Quote Originally Posted by Verecund View Post
Yeah... other stores like Borders and Barnes & Noble. Do they happen to sell newspapers? Because that would make me "lol" "irl"...

Having a 'sandbox'-type economy is a good idea on paper, but after it is implemented people will then start to gather towards a central economic hub (i.e. the zone with the best things going for it... in this case, Uld'ah). This usually happens anyway later down the road due to new content and zones. But, the problem with the Retainer system is that you can't access the game economy if people are not selling in your city, which inevitably leads to the evacuation of pretty much everything that isn't the 'Economic Hub'. Did I mention all this content just got figuratively thrown away?

Also, imagine what this would be like for new players now coming into the game... if their town (i.e. Gridania) has no one playing in it, they wouldn't have an economy to buy from, and they also might think that not so many players play the game. Etc.
Well FF11 has that problem too, but the wards presents a problem that retainers can't be in two places at once. If FF14 ever gets successful enough to have that situation, then yes. But it's a doom idea Market Wards, because if a population of 2000-3000, need 8-12 retainers to cover the zones, then you would have over tens of thousands of retainers burdening the system.

I don't even want to think about a MMO to where I have to managed my equipment and items in that mess.

Not to mention you would have retainers names called Puppiesaresupercute1123 due to the unique name problem