Auction House vs Wards

[Alhanelem]

Some points from earlier:

How about a way to know when items have sold? - They plan on adding this.
How about a Salon to change character hairstyles? - What does this have to do with the market wards?
How about making in-game items linkable so ppl know wtf the item is? [item] drops omg whats the stats??? nbdy knows.. - They plan to do this.
How about making achievements linkable so ppl can show off their achievements? - Goes hand in hand with the above, most likely, but this has nothing to do with the market wards.
How about adding more weapon variety? - This has nothing to do with the market wards.
How about a "bid" feature? - No. Do not want. I would rather buy items and recieve them immediately. I don't want to wait hours for an auction to end.

How about. Who cares? once Uldah isn't the main meeting place when Ishgard is released.

Ishgard isn't coming out anytime soon. While players assumed that Ishgard was going to be the Jeuno of this game, at this point that is extremely unlikely to have been their intention.

[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.

[leomax]

Wait, I thought we was getting an auction house? Retainers need to die asap.

[Inaaca]

Wait, I thought we was getting an auction house? Retainers need to die asap.

Retainers will do more than just hold and sell things in 2.0. As far as what those will be has yet to be seen.

[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.

[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