Player Poll: What Specifically is it you want from an "Auction House"

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Personally I would like it to be an Auction House not a buy it now for set price only with no bid history. Should be similar to what you see in World of Warcraft with some tweaks for economic balance. I would like to be able to put a minimum bid price and a buyout price on the item if I want. So I can at least get the minimum amount I want to sell the item for if someone bids on it or get the full price if someone wants the item right then and there. Pricing history shouldn't be here because that is what allows RMT to take control of the market by changing the prices for everyone to see and some people step into the trap, generally fansites will have an estimate buy out price average for all servers combined (or you could use the Lodestone),and this would work for SE and the fansites for SE went around to all the big named fansites and did a face to face interview with them and approved their support.

What I really do not want to see is what they had in FFXI and they called that a Auction House. Nothing about that was an Auction House except for the fact that you went to a "Auction Counter" of sorts and could see all the items that other players were selling easily.

[zaviermhigo]

If an AH has to have an "auction" aspect to it, then I hope they create something like an AH but don't call it an AH, because I hate the auction stuff. I don't think its been done in any game well, and its been a large time sink. I would like XI type auction house with the transparency of the current price list of the MW, but the ability to put lots of items in it. Currently you can hold more item in the MW than in most AH systems, so they need to beef up the amount of items we can sell at once. Plus I'd like to see a mailbox delivery system with this so you can receive the gil for it, maybe even a house would be nice.

[Molly_Millions]

I would like to see the devs waste no time on an action house because the wards work just fine.

[Cutriss]

The retainers can replace AFK bazaars without having the functionality of *being* the AH. Put more agressive taxes on the AH, remove the taxes on the bazaars. Leave the bazaars as city-dependent, but have a global AH that they can all interact with.

In addition to seeking repairs in a proper fashion, I could see the retainers monitoring the AH for you with a cachet of money and automatically making up to, say, 5 purchases if they become available at the requested price.

Building off this idea I had, if the retainers could make purchases for you, then you wouldn't really need an AH and you could just have them troll the markets while you're out saving the world, and whenever someone puts up a matching item in your price range, your retainer snaps it up for you and notifies you via linkpearl that he saw something you were after and picked it up. Of course, being that he's a paid employee, he takes a small cut (tax).

Similarly, the retainers should notify you of any transactions via linkpearl, whether it's items repaired or sold, and if you don't want one or all of those messages, you can tell that retainer not to bother you with it (so that you could have one retainer that sells pointless crap and a separate retainer that sells high value stuff, and only have that retainer notify you when he's sold something).

Fix the search categories, add in filters, pricing history, linked markets between the city-states, speed the damn thing up, and make it delivered via post (hint hint), and add in the proxy-buyer stuff, and yeah, I don't need an AH at all. I'd still enjoy having one that would operate as a *real* auction house in that regard, with timed bids etc, but the primary market functionality would *finally* be satisfied.

I would like to see the devs waste no time on an action house because the wards work just fine.

Repeating this over and over doesn't make it true.

[Chinook]

I don't really want an Auction House, I just don't want to:

1. Go to my retainer to note the items I wish to sell on a piece of paper
2. Check on web which wards are related to my items (sometimes it doesn't make sense, ex: tattered robe and vintage robe are not in the same ward)
3. Go to Item Search function and check selling prices
4. Go back to retainer, and put things for sale

I would also like to see HQ materials ...

EDIT: I also like the fact that there's no price history, but I would really like to have a feature to see actual selling prices and quantity on sale of an item directly from retainer. Waste of time is waste of time.

[ShinChuck]

05-25-2011 06:54 AM
Without Timed or Blind Bidding it is NOT an auction house and it doesn't need to be called such, Just implement the features of an auction house (minus the timed and blind bidding) to the market wards. This can be easily done. Those of us who do not want Auction Houses do not want Timed or Blind Bidding. We do want a Convenient market system though.

Today 09:28 AM
Its not One Sided.

One Option contains all the features of an Auction House that are not reserved specifically or do not require an actual auction house. The other option are the two options that are actually auctions and require one. I wanted to prove a point that what most people are asking for is not actually an auction house. But what most people are resisting is an actual auction house.

The two sides of one Argument are not arguing against each other but think they are because of the terminology used.

You have seen the light, my son! It's truly flattering.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post151162

Well, to an extent. The anti-AH, pro-Ward people need to realize this just as much as the "pro-AH" people do. But you're getting there.

[Cairdeas]

You have seen the light, my son! It's truly flattering.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post151162

Well, to an extent. The anti-AH, pro-Ward people need to realize this just as much as the "pro-AH" people do. But you're getting there.

I've been saying this for months :P A lot of it before the official forums ever started but once they were opened I did try.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-is-Important

[ShinChuck]

I've been saying this for months :P A lot of it before the official forums ever started but once they were opened I did try.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-is-Important

Then why do you keep seeming to go back and forth on the issue? In the previous topic I linked to, you initially talked as if people asking for an AH wanted bidding or die.

[Cairdeas]

Then why do you keep seeming to go back and forth on the issue? In the previous topic I linked to, you initially talked as if people asking for an AH wanted bidding or die.

show me? Because I don't think I've ever said that.

[Felis]

You guys know we can have both? A buy now market for regular items and a bidding auction house for rare items?