[dev1251] Penalty for using market search feature

[Kio]

I'm incredibly dismayed why the players are being penalized a 5% surcharge in order to actually use this new feature. I was under the impression the entire point was to alleviate the inconvenience of zoning into the wards and playing hide and seek with your seller's npc. Replacing it with a different inconvenience purposefully so is not an improvement.

I'm assuming it's offsetting the seller's tax unto the buyer instead, but will the seller also still be charged their tax in the transaction? The original announcement doesn't cover that.

I know it's not a lot of Gil, and a few players may not emphasize with my disappointment, but it's more of a principle matter. In order to be frugal or if you are starting anew and don't have much funds to spend, that you have to still use the old method which really this implementation should have completely done away with.

I'm also losing faith in the game due to the complete stubborness not to just implement a true functioning auction house. We kept being promised that if the players requested it enough that it shall be, yet a year later after numerous pleas it's still not being done. Just the lipstick on the pig tweaks to the existing wards and trying to call it one.

Sorry for the rant, I usually don't especially on such petty things.

[Firon]

Your paying for the retainer to bring it to you <.<

[KiriA500]

You can just save the 5% by running to the vendor.

There is absolutely no reason why this is a bad thing.

[Holy_Dragoon]

This is a fantastic idea for a gil sink. Good design choice here.

[Betelgeuzah]

It's a "true" AH with a gilsink that can be avoided.

[AdvancedWind]

Agreed with the above posters, it's a nice gil sink and a trade off for the convenience of not having to zone into the wards.

[grandm]

the game needs gil sinks. but i do understand. gil sinks are best when they don't affect me :P

[Masamune1004]

It was a sneaky trick, well done SE .

[Avraym]

I'm just dissapointed in this :

1.Viewing Details of Searched Items
Verifying item quality (whether HQ or NQ) and details regarding materia-crafted items through the Item Search is not currently possible, but we plan to alleviate this some time after patch 1.20b.

With higher quality matts giving significant chances for high quality gear in 1.20, a item quality search has never been more in need.

This "new" market ward feature seems more like a poorly applied band-aid.

[NoctisUmbra]

If you're too lazy to zone in, then you shouldn't have an issue with paying a measly 5% surcharge for your convenience.

If you're too cheap to pay 5% extra, then you deserve the run around.

This game needs gil sinks, and this is a clever one. Makes it so the fact that there are retainers actually in wards mean something when people can buy from a menu.