Auction House vs Wards

[Empyrean]

Devs, leave the market wards in place for melded things. Let the wards become the place to get that double melded electrum scepter or whatnot, and have an auction house for basic sales.

[Neekzz]

Why ask us search 3X? No one does it, they just use the wards everyone else is using. I like the markets they just need to be much larger and merged together. Everyone knows If you don't get a spot in good market you don't sell anything. If there no room now, what will it be like with all the people that 2.0 aims to bring. It also needs a filter to turn off unmelded gear while searching! I guess we will have to see what they have planed before I say anymore.

[Rizon]

Who says they cannot link the wards like they finally did with FFXI? Keep the Wards and the retainers. When you search for an item the system brings up the results from all 3 wards. This way people will not crowd into 1 city i.e. Ul"dah and we can keep our retainers for storage purposes.

[Inaaca]

Yoshi has said in the past that the wards will be linked in 2.0. There won't be a need to crowd in Uldah to sell anymore.

[SevenNajelith]

I sell a lot of stuff on an often basis. My issue with the market wards is it's usability. Having to walk back and forth from retainer to wards menu requires much more effort than it should. I shouldn't have to grab a piece of paper and pen to constantly write prices then move my retainer to set those prices over and over to stay competitive with selling my items. It really is a hassle and frustrating when I think of how easy it would be in an AH to look at price then immediately put my item up for sell instead of having to do unnecessary time consuming things several times a day just to sell items. Seems to take me at least triple the time just to put things up for sale in MW than it would have to do the same in a traditional AH.

[Seif]

I can not believe they would be that dumb to keep the wards after every single gaming site on the planet told them it's a horrible system.

Sure they fixed into the direction of an AH but it's nowhere near the AH quality of other MMO's yet.

Seriously stop wasting time on this BS already it has been polled and discussed to death with always the majority wanting an AH every single time.

There simply is no need to discuss this any further in any shape or form. EXCEPT if they are not listening or somehow have missed thousands of replies and game reviews that have been on the internet and are dead set on working on that atrocity?! What the hell?

Can you please use the time more productively and fix the storytelling and add story to quests with better rewards instead?

We should be over this issue 12 months ago.

[Angelas]

I dont care about having market wards, what I would like is a centralized search system like they mentioned.. if that happens you can place your retainer in any city and it wont matter

[rubina]

Whatever the final system that comes in play, I just wish it makes it easier to find HQ items and to discourage players who post items for max Gil.

[Yellow]

Please no more wards.. just use an auction house.


I refuse to use the system we have now. It's actually that bad, I haven't sold anything to a player ever, because the amount of menus you have to go through makes me want to throw myself out a window.

Creative ideas are nice, but the current system of wards are not working.

Creativity is nice when it works.

[Elexia]

Please no more wards.. just use an auction house.

They're the same system. Unless you can explain to me why an Auction House would be better WITHOUT stating:

1. A search feature (Market Wards does this.)
2. Listing who's selling (Market Wards does this, only it's the retainers.)
3. Price history. (Market Wards does this.)
4. How many up (Market Wards does this.)
5. Buying from search (Market Wards does this.)

So feel free to explain why an Auction House system would be superior to this, as we already know they're making adjustments to it for 2.0 to separate the HQ/Meld listings from NQ listings. Also don't even lie and say people want to "bid" because when people say Auction House we're not talking FFIX style bidding, we're talking opening an interface and buying flatout, this is what the majority of people are referring to, which the market wards does.

Oh you know what else they do most AH's doesn't? Buy items for you.