AH info lost in the sauce?

[Winterclaw]

Thing is, if you can't buy the uberrare items, it lessens what you can do as a botter, RMT, or a chinese prisoner being forced to play the game. If Ifrit's fur thong is a highly prized item and you can't trade it, the only way you can get it is to play the game and earn it the old fashioned way. So you can't just spend $10 to buy the gil needed to get it in the MWs.

In GW, the botters and RMTers did screw up the economy by inflating prices and acquired some items that only came out for a limited time (which were lost for good after some of them were banned). So as long as it doesn't hurt the players, I'm for SE trying things to stop RMTers and botters.

[Phenidate]

Thing is, if you can't buy the uberrare items, it lessens what you can do as a botter, RMT, or a chinese prisoner being forced to play the game. If Ifrit's fur thong is a highly prized item and you can't trade it, the only way you can get it is to play the game and earn it the old fashioned way. So you can't just spend $10 to buy the gil needed to get it in the MWs.

In GW, the botters and RMTers did screw up the economy by inflating prices and acquired some items that only came out for a limited time (which were lost for good after some of them were banned). So as long as it doesn't hurt the players, I'm for SE trying things to stop RMTers and botters.

The problem with making important items impossible to craft is that we end up with a craft system like WOW. Crafting in WOW atleast makes it so it isn't a formal job requiring the entailed time investment. Unless you are a consumables crafter, most of your gear is junked the moment loot drops in a dungeon.

Considering one of the facets of the game is meant to be crafting, cheaping out on a proper system in game to move goods is a serious problem.

If players are expected to dedicate time into a craft in order to become a part of the market, there needs to be a way we can know we aren't being unfairly edged out by Chinese RMT sweatshops and bots.

[Anathiel]

........and I still want info. i really didn't want this to derail and it did lol. I was hoping for a group of people to be like: "yeah, we also want to know about any new AH info". yeah...didn't get that at all lol.

[TheVedis]

........and I still want info. i really didn't want this to derail and it did lol. I was hoping for a group of people to be like: "yeah, we also want to know about any new AH info". yeah...didn't get that at all lol.

unfortunately its imposible to talk about an AH without this kinda response

[Anathiel]

unfortunately its imposible to talk about an AH without this kinda response

that's a shame... I just wanted to know what was going on lol, instead this thread is gonna be overlooked as a "MW vs. AH". oh well...

[Delsus]

........and I still want info. i really didn't want this to derail and it did lol. I was hoping for a group of people to be like: "yeah, we also want to know about any new AH info". yeah...didn't get that at all lol.

Any mention of an AH is almost taboo on these forums, these days.

[indira]

the wards are basicly a AH and mule in one, no running back and forth like AH it saves time.

[Seif]

It's pretty clear they're trying to sweep the issue under a rug like nobody would notice. The first thing N. Yoshida did was wooing players by saying if AH is what people want we'll need to put it in. That was over 6 months ago.
They have implemented numerous things that got lower amount of votes than the AH did (over 20%) but still no AH in the game. Just a broken MW that sucks a lot of dev time because the zoning( that nobody likes) crashes the game when it can't handle drawing of 100 dead zombies. When it doesn't crash it can only draw a small fraction of the copy-pasted hi-res models that is neither fast, realistic nor fun.


AH was voted by the players in the poll! AH polls have been happening on these forums from the day the forums were launched. AH has always been voted the better option by a landslide. Always.

All MW needs is price histories and shopping via search menu to accomplish this. Why are they messing with little things like recipes when there is a massive elephant in the room preventing proper economy?

[Nicco]

honestly i wouldnt mind keeping it the same as it is now, if theyd just add hq next to the item listing. +1/2/3 etc etc.

[Krychek]

I dont mind the MW's persay vs. a AH but MW's still needs improving asap.

The two biggest things I can think of right now are figuring out how to display HQ items and being able to bring up the item search menu anywhere in the wards having to run to the walls can be annoying and shouldn't be needed.