Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
There is only going to be one way to solve this issue. Give the players an AH and charge them an massive Jeuno Style Tax and send their stuff to their retainer for pick up. Then remove all the taxes from the market wards so people dont bazzar outside town.
Why?! I ask you, why, in 2011, do you want everything to be so needlessly annoying and inconvenient?

I want an AH. I want to open it from a convenient location. I want to access the right category easily. I want to select from a list that contains ALL the damn items of that type. I want to select an item and see previous prices. I want to have bids and buy-outs. I want the item to come straight to me or at LEAST to a delivery system that doesn't require me to go to the stupid wards.

Why should half the time I spend playing the game be used up battling the inconveniences of the system in place? I should be able to log in, meet my friends, battle some monsters or craft or whatever, and log out feeling I've achieved something and not that I've just micromanaged the shit out of an ultimately pointless and unenjoyable task.

AH's are a MMO standard because they work well, and because finding an item should be a minor afterthought at best.

Edit: Also, screw the idea that the market wards are good because they're unique. They're unique because they're bad, and no other self-respecting company would attempt to implement something so ultimately crap.

Also, the market ward rooms themselves are awful.