Auction House vs Wards

[Alhanelem]

The main issue is that the listings are not linked

This is already slated to be fixed in ARR. That's why I'm not talking about it. why complain about something that's already going to be fixed? What I haven't heard about yet is making it so we don't have to go through 300 menus to list an item for sale.

Yup like I said aside from the press and players who left even the majority of remaining players would prefer an AH.

Once the 3 cities are truly linked and selling items are fixed (e.g. people can actually sell stuff without worrying if the wards are "full" and without a million menus to go through), we'll essentially have an AH in every way but name, so player's preferences will be realized.

Currently, buyers have all the key features of an AH: Searching, Buying from a list, sales history, list showing cheapest items first. This is everything FFXI's AH did and more. This part is mostly fine. It's putting up stuff for sale that's convoluted and broken.

And I'll keep posting this til people realize how little difference there truly is right now beween what we have and an AH and people don't need to beg for what we already mostly have. All I see in this thread is a lot of baseless complaining, just saying "I want AH!" without any valid explanation. The MW can be fixed to be not only just like an AH, but superior to one.

Also every single review of XIV ever went to great lengths to ridicule the MW system as onee of the biggest flaws in the game. So you might want to think abou maybe?!

The concept of markets is not inherently flawed. It's just that SE's implementation was pretty shitty, especially at the beginning- but it was fixable, and they've fixed a lot of it already. People just beg for an AH because other games have one and they know it works. But that doesn't mean other systems can't be invented that also work.