We need an AH

[Leowilde]

People talk about wanting this game to be realistic and unique. Now, swapping the NPC market system for a single-window AH is not what I call neither realistic nor unique. The Market Wards makes the player part of the world. Having to walk among the retainers to find what you're looking for is part of the gameplay, part of the pretend. And in all honesty: if we can walk from Limsa to Coerthas, we can stroll for a couple of minutes to get our new gear.

However, there are improvements that need to be done, and both we and the developers know this. For one, it is essential to adjust the prizes of items already in the bazaar, without having to remove them and add again. And as already mentioned, linking the wards from each city state into one single ward would be beneficial. As it stands at the moment, Gridania's market is dry, and new adventurers starting out there will have to undertake a long journey early on if they want to upgrade their gear at all. A common market wards would solve that.

[Hubert]

However, there are improvements that need to be done, and both we and the developers know this. For one, it is essential to adjust the prizes of items already in the bazaar, without having to remove them and add again. And as already mentioned, linking the wards from each city state into one single ward would be beneficial. As it stands at the moment, Gridania's market is dry, and new adventurers starting out there will have to undertake a long journey early on if they want to upgrade their gear at all. A common market wards would solve that.

Most likely when Ishgard is released the majority of retainers will be parked in the Ishgard ward (assuming there is one). New players would find it extremely beneficial to visit all the cities early on to access additional leves anyhow, and now there are NPCs who sell low level weapons and armor within the wards themselves. Furthermore, linking the wards will bring about overcrowding and shouldn't be done without first restructuring the ward system.

[Leowilde]

Furthermore, linking the wards will bring about overcrowding and shouldn't be done without first restructuring the ward system.

That is a good point.

[Amsai]

People talk about wanting this game to be realistic and unique. Now, swapping the NPC market system for a single-window AH is not what I call neither realistic nor unique. The Market Wards makes the player part of the world. Having to walk among the retainers to find what you're looking for is part of the gameplay, part of the pretend. And in all honesty: if we can walk from Limsa to Coerthas, we can stroll for a couple of minutes to get our new gear.

You've never heard me ask for something so ridiculous. I want convenience not realism to this level and not something that only really pleases the tiny tiny RP minority. Besides, I thought this game was about making an MMO more casual friendly? Well they succeded with leves, and travel, and class changing. But they failed horribly with crafting and gathering in general, and the repair system, and the MW system.

Give me convenience, or Give me death!

[Leowilde]

I want convenience not realism to this level and not something that only really pleases the tiny tiny RP minority. Besides, I thought this game was about making an MMO more casual friendly?

Fair enough. But I am not talking about RP. I am talking about a system that, with more work and adjustments, is more unique and creative than the average AH system. By all means, it's not convenient yet, but come more updates to the MW and hopefully it will be.

[Kallera]

You've never heard me ask for something so ridiculous. I want convenience not realism to this level and not something that only really pleases the tiny tiny RP minority. Besides, I thought this game was about making an MMO more casual friendly? Well they succeded with leves, and travel, and class changing. But they failed horribly with crafting and gathering in general, and the repair system, and the MW system.

Give me convenience, or Give me death!

You want convenience over the actual home grown look of a marketing community? Go play Crystal Defenders. Not all of us want to stare blankly at a wall for hours.

[Amsai]

You want convenience over the actual home grown look of a marketing community? Go play Crystal Defenders. Not all of us want to stare blankly at a wall for hours.

Im sorry I offended that 1% of the community. I appologize.

[GreyWolf]

You want convenience over the actual home grown look of a marketing community? Go play Crystal Defenders. Not all of us want to stare blankly at a wall for hours.

I don't ever recall standing infront of FFXI's AH for hours >.>; normally I would go buy my stuff and leave, the only real time sink was waiting for the lag in jeuno/whitegate

I'd prefer convenience too I don't have the extra time to be wasting

[Cairdeas]

I don't ever recall standing infront of FFXI's AH for hours >.>; normally I would go buy my stuff and leave, the only real time sink was waiting for the lag in jeuno/whitegate

I'd prefer convenience too I don't have the extra time to be wasting

If you were trying to get certain items that fluctuated price hugely no matter what the supply/demand was because of Market Manipulation going on with the price history was easy to manipulate you could end up spending up to an hour trying to buy one item because the price was so drastically different And going from trying to get a item that says its worth 5K based on the price history you end up bidding over and over again at 1k increments till you end up buying it for almost 50k. Each bid taking 10-20 seconds because of lag not to mention the time spent going back into the price history over and over again to confirm that hell. the last 10 were bought for 5k yeah and theres 10 in stock, but every time you bid it comes back sorry your bid failed.

I spent an hour doing this one day. I barely had time to play the game afterwards I was stuck bidding on items that the prices were jacked up on.