request : player stalls

[Enkidoh]

FF14 1.X also used the bazaar system if I recall, but there was no auction house/market board. They took it out in ARR in favor of the Market Board.

FFXIV 1.0 had the Market Ward, an instanced area in each city where retainers actually physically spent their time. Originally this was the only way to actually buy anything from them, you had to enter the Market Ward and phyiscally walk up to a retainer there and speak with them as if you were accessing a NPC vendor. And as a part of that, there were empty stall fronts you could also rent and stick your retainer in to "make them more visible" to other players, which is similar to what the OP wants. Unfortunately this, like a lot of of what 1.0 did, did not work as well as they had planned - it was time consuming and annoying to have to look through every retainer there to find anything, and the laggy nature of 1.0 meant things often hung while the client and server talked to each other.

After Yoshi took over as producer and director, one of the many changes he implemented to 1.0 was a search function was added to the Market Ward that greatly improved it (and thus you no longer had to speak to each retainer individually), and it is this search function that ultimately became the Market Board in ARR, the physical Ward being abolished and rolled into the search function (and hence that meant you could no longer hire market stalls). Lore wise the Market Wards still exist, but only as a hypothetical place retainers only can access (this is what the game means when you hire a retainer that you "send the retainer to the Markets"), the Market Board is basically a streamlined shopfront for accessing the wares of all retainers in the one place.

The whole Market Ward system in 1.0 was a good idea on paper, but one that did not work well in practice, and hence I do not see SE bringing it back.