Quote Originally Posted by AidanSchutze View Post
Yay yet another topic complaining about over crowding. Guys there are the stands which you could use. 10 in each ward and 90% of people ignore them due to them costing 500 gil a day.
It still needs an immediate fix, regardless of whether there are reasonably accessible ways of evading the issue. What SE has done is akin to putting a cap on the number of Jeuno AH slots that will be used at any given time, server-wide. It probably (hopefully) was an unintentional side-effect and not a ridiculously misguided attempt to force us into using other markets, but in either case, it is a severe problem.

The fix probably needs to be multi-part, as well; a short-term fix to alleviate immediate congestion, and then a long-term re-thinking of the retainer system, because if this game becomes as popular as SE hopes, it will eventually fill up again, if they just increase caps (merging the markets being the same thing).

This just adds to my sense that SE rushed the server merge. This is not an eventuality that they should have been oblivious to.