Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Solfleur]

We don't really need an auction house, the market wards do everything an AH does except that you have to pick up your item(s).

What does an AH do that you can't do in the wards?

I assume you're joking? For one thing, it is too time consuming in an already tedious game of required crafting/farming to look up prices, even by using the Market Wards. Even if a player WANTS to go itemsearch by itemsearch and find a good price that way, if there's 0 of that item, you can't even go back and check what the last one sold for. Inflation is already rampant and new players starting out have no chance of advancement--we are priced out of the game at the "get go". I can only suspect two things. 1. SE is just too plain lazy/greedy to dedicate the necessary resources to address this issue or 2. though gil slaving/selling is supposedly not allowed, they are encouraging it....perhaps as a money making venture with slaves of their own. Either way, this should have been foreseen and addressed in beta. I am strongly considering leaving SE and while I can't stand WoW, I'm sure I can find some other GAME to PLAY that isn't that much WORK! Where is the fun. I mean I know it's Asian culture to ingrain mindless slavery among it's citizens, but we're not all Asian and many of us HAVE jobs!

[Seirra_Lanzce]

I assume you're joking? For one thing, it is too time consuming in an already tedious game of required crafting/farming to look up prices, even by using the Market Wards. Even if a player WANTS to go itemsearch by itemsearch and find a good price that way, if there's 0 of that item, you can't even go back and check what the last one sold for. Inflation is already rampant and new players starting out have no chance of advancement--we are priced out of the game at the "get go". I can only suspect two things. 1. SE is just too plain lazy/greedy to dedicate the necessary resources to address this issue or 2. though gil slaving/selling is supposedly not allowed, they are encouraging it....perhaps as a money making venture with slaves of their own. Either way, this should have been foreseen and addressed in beta. I am strongly considering leaving SE and while I can't stand WoW, I'm sure I can find some other GAME to PLAY that isn't that much WORK! Where is the fun. I mean I know it's Asian culture to ingrain mindless slavery among it's citizens, but we're not all Asian and many of us HAVE jobs!

Excuse me but what the different with AH item search and Market Wards Item search? They both function the same :P

[Solfleur]

Excuse me but what the different with AH item search and Market Wards Item search? They both function the same :P

You didn't read my entire post. That is y fault because it was long I suppose. But as I and many others have pointed out, there is no price history if there are 0 of an item in pricesearch. It's tedious in an already tedious game. Totally nonsensical...or corrupt.

[Solfleur]

Excuse me but what the different with AH item search and Market Wards Item search? They both function the same :P

Sorry, I meant Item Search, and :P back atcha.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Sorry, I meant Item Search, and :P back atcha.

so if the retainer system was added a price list history wouldn't that solve your problems?

[Wolfie]

so if the retainer system was added a price list history wouldn't that solve your problems?

Well, that addresses ONE of the issues that market wards still has.