Wow, no mention of Auction house / MW improvements

[TheVedis]

Not everyone cares about those things. I dont even play ANY combat classes in FFXIV anymore. I know several people who enjoy playing the economy in multiple MMOs.

lol and you call us the minority

[Eekiki]

You shouldnt. You clearly are one of the extreme minority of the population that purchased the game that are happy with it. I am talking about NEW customers the ones that have yet to pay out their hard earned money for the game. Those people may do some research on the game before they purchase it. I was wondering if any of these potential customers will have anything besides extremely negative media to read.

Except thinking as an average gamer, I'm not going to look at idiotblogger196's livejournal for a video game review. I'm going to look at metacritic, gamespot, or giantbomb, and none of those sites have any news on the game except what they belched out a year ago.

And they won't have anything new until after the PS3 release.

[Belial]

This thread keeps on bringing the lulz.

[Molly_Millions]

That 30 seconds it takes to walk to the retainer to pick up an item must be VERY important to you all.

[TheVedis]

That 30 seconds it takes to walk to the retainer to pick up an item must be VERY important to you all.

you mean that 30 seconds it woulda taken them to walk to the mailbox to get their item in any other game?

[Molly_Millions]

you mean that 30 seconds it woulda taken them to walk to the mailbox to get their item in any other game?

yes, those 30 seconds

just imagine all that could be done. oh wait...

[odintius]

Threat like this amount to nothing but getting some good laugh's on the amount of bigotry. If SE decides it or not it there decision not to a hand full of poster's on these forums.

[Dreamer]

market wards are not innovation, innovation means you make something better.

No, no it doesn't.

in·no·va·tionNoun/ˌinəˈvāSHən/
1. The action or process of innovating.
2. A new method, idea, product, etc: "technological innovations".

WoW's expansions introduced innovation after innovation. Many of us didn't like them at all - they certainly weren't for the better.

I personally like the idea behind market wards. The MW + Retainer system has a lot more potential than traditional auction houses. It's much closer to being able to make your character a merchant of sorts than the models we're used to. If your character focuses on crafting or gathering, market wards offer more possibilities.

Unfortunately the market wards still need quit a bit of work.

Why is my retainer only able to buy items for me that are already in my inventory?
Why does the search menu not show which items items currently being bought by retainers?
Why do the market wards only allow you make repair requests, and not repair offers?
Why are they still allowing the market ward floors to be covered in a sea of retainers, instead of expanding the stall system and making it a requirement?

All of those except the first are things that are much easier to implement in the current system than in an auction house, and things the developers need to think about if they want the market ward's strengths to shine instead of feeling like a second rate AH.

[grandm]

That 30 seconds it takes to walk to the retainer to pick up an item must be VERY important to you all.

i'm going to take 10 mins out of my life and walk to the shop. think i can justify it i really want a drink, and don't want to wait for postman deliver from ebay

[TonyMontana]

you mean that 30 seconds it woulda taken them to walk to the mailbox to get their item in any other game?

Clearly you havent played the most popular MMO in the world in the past 5 years because the mailbox is within aoe range of where you interact with the auction house. Oh and there is no zoning involved either.