The market needs an overhaul.

[Scyris]

I have to ask.. Why the hell can't you choose a quantity of items to buy off someone selling insted of being forced to buy the entire stack. I mean, did square somehow overlook this? I mean you could do this in 1.0 (pretty sure u could anyway) so why would they remove it in 2.0? Its just so damn annoying when you only need like a few of something and all you can find are stacks of 99 that you can't just buy like how many u need out of, your forced to take entire stack or none. Its just really silly when stack sizes are set soo high. Please fix this. Also fix the damn gil farmers using hacks to teleport from node to node instantly while your at it.

[Odd]

Known issue, fix coming soon. From a dev post a couple weeks ago.

[BlaineCraner]

They will? Huh. The tutorial stated that the current mechanic was intentional, so I thought they would not change it.
It kind of makes you think and forces you to sell your wares strategically.

One thing that puzzles me in the market is that people sell items for ludicrous prices. Why should I buy leather on the market for 100g a piece when I can buy it from an NPC for 8g a piece? :P

WoW mentality or something? I think the players need a fix in their economical plan.

[Scyris]

Known issue, fix coming soon. From a dev post a couple weeks ago.

Which? the market thing? or the teleport hack thing?

[Efrye]

Known issue, fix coming soon. From a dev post a couple weeks ago.

Do you have a source for that? From what I remember they stated that they have no plans of addressing it, but I could be wrong.

[HEC]

I also recall devs post confirming that the "batch" sale works as intended and will be not addressed / changes in any way currently.

[Scyris]

Yeah it is working as intended but its still effing stupid. But its square they been doing crap assbackwards since ff11.

[ArkhamNative]

Well it would be nice if they added a feature to let the seller choose a minimum quantity that defaults to the full amount, but I wouldn't want SE to make it so buyers could go against the seller's intentions.

For example, say I list 100 shards and the default would be that you have to buy 100 shards. But I could list 100 and set a minimum buy of 10 or 12. Once there are fewer than the minimum left on the market board, the market board could either return the items to the seller or change the minimum to that quantity.

[Anders]

I don't agree.

Why should you be able to pick apart my bundle of goods? You can't go into a grocery store an pull out one can of soda from a case of sodas, and then take it to the check-out stand and buy it, can you?

If I'm dumb enough to make too-large bundles, then I should be punished in the marketplace by lack of sales. If I don't do my market research, then I should be having a hard time as a merchant.

Please, SE, leave the feature as it is. Instead, please develop a suite of market analysis tools to the Market Board / Retainer system. There are plenty of worked examples out there in MMO-land for you to emulate. For example, the folks at CURSE.com have all sorts of nifty Auction House add-ins that add great value to numerous other MMO games.

Also, I'd like to be able to place Buy Orders with my Retainer, as well.

[Aria_Mugen]

It would just be really nice if the window stayed open so I could buy multiple stacks if I'd like instead of having to jump through hoops to buy more.