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

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.