Removal of player Bazaar

[Alhanelem]

I love how people say "because its used as storage"
But why not just make it impossible to use for storage?

Explain to me how you would prevent people from using them as storage. There's really no way to avoid it- but that's not really even the main problem- People also abuse it to carry multiple U/U items because they don't count as part of your inventory.

People "store" stuff in their bazaar by "selling" it for an unreasonable price. Since nobody buys it, their stuff is safe (and if someone does buy it, you are now rich). There's no way to be able to sell stuff in it without it also doubling as storage, other than to make the bazaar not seperate from your inventory. Thing is, that doesn't completely solve the issue either. Remember FFXI? with people stuffing heart chocolates and other stuff they "dont want to accidentally drop" in their bazaars for 999999999 gil?

I completely agree with everything you say about the search function of the wards being exactly what an auction house would do. I don't think they need to scrap it or rebuild it or anything. I'm just saying we don't need rooms full of storage npcs.

Do you understand that the server does not render the NPCs? All it has is a bunch of XYcoordnates, and a name which links to a database containing the retainer info. The server doesn't have to do anything when there isn't anyone standing near a retainer.

One thing I like about them is it gives you the option of going to the NPC instead of buying from the menu and thereby saving you the fee if you aren't in a real hurry. This also creates an oppertunity for secondary impulse sales that doesn't exist with a regular AH system.