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.

[Synfrag]

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.

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.

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.

You continue to contradict yourself in your own posts as well as over generalize. I'm not trying to pick it apart but you are defending a broken system while at the same time praising it.

It has been broken since Alpha, in Alpha we said change it. In Beta we said change it. At launch we said change it. And in 2.0 we are saying change it. This is not a key feature of the game. Just like people have said in previous posts. Go with the standard here and spend resources on content.

In the end, as long as I can post an item in less than 10s from arriving at a non-instanced/zoned location and buy one just as quickly I don't really care. But currently we are facing issues like changing zones just to shop, not being able to see prices and immediately sell and item. We also can't see beyond the cheapest 20 items and a myriad of other issues. The only plus this currently carries is the storage space end of story. You cannot argue this further. There is absolutely no benefit.

Give us a storage in our houses and make an AH. Better yet, lets model it off the current world standards. Let me drop it on the ground ah la Elder Scrolls, set it up wherever I like and have an AH terminal in my house so I can sell stuff on FFbay.com