[Dev 1251] Additional Market Search Features

[Geesus]

I think the shopping cart idea has merit and idk if it's laziness per sae more just convenience. Instead of having to write down all your mats needed for your 'shopping list' it provides one for you.

I do see what you are saying at the same time Plague, and I think it was in jest but at least it was an idea rather than the usual QQing about how something new is broken before we even have tested it yet.

I will say this off topic though, this post was a nice change from the complaints seemingly taking over the forums so imho it's refreshing to see some adults talking instead of bickering. Thanks to you all for bringing some faith back to me in the community. (^.^)

~Gee

[normalforce]

Hmm please don't tie these ideas to useless 3d models and I like it. How about suggestions tab? We see you have 3 of the for materials to craft X or we see you're missing X gear from your armor set here's the item for sale. Click to see price histories.

This idea is pure genius! I'd take it a step further even. If your weapon, armor or tools are outdated, it would suggest possible replacements. If you are getting near a replacement (1 or 2 levels) than a suggestion should popup as well.

But the scanning your inventory and making suggestions on what you could possible make is brilliant.

[KiniRyris]

or you new gen of gamers are getting lazier and lazier...Don't even want to buy stuff one by one anymore! lol

As it had been said before, MMOs should be, in a sense, a time sink, which keeps players paying for it. Time shouldnt be wasted struggling with UI which would only frustrate players. I think new players and current players would LOVE to just select the item they wish to craft, then add everything needed into a cart with a price.

Dealing with the UI and shopping shouldn't be a large amount of time in your FFXIV play time. Playing with other players should.

[AtryxEtair]

I thought I'd give this another run through because I thought some good points were made and would like to see some more.

Sorry for a selfish *bump*

[LicontAshontear]

I'm thrilled that we are finally getting this feature. I've gone through quite a few leveled with gimped gear (i.e ARC 30-28 with pretty much the same set) because going into the wards eats up my time.

But some features I'd like to see in the future, most likely 2.0, is a shopping cart feature and a wish list.

Shopping Cart: We can choose to select everything we want to buy in one transaction. Seeing all of our items laid out in a menu before any gil is actually exchanged. This would help in buying gear sets if you only wanna spend a set amount of money. Weighing the pros and cons of how much you really wanna spend on each piece. A lot of people do this on paper before hand already.

Wish List: A set list in a window that pops up every time you enter the wards that displays any items you have flagged and their current price, average or lowest. Average for things like mats cause you'd probably want to buy them in bulk and lowest for single items. Also the amount available. I know people do this on paper and in forums as well.

Does anyone think these would be useful enough to devote time and energy to? Or do they seem too superfluous?

this will never work. here is why:

how will they control the movement of items if multiple people have the same item in their shopping cart?

answer:

they wont.
if they do decide to lock that item out after a person selects it and keep it locked until they purchase or exit, then we would have people being douchbags and locking out their competitors items out and then go afk so the only items available for purchase are their own.

[AtryxEtair]

You haven't purchased the item when it is your cart. It will still be on the market. Intelligent people wouldn't put the last of a specific item in high demand in a shopping cart and let it sit there while others could still buy it before they "check out". Works the same way for online stores.

[Lucifer]

You know what would be nice to have on the market? A little advertisement from the seller.
You could invest in to having your name appear in gold or a little slogan for the stuff you sell.
Just a thought though.

[AtryxEtair]

You know what would be nice to have on the market? A little advertisement from the seller.
You could invest in to having your name appear in gold or a little slogan for the stuff you sell.
Just a thought though.

Wasn't that the purpose of stalls?(not sayin it worked) Or do you mean specifically in the search menu?

[Lucifer]

in the search menus

[AtryxEtair]

I don't see a huge benefit to that because people will always go for the cheapest thing. It would work if we could sell things in groups. Like a full armor set and it gave a description if it had materia on it or something. Label it "Def/Hp Tanking Full Set".

If we can trade and mail multiple items at once I don't see why we shouldn't be able to buy them.