Overhauling the Auction House system

[abzoluut]

GW2's fee system works pretty good. You might want to add that their AH is cross-server (every single server sees the same items/prices). That's kind of a huge difference compared to FFXIV's server AH.

[Dhex]

I want my Bazaar back and I ought to be able to sell directly from the Market board. Run to a Bell > Summon a Retainer > Select sell from Inventory - why you no make this more simple? Also an iOS/Android app to alert you when things are sold and allow you to view your wares that are up for sale and re price or remove them via the app.

[Emorelle]

I love the market system in this game. People undercut me all the time but with patience my items always sell after those are all gone.

[Eye_Gore]

I've made almost 1 million gil in about 3 weeks time playing roughly 10 hours a week, probably less. With nothing but non-unique items, I think the way it works is just fine. Just have to know how to play the board. Why does everyone call it an auction house, isn't it the Market Board? Don't really see much bidding going on.

[DefendPopPunk]

More than anything, I'd like them to just remove your name from the items you sell. Recently, I had someone send me threatening tells over an item I was selling, which is a bit much if you ask me.

[Malzian]

There are also bots that scan the prices on the auction house 24/7 to ensure that their item stays as the lowest price that's currently available by undercutting the lowest prices with 1 gil or 1000 gil.

I actually have taken advantage of these from time to time... Noticed one undercutting me by 100 about every 5 minutes after I lowered mine. Finally I lowered it to 1 Gil above vendor, waited and saw they lowered it to 99 below vendor (^.^), bought their item and sold it myself at a profit... Bots are dumb that way...

[Fizzy]

There's nothing wrong with the MB, it's fine the way it is if you know how to use it properly. The only problem I see is in between patches when many people take a vacation from playing until the next update and there is a flood of crafters still trying to make money when there are no buyers. It's basic supply and demand. When there are too many crafters crafting the same items and there are no buyers then, yes, there will be a lot of undercutting to get the next sale. This was a huge problem before patch 2.2 but there also wasn't a large variety of items like there is now. Still though, if you want to make money you have to be flexible on the items you sell. In slow times like now, basic crafting mats still will sell. You just need to keep an eye on the market and see whats working on what is not. Once 2.4 hits things will certainly pick up again.

[Barboron]

Don't come and shout at other tables if you really have nothing to say

I do have something to say and it is that if you want to play using FFXI features, go play FFXI. Take this game for what it is right now, there's a long way to go so it may, or may not, change in the future.

[Celaine]

There is an inherent flaw at the outset of that wall of text... which I did not read as whatever that longwinded argument entailed, was based on the glaring flaw.

It is not an auction house.

Market? Yes. Potentially flawed for reasons of I wouldn't expect people to buy an entire stand of apples? Also yes. Not an auction house (praise the Mother Crystal); it's a market. It's the system we have. Stop begging/whining/griping/tl;dr begging for an auction house like other games have.

[Melondra]

As the economy stands now,farming is worthless,crafting is worthless, and the games economic is bankrupt. The only thing of value right now is Matera. Cant have just one item type that has a high value while everything else is worthless this will destroy the economy wich is what we are seeing now. Implementing this idea would solve a lot of problems and allow the economy to stabilize and grow and everyone would win Except the gill sellers. Right now gill-sellers are loving what's going on right now because it is very easy to control the market by undercutting items and jacking up prices so that they can monopolise the AH 24/7, the economy will never recover at this rate. Players are going to get fed up with it eventually and mass subscriptions will be loss.