Poll: Yea This Again...

[RabidSquirrel]

YES

Because SE's only solutions to the wards' problems are to either add more wards (which will backfire eventually), and make it more like an auction house. And in MMO terms, all an "auction house" means to me is some simple to use, central spot to obtain goods being sold by other players. The wards are currently, for all intense purposes, an auction house that makes you run around. And as it becomes more similar to a typical AH, the idea of the wards becomes more pointless.

And once this AH is in place, might as well centralize it between all towns and resolve that issue before it happens. Business 101: Sell your goods where people go. And if that is one town, nearly everyone will sell their goods there and the other AHs will be left in the dust. Kinda like the wards are now.

[Cairdeas]

YES

Because SE's only solutions to the wards' problems are to either add more wards (which will backfire eventually), and make it more like an auction house. And in MMO terms, all an "auction house" means to me is some simple to use, central spot to obtain goods being sold by other players. The wards are currently, for all intense purposes, an auction house that makes you run around. And as it becomes more similar to a typical AH, the idea of the wards becomes more pointless.

And once this AH is in place, might as well centralize it between all towns and resolve that issue before it happens. Business 101: Sell your goods where people go. And if that is one town, nearly everyone will sell their goods there and the other AHs will be left in the dust. Kinda like the wards are now.

The thing that most people who do not want an auction house are fighting against are the things that legitimize the name Auction house. We do not want Timed or Blind Bidding, We don't want Price Histories. I have no problem with a centralized vending system that works like a mix of the market wards and the Final Fantasy AH Search without the bidding process.

IE.

Walk up to counter.
Search for Item.
List of Retainers selling those items and the price are listed.
Click Retainers name opens the Retainers Store. All the retainers items are shown for you, the item you had searched for is highlighted for you.
Click the item you want to buy it, check the retainers other items for possible items you might want.
Items are delivered to you, pay your Gil taxes to the stall. Walk away.

Just don't stuff the Timed and Blind Bidding in there. Without Blind Bidding you don't need a Price History, Because you can see the prices of all the items as is, if you find the cheapest you buy it, If everyones selling the same item for around 500 gil and your wanting to sell the item sell it for around 500 gil. If no one is selling the item you want to sell put it up for what you think is fair for what you had to do to produce or acquire the item. If it doesn't sell in an adequate amount of time lower the price. If it sells quickly and you can't keep stock of the item up then raise the price a little.


I don't see whats so bad about this compromise that most of us have suggested multiple times. We don't want an "Auction House" because we don't want the shitty bidding systems. We have no problems with the Convinence of a central searching location. But we'd still like to have the retainers and Window shopping/impulse buying draw that retainers offer. Hell with this system you don't need the physical wards anymore, just let the search system list all current retainers.

[Mack]

I have no problem with a centralized vending system that works like a mix of the market wards and the Final Fantasy AH Search without the bidding process.

I explained just that in the OP, I said an "AH" in the sense that we have the market wards bundled up into a counter.