Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
We already have a "full fledged auction house" complete with item search and direct purchases." Listing items for sale may be a hassle at the moment, but beyond that, the current system has everything an AH has and more except timed auctions, which I DO NOT WANT. I don't want to wait hours to buy an item, I want the item right then and there. All they need to do is fully integrate all three nations (which is planned) so there is plenty of space for everything, and do something to accelerate the process of listing items. Once that happens, I will have no complaints.

Beyond that, with this change we will also be able to list twice as many items for sale on the markets.

The only reason player bazaars are being removed is because nobody really used them much, except for things they weren't really designed for.
Except there is one key flaw with the ward system, and that is limited space. If they continue to try and make the wards a physical place that people can visit this one flaw will continue to hinder its use.

I vendor 99% of the crap I get for the simple reason that most of it isn't worth the hassle of trying to get one of my retainers on the wards to try and sell it to someone else.

If not everyone can easily get items on the wards for sale it's not a good system.

They've brought it a long way so far... but if they try to keep the function of the wards as renderable space then it is kind of a giant waste of resources.

If they moved it to a theoretical place, and we sent our retainers "off to the wards" via a menu, and it only populated as such it would work significantly better and wouldn't limit the amount of available space on servers with larger populations.

The wards don't need to be some room packed to the gills with lifeless zombie npcs with bazaars that we can check one by one if we want to.