Retainer Markets vs Auction House

[Seif]

Economically speaking the more information available the better off the average person will be and the better off the economy will be.

So if an auction house has a HISTORY, its better than the current ward system. If they create a ward system with open bidding or implement history than that could match the benefits of an AH.

The only real point to think about in this debate (mathematically proven) is that the more information consumers and producers have, the faster price equilibrium will be reached and the more efficient the market will be. This isn't a debate or a contested theory. Its the foundation of capitalism (the system used in pretty well all of the western world and this game)

That still leaves the trouble of zoning into the wards. They're going to redesign the look of the wards which I consider a lot of dev time utterly wasted. No matter how many birds and rainbows they attatch to the wards that's only going to make the load times longer. All people really want is not to zone and to know the price histories of items.

[Azurymber]

That still leaves the trouble of zoning into the wards. They're going to redesign the look of the wards which I consider a lot of dev time utterly wasted. No matter how many birds and rainbows they attatch to the wards that's only going to make the load times longer. All people really want is not to zone and to know the price histories of items.

but at the same time wards double as mog houses. if they make it so ppl can only have 1 retainer selling things per city then they would reduce lag a lot. But yeah it really depends on the programming for that part.