Why so adamant on keeping the Market Place?

[Mack]

I don't understand why SE is so adamant on keeping the Market Place when clearly the majority of people want it gone. I would like an answer to this question, I want to know what plans they have for it other than charging for extra retainers, maybe if they can tell us that it'll drop the whole AH vs. MP debate and we can move on but I think the only reason they're sticking with it is so they can charge extra for extra retainers in the near future.

[TheVedis]

Why so adamant about getting rid of it?

on the same note some people like it more then other options

[Jennestia]

The AH and MW systems are basically one in the same now, the MW system is only lacking 2 aspects that a general AH system has, bidding and buying from search and a delivery system.

[Adol]

Before the item search was implemented and refined, I also wanted an AH. Ever since the item search was implemented and refined, however, I do not.

This is because it is extremely functional and performs everything you need in terms of buying/selling/repairing.
The only thing that needs to be done now (IMO) is fixing the constant crashes of the wards which seem to happen on a day to day basis on my server (Lindblum).

... and a delivery system.

The retainers act as a delivery box for you as they carry your gil when they have sold something and carry items which they have obtained when a player has sold something to them. It would be nice though to see this delivery system include ordinary deliveries from other players without actually having to trade anything.
This would then make the retainer a fully functional delivery system.

[Mack]

The AH and MW systems are basically one in the same now, the MW system is only lacking 2 aspects that a general AH system has, bidding and buying from search and a delivery system.

In this case you're still saying the AH is more convenient. For me, it has nothing to do with convenience or that I hate the MW so much I wanna see it gone, and it has more to do with why? They're basically overhauling the game so why not the MW, its not like an AH is gonna take the longest to setup and you all know that people will always complain about no AH - there's new topics everywhere popping up on this subject, "Is there an AH yet?" for some people it matters, so since the MW is "exactly" like an AH but less convenient, why not make it an AH? I just wanna know why they're holding on so dearly.

[Abriael]

They're basically overhauling the game so why not the MW

Because "overhauling the game" takes a lot of resources, and it's silly to use even more resources to create a whole new system in place of one that works well just because some people are so morbidly attached to a system present in other games that they cannot even fathom the viability of an altrnative?

[Mack]

Because "overhauling the game" takes a lot of resources, and it's silly to use even more resources to create a whole new system in place of one that works well just because some people are so morbidly attached to a system present in other games that they cannot even fathom the viability of an altrnative?

How is it any different than what they're doing now? the reason I started this topic is because they're constantly working on improving the MW, meaning they already have resources associated with it - it doesn't take a 100 people to code an AH.

[Abriael]

How is it any different than what they're doing now? the reason I started this topic is because they're constantly working on improving the MW, meaning they already have resources associated with it - it doesn't take a 100 people to code an AH.

First of all, you don't know what kind of resources are needed to code and test an AH. Secondly, it's normally much easier,less resources-intensive, not to mention smarter to improve over pre-existing systems that work well, instead of scrapping them and just creating new ones from scratch.

It's an elementary notion, really.

[Dreamer]

Because "overhauling the game" takes a lot of resources, and it's silly to use even more resources to create a whole new system in place of one that works well just because some people are so morbidly attached to a system present in other games that they cannot even fathom the viability of an altrnative?

Bolded is what I feel is the real issue with a large portion of the people clamoring for an AH.

[Arcell]

Because it works. At launch it was pretty awful but now that it works as intended there's no need for an AH. Let the game differentiate itself from XI in just one more way.