Quote Originally Posted by Ferth View Post
Ugh sorry for the double post, but yes, the DATA servers won't change, but we won't need to have servers devoted to rooms full of mannequins if they make the wards a place you can't visit. That is the resource I am referring to. And seeing how it adds nothing to the gameplay experience having those wards it really shouldn't be that much of a sacrifice to remove them.
Whether or not it "adds anything to your gameplay experience" is subjective opinion. The fact is that outside of the fact that there is an NPC in the world represeting what you have for sale, the markets are functionally almost identical to an "auction house" and thus the system only needs to be optimized and adjusted at this point. Rebuilding from the ground up when you already have a (mostly) workable system is foolhardy at best. They can get it right without starting over.

The server resources devoted to the market are totally independent of the resources needed for anything else and making the markets more server-processing efficient will not impact anything not related to the markets.