We need an AH

[Seif]

My point was that I have yet to see any one say the reason they WANT an auction house is because they want Auctions. Instead they complain of Time and Convenience.

Seriously?! So what? I don't want an e-bay-XIV where I have to wait tens of minutes to make sure I can buy the item I want.

I want to play the GAME dammit!

Yes, YES it's about time and convenience and the market wards don't provide neither! I hate it so much that even if they fixed it to be like a real AH I'd still hate it because of just the name reminds me of the horrible mess it has been. I hate everything about it. The zoning, loading, zombie seller, the hassle, the guesswork pricing and the fact that it's so retarded.

[Cairdeas]

Seriously?! So what? I don't want an e-bay-XIV where I have to wait tens of minutes to make sure I can buy the item I want.

I want to play the GAME dammit!

Yes, YES it's about time and convenience and the market wards don't provide neither! I hate it so much that even if they fixed it to be like a real AH I'd still hate it because of just the name reminds me of the horrible mess it has been. I hate everything about it. The zoning, loading, zombie seller, the hassle, the guesswork pricing and the fact that it's so retarded.

I'm sorry you can't be helped then. :/

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nd-Convenience. fixes everything people complain about the MW. Auctions are arbitrary and time consuming so an Auction house would be just as bad as the MW is now.

[Seif]

I'm sorry you can't be helped then. :/

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nd-Convenience. fixes everything people complain about the MW. Auctions are arbitrary and time consuming so an Auction house would be just as bad as the MW is now.

Do us all a favor and never ever work in UI design:

1. Whatever you're saying ignores the fact that zoning to the wards is one of the biggest problems in the wards. (basically that they exist)

2.This actually a handy feature to have and is present in most AHs in MMOs

3.Yay not needed pop up windows! No, just no.

4. Stuff needs to be in the AH clean and simple I've got enough to worry about in my own inventory to worry about the status and location of my retainers is too much and counter productive to your whole idea's title. Also see #1.

5. See above.

6. A horrible idea an AH can gather people at certain locations and gives the world the feeling that it's alive. Like Jeuno. Imagine if nobody went to Jeuno to use an AH. *tumbleweed*

[Elexia]

People still over glorifying the AH system I see. MW and AH are basically the same system, MW lacks literally only 2 features given XIV's current design, 1 if you think about it and that's buying from the search.

Both systems have unnecessary steps
Both systems requires going to a centralized place
Both systems are basically the same.

It's ONLY because other MMOs have an AH that people want one just like other MMOs have jump people want it here. If no MMOs had jump or an AH I can guarantee no one would be glorifying them.

[Vackashken]

People still over glorifying the AH system I see. MW and AH are basically the same system, MW lacks literally only 2 features given XIV's current design, 1 if you think about it and that's buying from the search.

Both systems have unnecessary steps
Both systems requires going to a centralized place
Both systems are basically the same.

It's ONLY because other MMOs have an AH that people want one just like other MMOs have jump people want it here. If no MMOs had jump or an AH I can guarantee no one would be glorifying them.

"man, I sure do like my DSL better then dial up"

"YOURE GLORIFYING IT!"

Thats how I read that

[Elexia]

"man, I sure do like my DSL better then dial up"

"YOURE GLORIFYING IT!"

Thats how I read that

Yeah, since that's saying the AH system is better, yet all it is is a common system used among MMOs. MW system are basically one in the same.

[Flower]

I disagree I really like the market wards system. IF they add an AH it would only ruin what we already have good going.

[Elexia]

I'm playing the game with the MW system, I don't need an AH to "play the game", but I've played MMOs with all types of market systems so I know that it isn't an absolutely necessity, especially considering no one wants the bidding type of AH, they basically want a glorified NPC shop that sells everything in the game.

[Tonka]

Why cling to the market wards? What is so great about having to teleporting around and navigate countless menus over and over again. And I like my prices to be competitive so having to look up the item (menus and their lag) run back to my retainer and put a price on it (menus and lag) and run back and forth and do that until everything I want to sell is in my bazaar...

OR, type what you want in, click BUY, receive in mail. And you can buy multiple things without even leaving the AH window! Buy this buy that, run and pick it all up. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY. Same for selling. Is this a true Auction House? Who gives a crap what the actual definition of an Auction House is? In a lot of MMOs an Auction House is just a place to buy and sell things among other players CONVENIENTLY. Whether they should be called that or not is another story.

Current system is annoying. The Market Wards are wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for them. Like badwrong, or badong. Yes, they are badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of Market Wards: gnodab.

[Elexia]

Why cling to the market wards? What is so great about having to teleporting around and navigate countless menus over and over again.

Certain AH systems you have to navigate menus over and over and over, especially as you continue to level up more and more. Hell you even have to expand and collapse categories over and over unless the particular system saves your settings, which a lot of times they do not.

You even have to know item IDs for searching on some as some AH's search system goes by ID rather than actual name. So in reality, MW only lacks so few things when compared to an AH because both systems get the job done.

Though maybe I'm imagining everyone wearing weapon and armor outside of the starter class gear.