Thread: Would anyone else not even blink if 2.0 launched and markets/retainers dissappeared?

Long as I got someplace to hold my stuff.

FF11's AH system is fine, even if it's sort of a reverse-auction. Sellers are competing over having the cheapest goods instead of buyers competing over giving the highest price.

I would have preferred FF11's system copypasted directly into this game instead of the retainer/ward system, as long as we got more selling slots. However, FF11s system would be completely incompatible with how items work in FF14. In FF11, every AHable item is exactly like every other AHable item of the same name, which means the server doesn't need to keep track of every individual item, but instead just store a string like "x item, y amount". In FF14 however, every weapon can have several hundred possible configurations through the use of materia.

If you wanted to put such an item in FF11's AH, the AH would have to remove all the customisation of the item, and I'm sure we can all agree that that's a pretty bad idea.

"Auction house functionality" is planned for 2.0, whatever that means specifically.

I'm not sure where people are getting this.

We already have auction house functionality. It's a bit clunky because it was all tacked on after the fact, but it's there. any future ""Auction house functionality" is most likely just the ability to browse and buy without going to a special area to do it.

The markets now have textual item search, price history, buy directly from the item search, everything any other auction house has (except that all sales are buyouts, rather than timed auctions which I honestly don't care for- I want to pay money and get my item, not wait and fight with other people over it). It also has features other AHes don't have, like the ability to put up a request to buy items and to request repairs of items you have stored.

The only problems with the market as it is now are:
1)limited capacity - I guess this is supposed to get us to disperse or something but it's not working. every section in ul'dah is full most of the time.
2)Ease of access- it's inconvenient to have to move to a special area to trade. Adding an NPC to take you there helped but it's still a bit of a pain.
3)Listing an item takes too many steps. I like the feature to request items and repairs, so I don't want retainers to go away, but I should be abel to just click a 'sell' button in the UI and have the item automatically go to the retainer bazaar for sale.

Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I'm not sure where people are getting this.

The third PDF.



TBH, it makes no difference to me whether it's an actual AH or not. All that I care about is whether I can list items quickly and easily, without 8 steps involved. Buying stuff right now is OK, except for the fact that the three cities can't be linked yet; it's mostly the selling process that's tedious.