We need an AH

[RinL]

I still don't get what an AH has more releavant than a Market Ward. I mean... IT'S THE F*CKING SAME THING!

Don't drop things that are awesome and place something repeatitive and boring out of the blue!

Since after reading this lot of stuff I didn't find a good reason that contrasts my last post, I'll keep in my mind that having an AH is a dead argument =)

Well, I guess it boils down to how you like to play the game as an individual.

Many players do not want to have to run to a location, search for an item, run to another location, purchase the item, then start over or move to different wards to get whatever else they need.

The current ward system also does not really help players who want to find the best deals on common items. Who likes sorting through 24234134 retainers to find the best deal on crystals?

Also, im not a huge fan of having each city sectioned off from each other with the market wards. An Auction House could help to tie everyone together without having a huge overflow of retainers in the wards.

In my opinion, an Auction House system would do great so long as they implemented a delivery system along with it. Being able to visit one place in each main town and easily search through the available goods other players want to post is a great help to players. After you finish all your shopping (no zoning, just searching for the different items you want to guy) you can just head down to your mog house or the local mailbox and pick up your goods.

The AH system is just much easier than the market wards. At least it is in my opinion.

Thanks!

[Tonka]

Well, I guess it boils down to how you like to play the game as an individual.

Many players do not want to have to run to a location, search for an item, run to another location, purchase the item, then start over or move to different wards to get whatever else they need.

The current ward system also does not really help players who want to find the best deals on common items. Who likes sorting through 24234134 retainers to find the best deal on crystals?

Also, im not a huge fan of having each city sectioned off from each other with the market wards. An Auction House could help to tie everyone together without having a huge overflow of retainers in the wards.

In my opinion, an Auction House system would do great so long as they implemented a delivery system along with it. Being able to visit one place in each main town and easily search through the available goods other players want to post is a great help to players. After you finish all your shopping (no zoning, just searching for the different items you want to guy) you can just head down to your mog house or the local mailbox and pick up your goods.

The AH system is just much easier than the market wards. At least it is in my opinion.

Thanks!

That makes far too much sense for your logic to be welcomed here.

[DoubleEcho]

I have nothing to add but Tonka, I love your signature dude

[Renshi]

Well, I guess it boils down to how you like to play the game as an individual.

Many players do not want to have to run to a location, search for an item, run to another location, purchase the item, then start over or move to different wards to get whatever else they need.

The current ward system also does not really help players who want to find the best deals on common items. Who likes sorting through 24234134 retainers to find the best deal on crystals?
There's a Search engine for a reason!

Also, im not a huge fan of having each city sectioned off from each other with the market wards. An Auction House could help to tie everyone together without having a huge overflow of retainers in the wards.
Ishgard could do as the main stream of the wards, who knows =)

In my opinion, an Auction House system would do great so long as they implemented a delivery system along with it. Being able to visit one place in each main town and easily search through the available goods other players want to post is a great help to players. After you finish all your shopping (no zoning, just searching for the different items you want to buy) you can just head down to your mog house or the local mailbox and pick up your goods.
... Sorry, I couldn't resist =D

The AH system is just much easier than the market wards. At least it is in my opinion.

Thanks!

Thank you for replying at least!

Everything you wrote is right, but I wouldn't substitute a system in a 50/50 situation. If I recall it correctly, Yoshi-P said that he wanted to implement an AH, but infos are really low, so for now we have to stop being some lazy asses and start searching in the wards like everybody do.

Who knows! Maybe the AH will search through the Retainers in Eorzea. We'll see what SE comes with their minds =)

Ah, and use the Search system more. It seems that it's not common to you, but with that you can easily seek the best price for anything. Just practice that a lil' more!

[Joe_Cool]

I'd rather have Market Wards

[KaiKatzchen]

Personally I like the Market Wards and I don't think that we need an AH in the game for a few reasons:

-It gives you all the info you need before you enter the wards.

-I don't mind the extra minute or two it takes me to warp to a ward to find something, better than standing in front of a AH like a zombie.

-In FFXI you could only have like 7 things up at a time on the AH, with the Market Ward you can have 10 up at a time multiplied by however many retainers you have and all the retainers can be up at the same time. At the moment that means I can sell 20 (30 if you count the fact I can sell 10 things on my character as well and it doesn't show up in my inventory space if I have it in bazzar.) things at once time versus only selling 7 things on a AH like FFXI had. Which means I save time not having to go back to the AH constantly to see if things sold and put up more things if they have sold.

Also it saves space on my character because I can keep all things on my retainer, go back and check now and then and just pop it into my bazaar if I have the space while I'm standing there versus

1) Either taking up inventory space on my character by keeping things I need sold on me
or
2) Going to check AH, seeing I have stuff sold and can put more up, running to Retainer, grabbing items off retainers, running back to AH and putting it up. Which is a lot more time than just looking up the item I need and warping to the ward and buying it.

Anyway with the changes they have made to the Wards, it's pretty much an AH anyway. A few more changes and it will be pretty much perfect.

[Hiemdall]

The Market Wards have already come long way. Sure they need/will get better, but they are the same idea as an AH just not centralized. I like the idea of Market Wards. SE keep the Market Wards, but if you must implement some sort of AH make it for one way area and for specific items....say a Fish Market in LL, or some city/land not yet implemented.

[CrystalW]

What will happen to MWs if more people play? Some rows are already packed at some point on my server. How will they manage the new players' retainers? make huge rows so we have to run around everywhere to get our items? MWs annoy me because people don't always have their retainer in that specific row and I'm running back to the search to look for where it is! I really don't like that there is no price history when I want to put something for sale, also don't like how you can see the prices when you search, people undercut like hell

[Mack]

What will happen to MWs if more people play? Some rows are already packed at some point on my server. How will they manage the new players' retainers? make huge rows so we have to run around everywhere to get our items? MWs annoy me because people don't always have their retainer in that specific row and I'm running back to the search to look for where it is! I really don't like that there is no price history when I want to put something for sale, also don't like how you can see the prices when you search, people undercut like hell

This. They will probably have a solution for this but it'll be so half cooked it wont even matter. If there's a player spike at PS3 release on top of the fact that people can own and run up to (what?) 7 retainers....its gonna get even messier and fast. Ul'Dah wards are packed already and barely anyone plays now.

[Ava]

If they are going to stick with the current market ward system, I would at least want a price history added. With that, we'd have most of the features a traditional AH offers, just with a slightly more time consuming process.

Ultimately, though, as I posted in another thread, I'd rather they just close the wards, turn retainers into moogles (or equivalent) for storage, and give us a traditional style AH.