Is Selling using Retainer an Outdated System?

[Shougun]

My counter question is- to the future of markets, can I just get a robot run market? lol. I liked the gold concept in Diablo 3 where it ran the whole gold market for everyone. Like gems, which it did too. No listing prices, no waiting, no whatever. Just buy and sell to the NPC who takes the cut they need, well in this case it was real money so Blizzard was kind of... scrooge mcduck'ing it and so I won't say that part is 'nice' (please no real money AH for an FF MMO, leave that to some other crazy game), but in terms of a in game currency it's good (gil sink = good).

As Gothic points out for wow, but is also true for FFXIV- just not as easily accessible, are bots that manipulate and run the markets (as well as the occasional person who has exceptional amounts of time on their hands lol). There are some nice to have limits with retainers, well and I'm sure SE loves the extra money for people who want to sell more... Although I think we could see a listing price slow the bots down, slightly.

There is still toying around to be done via a robot but just far more set it and forget it. You don't really need listings anymore, no more buying a stack of 50 because that was the only one for sell and you only needed 15. There may need to be a starting action, perhaps an auction I suppose, and there probably needs to be some activity for confidence, so data center wide servers at least, but seeing as they tend to work 'fine' in single player games, at least those that put a lot of effort into them, that something as important as the economy could theoretically have a robot run the show.

well taking the troll bait here, and replying.

Is it though? I like the reasons you gave, but I don't get that vibe from OP.

Why is this an automatic troll thread? Poor Highlanders are now getting stereotyped.

SE has this fascination with menus, seems they can never have quite enough. The retainer system is just another victim of exteme-menuing which makes it insanely clunky and annoying to work with.

Other games make it as simple as "right-click, sell at AH, and BAM! DONE!". SE is like, nahhh, that's far too dull. "Right-click bell, choose retainer, click through pointless greeting from retainer, click on 'sell items', BAM DONE!". Have fun if you have to switch to another retainer to sell more items.

The system is pretty awful.

I was thinking it wasn't so bad until you reminded me of all the menus you have to go through lol. WoW gets a lot of help with some amazing mods that make the process really easy, but yeah lots of windows and clicks in FFXIV's.... XD.

Might be because I garden and chocobo feed at the same time I market but makes me think of those too where I'm thinking they could have 20-50% less menus and clicks at least lol.