I guess it depends on when you started playing the game. I've been playing since launch so I have seen some changes of course. I mean, I still remember trying to find items without the market ward item search. Heck, that was a gigantic improvement alone. But as someone that has been playing since release, I've just got fed up with continuously waiting for a game to improve that was wrong from the beginning. I mean, who releases a game with a gigantic market ward system with retainers for each player... and then don't add in an item search? Just confuses me. How could they forget such a vital thing to an mmo and to a game in general? Even logic would side with an item search... when there is lots of items...

Anyway, regardless I'm still a fan of FFXIV. I know it had potential to be amazing, still does. Just something went wrong along the lines. I think they rushed the release to be honest.