Market Wards vs AH

[sasukeuchiha]

I do not see how the wards are superior. Despite what ever one saying i have yet to see one positive side at all to the system.

[Randis]

i like the market wards, i am sure they will get tweaked some more but in general i like em.
i can find what i am searching for and i can also kill time walking around looking at the goods.

What i really would like is a post office so you can send cash and items to others like in FFXI

[Taru_TwoPointO]

Lets not forget the another reason why the Market Wards were chosen by SE and not a normal Auction House..

Auction House botting. Yes, there are auction house bots. They sit in that one single place and bid items at low prices waiting to snag that one item that person wanted to sell for cheap. If it wasn't that, then they would just purchase all of a specific item and raise the price.

I haven't seen this brought up once in this entire 23 pages of discussion. I think this is really one of the main reasons SE has us running around to get our merchandise. Think about it. You cannot in no way shape or form. Code a bot to search and item in the wards, choose the ward, then go to that person with the star on there head to purchase it in its current form.

On top of that. Why do people feel the need to have price histories? That is a large contributor to creating inflation in the economy. Put that item up for what you feel its worth. Their is always checking to see if that item is being sold by someone else and adjusting the your selling price.

I'm all for implementing more features to the wards. But if they create single location where we can just stand there, browse, purchase, and receive the item, it will cause eventually cause rmt to get hold of the economy once again. As well as create huge inflations. This would cause a huge problem in a game where gil is abundant.

[CeeKay]

I learned how the Market Wards worked the last day the server was up. My fifth day playing the game.
I have to say I thought they were pretty cool and just as effective as an ah, with more life involved. Maybe there can be minor tweaks to make it up to par and better.