Any word on when we will get an Auction House?

[Gath]

I dont think we need one, add in "History" and all is good. Some kind of global search be nice so you can view retainers from other cities.

It would be awesome to have history in place of current prices, stops the gay undercutting game. The best thign about the XI AH system is that undercutting really didn't happen. Also made it easier to control a certain items(s) on the AH.

[viion]

It would be awesome to have history in place of current prices, stops the gay undercutting game. The best thign about the XI AH system is that undercutting really didn't happen. Also made it easier to control a certain items(s) on the AH.

Yeh undercutting is a bitch, for people with not a lot of money they love it, and when you see a bargin its like wooo, but then you try to sell things to make money you're like ".... okay WTF"

[ShinChuck]

But we have a basic AH, and nobody is asking for a redundant system. Really, if the Ward Auction House was upgraded to offer the same benefits of any other AH, people would be fine with them. People asking for an AH are not asking for a literal second redundant system, they are asking for equivalent functionality, whether from a new system that replaces the Wards entirely or a WAH that is adjusted to be as smooth as any other AH.

It doesn't matter if we want or don't want an AH, we have a very simple, unintuitive one - we're just asking to improve it to meet the reasonable standards of an AH.

[Lebannen]

There is already a building in Limsa Lominsa assigned to be an auction house. It still isn't open though, but you can see from the insignia on the door that it will be an auction house. If you want to see it, it is near the docks in Limsa Lominsa. I stumbled upon it yesterday.

[TheVedis]

There is already a building in Limsa Lominsa assigned to be an auction house. It still isn't open though, but you can see from the insignia on the door that it will be an auction house. If you want to see it, it is near the docks in Limsa Lominsa. I stumbled upon it yesterday.

Thats not an AH, its the "Judge" class (sorry had to say it)

[Yumi_Hibiki]

Seriously with the current state of the market wards a auction house is not needed anymore.
In some situations it already better then one, for example you can sell hundreds of items seperately (i have like 300 pieces of cloth on my retainer for sale) which wouldnt be possible with an AH. You can also sell full stacks if thats what you want.
I dont understand all the people complaining about the SHORT walk to fetch the item, i mean comeon it doesnt even take 2 minutes, do you guys all have your fridge next to your couch that you loath walking so much?

[Abraxai]

Without reading the previous pages of this post I'll give my two pennies...

For me personally, an Auction House isn't just a simpler means of buying and selling, it's also the things that tie in and link with that sort of system, such as a delivery box system, and a storage system, ala Mog Houses.. For us to send, recieve, collect and store our items and wares. While yes, the retainer wards have seen dramatic improvements since the launch of the game, after 500 updates it will never be as efficient or as user friendly on the members or the UI as simply integrating an Auction House would be, not to mention it would also pad out a lot of that blank spacing around the City Nations that we see..

Why would people objectify the implementation of such an easy, smooth and useful system?

Albeit it not being top priority, smoothness and user friendliness of the UI and related systems are pretty high on the agenda, surely the buying/selling process falls into that category?

Edit:

Something I would also like to add is the unattractiveness of the Market Wards as current. Ward after ward of blocked up NPC's and a zone line on the outside that is crammed full of people standing blankly at the item search feature.

While yes, an Auction House imposes the same sort of limitations, (people standing at the counter), this is at least warranted as if you are transacting something between you and the Auction House itself.. Rather than staring blankly at what looks to be another pathway / alleyway leading deeper into Ul'dah itself.

[Aldwin]

I still don't see people considering what the market wards would be like if more than the mere few hundred at most people were playing on your server. If this game was poplular, which is the goal of course, how would it look zoning into the battlecraft wards with 10,000 retainers in that tiny zone, waiting for the marked retainer to actually show up on your screen, and then trying to target him among the 10,000 surrounding him. I don't believe the market system could, or was ever designed, to support a large playerbase.

Personally I want an auction house. If se wants to try something different, maybe try making an auction house that is not only linked to all cities, but across all servers as well.

[OJtheLIONKing]

I still don't see people considering what the market wards would be like if more than the mere few hundred at most people were playing on your server. If this game was poplular, which is the goal of course, how would it look zoning into the battlecraft wards with 10,000 retainers in that tiny zone, waiting for the marked retainer to actually show up on your screen, and then trying to target him among the 10,000 surrounding him. I don't believe the market system could, or was ever designed, to support a large playerbase.

Personally I want an auction house. If se wants to try something different, maybe try making an auction house that is not only linked to all cities, but across all servers as well.

Oh I like cross-server ideas like this. To balance it, it should probably have a huge fee to put anything on there. However, for someone trying to sell an item that has just no market at all on his server, or for very rare items, this could work. This would be a good way to avoid the situation you sometimes ran into in XI where an item sells briskly on one server but not have sold at all on other servers for various reasons(Corselet, I'm looking at you...)