Is Selling using Retainer an Outdated System?

[Hycinthus]

Retainers exist so SE can monetize storage and auction house sale slots. There's probably enough people paying for the maximum number of retainers and the crummy app that it won't change no matter what we do.

I agree with monetization and limitation, it makes sense and I’m also not asking for us to be able to list 1000 items on marketboard.

However, it doesn’t need to be through retainers right? Let us purchase/unlock additional slots to list items directly on marketboard. Bypass the retainer menu altogether.

What I don’t like this:
1) retainer causes more menus and it slows down the process. There’s even a short loading time.
2) totally unintuitive for new joiners
3) when i want to list/delist, it’s more slogging through menus.

Like i said, if i forgot 1 item, i had to run back quickly and slog through retainers again and everything gets delisted because you pulled that retainer away. While that time could have been used for the items to remain on the board, and might potentially miss buyers during those precious seconds.

You may say, oh its just 2 seconds. But All i’m saying is, is there a purpose or not? If not, to me this seems good for streamlining.

[Fawkes]

Like i said, if i forgot 1 item, i had to run back quickly and slog through retainers again and everything gets delisted because you pulled that retainer away. While that time could have been used for the items to remain on the board, and might potentially miss buyers during those precious seconds.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Retainers are suspect... three of my girls went out and all brought back fish on the same trip for 2 ventures each... They are working with one another and conspiring against you. Don't trust them.

[Canadane]

Let’s just grind back the retainer wards so they can look pretty.

[Ayuhra]

It's definitely clunky but on the other hand if I put items up for sale and vanish for a year the items return to the retainer unlike in WoW where the items just disappear.

[Kes13a]

I am generally against anything that would make it even easier for the mp bots to sell things

clunky, in a way yes

but 100 easier to tell when the bots are price changing and easier to time their cycle so maybe can get something up to sell in that brief window of opportunity

[Melichoir]

Retainers are fine.

They give you a sub system to use gear and time to acquire extra goods without spending your own time directly to get them. For example, I need 'x' materials for crafting. I can send retainers to get that for me while I do other things.

Furthermore, I actually prefer the retainer system for the MB because it adds a level of separation from my toon and selling items.

[Barraind]

It was a decade outdated when it was first implemented.

I'll still take GW2's Trading Post / Auction House / Bazaar / ect as the gold standard. Everythings transparent, you can buy, sell, make buy orders, make sell orders, and buy/sell exactly the number of things you want to buy/sell (limited to stacking quantities for selling) in one click. Hard to improve on that.