Auction House vs Wards

[Seif]

So what are the retainers good for anymore if the selling horror gets fixed to be in the same handy menu and buying?
I literally don't see any reason for them to exist.

[Titans]

So what are the retainers good for anymore if the selling horror gets fixed to be in the same handy menu and buying?
I literally don't see any reason for them to exist.

But what's your argument? I believe that SE should have the search function in the retainer's menu, hence improving time for those gamers who feels that the retainers waste their time. Which would eliminate the back and forth. You should ask your retainer for prices, item search, NQ, HQ.

[Darkillumina]

I'm not going to lie the MW system grew on me. It's quite quaint actually. I do think the search options and the overall user experience need to be expanded on but I have no issue with the MW system being continued in 2.0.

It would be great if you could access your retainer from your moghouse and give him/her things to sell from there.

[indira]

only thing the need with retainers better catagory sorting and add find HQ's.

there both the same thing but a AH has a time limit you can sell for and it cost each time you put up for auction who know if there gonna tax it. all MMO's have crappy economy's this wont be any different because people are greedy plain and simple.

[Jaimie]

Can someone on Balmung get rid of their retainer in Uldah, so I can put mine there. Please.

OMFG this MW system is RETARDED, and anyone who likes it, even just a little bit, is a __________

[Seif]

Can someone on Balmung get rid of their retainer in Uldah, so I can put mine there. Please.

OMFG this MW system is RETARDED, and anyone who likes it, even just a little bit, is a __________

I cannot think of one single thing I like about the retainers. Especially now that they're useless but still their existence alone is preventing the game to have a proper selling and item storage system.

[Alhanelem]

Can someone on Balmung get rid of their retainer in Uldah, so I can put mine there. Please.

OMFG this MW system is RETARDED, and anyone who likes it, even just a little bit, is a __________

Do you like and hate everything else with just as little reason as this?

Hm. What do Auction Houses have that Market Wards don't?

Accessibility and ease of use.

You'll find if you read all my other supporting posts, that i fully agree with this statement, and that this is what needs to be addressed. Buying items is easy. MWs have some unique secondary features that AHes don't. However the process of putting items up for sale requires you to go through like a dozen different menus and UIs and even some walking around if you don't know the going rate for an item.

A potentially easy way to at least cut down on that would be to call up the price history of an item whenever you are setting a price. That shouldn't be hard to do and would save a crap ton of effort.

Next, eliminating the separate screens for item exchange and price listing. I don't see any reason why you can't do all this stuff from the same interface.

Those are two things that would help immensely without even requiring a major resturcture.

Beyond that, a lot of the things people complain about, like sluggish retainer UI integrating each city's market into one, are already in the works.

I cannot think of one single thing I like about the retainers. Especially now that they're useless but still their existence alone is preventing the game to have a proper selling and item storage system.

there's nothing wrong with the storage system, only the lack of a delivery box which is coming in 2.0. you get plenty of storage and it doesn't work any differently than in XI other than point of access. the rest of my post above was devoted to simplifying item sales. Retainers can also buy items for you which is unique to this game, and can have stuff offered for repairs for you, again unique to this game. Retainers were supposed to do a lot more than they do now, but when the game had such a broken launch, further development on them basically ground to a halt while they spent their time fixing everything else.

Of course, despite all this, people will continue to hate for illogical reasons such as "I hate it' and 'it's retarded' and 'it's not an AH" instead of real sensible reasons with a real explanation.

[Jaimie]

[QUOTE=Alhanelem;836399]Do you like and hate everything else with just as little reason as this?

If you had bothered to read all of my previous posts, you would know that I have a number of complaints with regards to the MW system.

Are the servers back up yet? I wanna get my retainer into a MW in uldah. Did I mention that the issue of all the markets wards in Uldah being full of retainers, really "upsets" me?