Removal of player Bazaar

[Dannythm]

Still wards from what I understand, but we will be able to search for hq or nq items separately, and well as for melded or non-melded items, maybe some other improvements as well.

I'd love the improvement for being able to sell stuff and locate my retainer in the wards somehow.

So they giving us AH functionality, without making an AH, going by the trouble of making this all via retainers and market wards. I'm sure it would sound as stupid in a SE review board.. They could save a lot of effort by doing a normal AH from the start.

[Jennestia]

So they giving us AH functionality, without making an AH, going by the trouble of making this all via retainers and market wards. I'm sure it would sound as stupid in a SE review board.. They could save a lot of effort by doing a normal AH from the start.

They're adding in "AH functionality" because the Market Wards are the same thing as an Auction House -- Your retainers can seek and buy items for you which is something a standard auction house cannot do.

[Shougun]

I was playing left for dead, then I logged into the market wards. I was thinking, what if you could buy a chainsaw. . . . Can finally put both your retainers in the market wards you want...


lol - I read somewhere they are organizing the market wards better? I really hope they stop the sea of people effect - in real market its walls of people, hope we get walls.

[Wolfie]

The only legitimate use I can see for bazaars is distributing items in a raid quickly by putting up 1 gil items. Everything else, the market wards or an auction house will do better.

In which case, having bazaars around just for that is f**king dumb.

[Issachar]

Player bazaars were useless and archaic. Most everyone just used it for additional storage.

[Reika]

I perfer retainers anyways. I dont really see how the current system is any different than an AH anyways, besides the fact that things arent really 'auctioned' (no bids). I'd rather not have a bidding system anyways, hated that about XI's AH. They're doubling both retainers bazarrs too. However, I think a system of where you can just select an item in your retainers inventory and mark it for sell (eliminate all bazaars all together) would be better, so you set whatever your retainer has that is tradeable for sale.

[Fated]

Most MMORPGs nowadays don't even have bazaar functionality anymore.

[Elexia]

Most MMORPGs nowadays don't even have bazaar functionality anymore.

Some don't even let you trade with players.

[Molly_Millions]

I'd love the improvement for being able to sell stuff and locate my retainer in the wards somehow.

If you're not selling stuff, that has nothing to do with the design of the MW. You are pricing stuff too high. The only thing design changes will do for you is make it more convenient to buy and sell things, but if you price stuff wrong, it's still not gonna sell.

Also, if you don't remember where you put your retainer, you could do one of two things; make a note of where you put them, or always put them in the same ward. Mine have been in the tanners row in uldah for months for example.

[Orophin]

Well, that was a rather monster topic regarding re-denomination and equipment. They haven't gone into any fine detail yet on the market system as a whole, so maybe they'll be able to explain their philosophy behind removing bazaars when that topic hopefully arises. It could be as simple as other people mentioned though; they were pretty underutilized and people just tended to use them as storage space.