Setting up an auction house is easy. All you need is Microsoft Excel - oh, and a personal zoo full of trained monkeys to spend the next month - err "weeks" - removing every single bit of code that does so much as 'look' at a retainer, then afterwards simply installing the Auction House into the code............. after an entirely new mailbox system is spontaneously shat out of a chocobo's arse to unload the millions of ore stacks currently sitting on retainers at current. Auction house is easymode, guise.

(On Topic - I'm glad they are hiring several more people to improve/manage the planning of future projects and ensure better quality for current content, as well as the addition of several programmers to implement these broadened endeavors.)