Why so adamant on keeping the Market Place?

[Mack]

Because it works. At launch it was pretty awful but now that it works as intended there's no need for an AH. Let the game differentiate itself from XI in just one more way.

This isn't to be "different", if it wants to be different it has to be better and FFXIV obviously hasn't been considering the lash back it got - I'm sure you witnessed what everyone else has seen happen to the game too. I don't mind the game being different but if its to prevent RMT at the cost of the players' fun then no thanks, and considering that the player base in this game now is about 25% RMT I'd say they haven't done a good job nor would they ever be able to get rid of them because they will always find a way. You want to prevent them, ban people for buying gil, do not put artificial road blocks in front of everything because all that does is harms the players.

[Arcell]

considering that the player base in this game now is about 25% RMT I'd say they haven't done a good job nor would they ever be able to get rid of them because they will always find a way.

I'd really love to see your source on those numbers. No seriously, I'd actually really like to see that data.

[Mack]

I also don't see how they would solve a fluctuation in numbers given that the PS3 release will bring with it a pretty significant increase in players. I dunno, it just doesn't make sense to me. Plus, with an AH, your items are automatically placed in the right category with no penalty "for placing your retainer in the wrong wards" which is through no fault of your own really when you have so much crap to sell. The AH clearly still has an advantage, and until SE tells us why they are sticking to retainers, the AH will always have an advantage because this is as good as MW get. And the reason isn't because they wanna stop RMT and its not because they wanna be different.