding more wards in the event that the server population fills up too fast, either that or maybe an ongoing fee that players will need to pay to have a space in there, like the fees for stalls. I didn't at first, but I like the market ward system in its current form. The only thing it's really lacking (besides space for everyone) is the ability to scroll through ALL sellers of the same item. There have been times where I wanted to buy HQ, but couldn't because the list was full of NQs. A few tweaks to the interface and the ward system would be fine. And yes, this comes from someone who has played XI for many years.

[Sagagemini]

Thank you SE for keeping the markets wards. Glad that SE stood it's ground about market wards and not switching to an AH. This is not FFXI. If you want an AH take your arse back to XI.

You are pretty stupid.
90% of all MMOs out there use the AH/Broker system. FFXI DID NOT INVENT IT.
I'ts much easier and fast.

[Beorhtel_Fet]

My main issue with MW is that I have to physically go into the wards and find my retainer and then put the items on my retainer. Then I have to run to see the price so I can price my item so it can sell, and then go back and price them. If all of this could be streamlined into something that could be done from a menu I wouldn't mind so much. If that isn't done the MW will still be an annoyance at least to me.

As far as the other features are concerned, at least on my server nearly nobody uses them. If a feature isn't used it's pointless to have. The last time I have seen any of those features used in fact was probably the week of launch.

I myself would suggest putting in an Auction House with bid and buyout features. Also, I would remove the option to bazaar from the player character themselves, but keep the retainers and Market Wards and use them as storage and bazaars. In FFXI it was always kind of an annoyance to me that you had to be logged in to bazaar your items that you didn't want to sell on the AH because of things like an insanely high fee to post the item up. With this system in place the MW and retainers could function as like a designated bazaar area/alternate place to buy items other than AH and the player wouldn't have to be logged in to have the items up. I would have the retainer posted in the player's estate where they would speak with/summon them and have them function similar to a mog house and give the option to have them bazaar items in the wards.

[Jaimie]

Here's how I buy stuff

go to uldah cuz thats where everyone sells stuff
go into any ward cuz i cant search from outside the wards
search
select the ward i think the item is in
select the type of item i think it is
scroll thru the list it would be nice if it were sorted by rank
check the stats price etc
if i like i mark it
then i gotta start a new search for maybe a better item
then i gotta move to the ward where the item is being sold
when I get there find the retainer
buy the item if it hasn't been sold already


WARDS SUCK I WANT AN AUCTION HOUSE

[Titans]

You are pretty stupid.
90% of all MMOs out there use the AH/Broker system. FFXI DID NOT INVENT IT.
I'ts much easier and fast.

You sound pretty stupid. I like something that you don't like, I'm stupid for it really?? But this isn't about me, and I don't play other MMOs. I don't care what other MMOs are doing, I care what this one is doing. Keep it challenging at all aspects of the game. This thread is about one who is mad that they can't sell there crap, because they can't get a retainer into Ul'dah's wards.

[Sagagemini]

You sound pretty stupid. I like something that you don't like, I'm stupid for it really?? But this isn't about me. But I don't play other MMOs. I don't care what other MMOs are doing, I care what this one is doing. Keep it challenging at all aspects of the game. This thread is about one who is mad that they can't sell there crap, because they can't get a retainer into Ul'dah's ward.

To sum it up you're saying: "I don't care what you are doing. I don't care what other MMOs are doing. All i care is that i like MW and i want that way"
So manly! Hahahha
You sir are a joke. Keep on posting and i'll keep on laughing.

[Jaimie]

"The issue that players would first like to see addressed is a general lack of game content, followed by changes to the battle system. Looking further, it seems that the type of content most strongly desired is quests and miniquests, accounting for about 40% of the responses. The auction house has also made a solid showing among the responses, no doubt due in part to the fact that, as previously mentioned, many of the pollees are or were FFXI players. My initial reaction was to interpret this as players stating that they want more adventures in Eorzea! More gil and loot!" ~ Letter from the Producer I 1/21/2011.

Like I previous stated, this is not FFXI. The wards wasn't perfect in the beginning so they made it better than what it were. Made it's very similar to your AH, your just to lazy and spoil.

I may be lazy BUT I waste enough time in game running from point A to point B, waiting to get/start a xp party, searching the web (cuz some crap in this game is confuzin as hell) for quest help/mob location etc., to have to deal with the bullshit MW mechanics.