We need an AH

[Akira_Tenshi]

Maybe i am sick of ward telling me i can't put my retainer there forcing me to put it in another ward. Maybe i am also sick of just how long it takes to buy things. It is a crap system.

[Brickz]

yeah, and that i guess may take 2 o 3 seconds after buying out the item and jumping out of the auction house to click de mailbox that is next to you.

i was thinking the same thing maybe they were playing a different wow than i was cause i remember next to each AH there was a mailbox not even 5 sec from it ... also the buy option on wow is used at least 80% of the time unless it about to expire then someone will use that bid as a cheaper option if possible. so please give us an AH , wards suck.

[Seif]

I'd rather take 2 minutes to go pick up an item instantly then wait an hour for an AH delivery system like WoW. Where I have to backtrack to a mailbox once it finally comes in to pick it up.

Wow you really have no idea whatsoever how XI ah works do you?

Btw that wow AH no matter how completely irrelevant to THIS discussion is does sound like a badly designed mess of a system. Almost as bad as the MW but both are light-years behind XI's AH.

[Jinko]

Wow you really have no idea whatsoever how XI ah works do you?

Btw that wow AH no matter how completely irrelevant to THIS discussion is does sound like a badly designed mess of a system. Almost as bad as the MW but both are light-years behind XI's AH.

LOL you say WoW's "sounds" like a badly designed system, based on something you heard from someone else and then compare it to something you do know, all whilst making the statement "you have no idea".

WoW's AH system is much much better than FFXI's AH and Cair is grossly exaggerating about the mail box system, 99% of cases when you win an auction in WoW are sent directly to your mailbox which is a few steps away from the AH itself. (no waiting)

This is a good example of not believing everything you read on the internetz.

[Payadopa]

In FFXIV people are undercutting by an asinine amount opposed to XI's system where people would look up the history and undercut by a small amount. I was selling Pearl Rings for 50k a pop til someone just comes along and undercuts me by 60%. 60 PERCENT!

Like honestly? Honestly?

Don't get me wrong, but what's wrong with that? What would you do if someone offered you a service for 50€ and the next one for 25€? As long as the other one is making money with it, so be it. Once we have more players you'll see this all the time. That's free market economy, I'd say.

[Armok]

I think there should be an AH just because of the smoothness it brings.

Got not problem atm using market wards, but it just feels clunky. Kind of like
going running with big massive boots instead of running shoes.

Still works, just feels urgh.

[Jinko]

Don't get me wrong, but what's wrong with that? What would you do if someone offered you a service for 50€ and the next one for 25€? As long as the other one is making money with it, so be it. Once we have more players you'll see this all the time. That's free market economy, I'd say.

Because a stable economy it does not make.

[Payadopa]

Because a stable economy it does not make.

And why is that so? So you basically say everyone else who's smarter than the person selling for way too much must be punished? Just walk into a store. Or search items on the internet. You'll always find price differentiations. lol That's life.

[Jinko]

And why is that so? So you basically say everyone else who's smarter than the person selling for way too much must be punished? Just walk into a store. Or search items on the internet. You'll always find price differentiations. lol That's life.

Because say for example real life is kept in check by profit / competition, granted this takes place to some extent in a video game but there are always those who don't care about making a loss on something just to sell, which then creates an instability in the marketplace.

Its a good reason why the History feature in FF11 works and why there is an addon for WoW which determines the average price of scanned items on the AH.

People want stability it makes it easier not only to sell but to buy.

[Molly_Millions]

We don't need an AH, the market wards work just fine.