I miss bazaars from XI

[iWaRTuRTLeS]

I miss having bazaars and a little comment section under player profile like in XI. Why wasnt the bazaar ever implemented in this game? Used to love shopping on jueno block for things.

[Catwho]

I miss having bazaars and a little comment section under player profile like in XI. Why wasnt the bazaar ever implemented in this game? Used to love shopping on jueno block for things.

So they did, originally, recreate bazaars in a roundabout way. In 1.0, retainers were available to station permanently in the Market Wards. Great in concept, right? Except there was not enough room in the hallway to load all the character models, and you had to click each character to see what they had, because there was no actual market board.

Part of the patches to 1.x that Yoshi P implemented included a proper search function in the market wards, but a hundred zombies afk and flickering as they loaded on and off is a lot less appealing than the Jeuno markets were.

By 2.0 the market ward concept was scrapped, and retainers became invisible. They added back the ability to display retainers outside of houses, with the ability to browse things for sale, back when housing was added.

[Genz]

So they did, originally, recreate bazaars in a roundabout way. In 1.0, retainers were available to station permanently in the Market Wards. [...]

Yes but no, FFXIV 1.0 also had player bazaar, so it just looks like yet another generic automatic answer about how 1.0 was bad, even if it's out of subject.

So, to get back on topic : what's the point of player bazaar.
In FFXI, a lot of strong equipments could be traded, no "bind on equip", high value items kept their high value for years, and there was a high tax for putting an item on AH. Selling and buying was thus much more important and an actual part of the game.
Also it wasn't possible to just teleport anywhere anytime, so selling the right items at the right place was also an important aspect.

Player bazaar in FFXIV would be pointless because the AH tax is negligible, the actual use value of items in FFXIV is very low, and the AH is always one teleport away. Trading is very superficial and is in the game "just because".

[AnimaAnimus]

Oh for the love of all that's good, no. It's great from a nostalgia sort of sense, but spending an hour going through over a hundred bazaars looking for the 1 item you want at a price that was fair, or worse, shopping around for the best price, was horrific.

They had it in 1.0 and scrapped it for the market board system which is better in every way. Sure it could use some changes, but personal bazaars are one thing that should be listed under "good bye and good riddance"

[jazo]

FFXI veteran here, I do miss some stuff from XI too, sneaking due some monsters aggro by sound/sight/smell etc, having to actually walk to get places, music, summoner with full model avatars, hard to acomplish level breaks due Maat fights... but BAZZARDS???! NO please no.

Want this game to go back to RO era?

[Cincierta]

FFXI veteran here, I do miss some stuff from XI too, sneaking due some monsters aggro by sound/sight/smell etc, having to actually walk to get places, music, summoner with full model avatars, hard to acomplish level breaks due Maat fights... but BAZZARDS???! NO please no.

Want this game to go back to RO era?

I remember one time a whole group of merchants in Prontera had lined themselves up to where they had the whole American Pie song properly written out. It was great. The load lag, however, was not.

[Videra]

FFXI veteran here, I do miss some stuff from XI too, sneaking due some monsters aggro by sound/sight/smell etc

This actually still exists. It's wholly unnecessary, but I enjoy doing it from time to time.

[Jkap_Goat]

I enjoyed ffxi, I've been paying it since last year but omg is it a better game, the sense of danger around every corner, jobs really stood from each other, the story....I wish for ffxi remastered

[Machi_Machiavelli]

I enjoyed ffxi, I've been paying it since last year but omg is it a better game, the sense of danger around every corner, jobs really stood from each other, the story....I wish for ffxi remastered

I wholeheartedly agree. That is one game that left you with a sense of accomplishment completing even the most simple of task. Like making it to Selbina at night in the dunes.


alas, there are somethings we'll never see in XIV. Like Bazaars, actual summons, a bluemage that isn't limited, refresh, gear swaps mid combat, leveling down (could you imagine trials and raids lol), reraise just to name a few.

[Gurney]

I wholeheartedly agree. That is one game that left you with a sense of accomplishment completing even the most simple of task. Like making it to Selbina at night in the dunes.


alas, there are somethings we'll never see in XIV. Like Bazaars, actual summons, a bluemage that isn't limited, refresh, gear swaps mid combat, leveling down (could you imagine trials and raids lol), reraise just to name a few.

Elemental resistance is the one thing I miss. I would love to see a BLM hit Ifirt with Flare and see the rage from the pt go through the roof.