It's likely that the establishment of an AH or any major changes to the market ward system will occur only after the server fixes. We don't yet know when the server fixes will be, so we don't know when changes to the system of buying and selling will happen.

The AH was never "taken off" the development list. Only the time frame of the list was changed. The first development list we got had no time frame: it was a simple "to do" list. But late in the spring Yoshida altered the list to reflect only tasks that would release or hit development milestones over the summer. Very long-term tasks were omitted. That includes the zone redesign, which they are obviously working on, but which won't be releasing anytime soon.

Yoshida has already given us a preliminary list of major content expected for 1.20 and 1.21. It's likely that he's going to keep this list relatively short-term. If he doesn't, then we all get overanxious and start complaining. But the fact that changes to the system of buying and selling aren't in our current list doesn't mean they're not happening. It just means they probably won't happen THIS YEAR.

Keep in mind, I'm not arguing that we're definitely getting an AH or anything. But any changes that are likely to put stress on the servers probably aren't going to happen until the server fixes. When we finally approach that point, I think we'll see a lot of items (such as a delivery system) on the to do list.