[dev1251] Item search like this is useless

[KiriA500]

How? Explain how is it related to stupidity in anyway.

Several items on AH:
Sword NQ 50k
Sword NQ 50k
Sword +1 100k
Sword NQ 100k
Sword +2 100k

All you see is
Sword 50k
Sword 50k
Sword 100k
Sword 100k
Sword 100k


You dont know which is scamming you without going to look. Its like playing cups that you can never win at without looking. You also don't see the nice +2 offer.

It could even be

Sword 50k
Sword 50k
Sword 101k
Sword 101k
Sword 102k

1 of them is fake...

if this Window: http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to.../b7/2064_1.jpg

Show'd HQ/NQ it wouldnt be too bad.

I'd do this thing called walking to the retainers. It's free.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Cut them some slack. They can't implement the damn system yet.
If you're opposed to using it, just keep doing it the way you were before.

Usually I rather dislike your opinions, this one however I completely approve. I actually LIKE what they have done here, and HQ viewing is still part of 1.20, so its not like we will have to wait until March or something like that.

If I were to have 1 critique, I would have put the surcharge on purchases above a certain threshold in order to help players acquiring low level gear, meanwhile taxing those who make millions of gil before the rewards were balanced. This would be a permanent way to keep those gillionaires paying back into the system.

I'm willing to guess those stating "will not pay now" were already not planning to pay, and creating excuses to justify themselves.

Remember, this is a fundamental patch fixing underlying systems. Once they are in, they can add features like HQ / Materia search without too much trouble.

[neizero]

Unless you aren't concerned with with HQ. When I am looking for grinding material, I could care less about HQ mats. I just want to get the bulk materials so I can get to grinding. Hardly useless for me. Seriously, making a mountain out of a molehill. The rest of the functions is supposed to be in before 1.21. Just wait until then to use it if it bothers you that much.

Correct. If you're looking for iron ingots to grind on, you win. I concede 5% usefulness. And bear in mind finding grind items in the past was also relatively fast since you could often find them stacked in the same retainer... so I don't think things have improved that much for you. Now try finding a specific gear+materia combo

[Sephrick]

I'd do this thing called walking to the retainers. It's free.

So in other words you agree the system is useless as is but wanted to give some people some attitude about it anyway?

[RemVye]

You kids and your silly complaints. How dare SE give us 75% of the feature this patch! Must complain about not getting the other 25%... seriously SE use that time machine wormhole device to slow down time and get more work done so we can have HQ/NQ details on the search feature.

I'd bet you all of Gaths' 1 gil that if they said "we are going to hold off releasing this until its 100% complete" you kids would b*tch and moan about that too.



Even though you said "item search like this is useless" I bet you still will use it... stupidity reigns supreme on these forums (well, all forums but yeah you)



Rems' 1 Gath is worth more than your 1 Gath.

[KiriA500]

So in other words you agree the system is useless as is but wanted to give some people some attitude about it anyway?

Yes, that's [sarcasm]EXACTLY WHAT I SAID!!! /eyeroll[/sarcasm]

I find the price history to be a nice addition, because not every item is always up to gauge off of. They added the feature to buy stuff directly for the people who don't want to walk to the retainer. It's a luxury tax.

[Asiaine]

Maybe my newbieish perspective may be helpful here ^.^;

I like the idea of being able to more easily peruse items that are available and their price. This will make things easier for me. Yes, MORE features (details, history, 3D rotation of item) would be well appreciated, and perhaps some of these may make it into the future.

But for the moment, the ability to just peruse some items is better than before.


Side note: My purse is sad about the 5% surcharge.
Side Side note: I kind of liked the auction hall in FFXI. Am I alone in that? I wonder why this 'retainer' approach was taken instead.

[Molly_Millions]

Some people will start using this trying to trick people into buying NQ from item list

Ooh, good idea! a laziness tax!

mwahahahaha!

[syntaxlies]

i dont mind listing my items 20,00` or 20,003, but when my items dont fall in the (20 cheapest) cause they are HQ no one knows the are there.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

It's also going to be a pain in the ass when the people do buy the HQ items and the sales history gets distorted because of it.

People will think a NQ item is worth as much as an HQ if someone bought a lot of HQs recently. Or conversely the price of HQ will drop because people can only see the NQ price. Market prices will get all screwed up because of this.

edit: not to mention people manipulating markets by buying things from themselves etc. but that is another topic.