Please Merge Auction HousesFollow

This has probably been said before millions of times and also been posted here but for Altana's sake please merge all the Auction Houses into one. People in the starter cities get ripped off pretty bad being new when they are paying 10,000 gil for example Bone Armor when it is only 3,000 gil in Jeuno. This really discourages new players and once they buy that 10,000 gil piece it has already lost its value once they hit Jeuno. And prices usually fluctuate too much in the city auction houses due to the high demand and low listings. I mean yeah there's profitability for us veterans but it is one of the reasons I never list any armor that is low level that is cheaper from the NPC.

Please merge the Auction Houses. Well that's all I got.

3rded. Please at least link the three starter city AH's. I've just started a new account after a long hiatus, and it's discouraging to not be able to find gear. If the three starter cities had merged AH's that would do wonders for the supply increase.

Problem is that if the auction houses are merged, prices will not go down much at all. Instead of 3k bone armor, you'll look at 8-10k due to increase demands.
The majority of low level players are returners/subjob levelers, who know how to check FFXIAH and just pick up gear on their high level jobs.

This!

If Jeuno strikes a deal to better relations with the near east through the AH system, how does that look on the three nations?

Though I don't think this would cut down congestion in WG (which was never said just implying), one of the biggest reasons I like to go to WG is to listen to the /sh's that are going on to see if something is going on so personally I would love to see a type of global chat perhaps only accessable from cities and with a way to enable/disable with a simple /command. However that's for a different thread sorry got a little off topic. ><

Anywho, All for AH Merge!!!

Sorry to bump an old post, but, please do this. I know I'm joining rather late, but I just finally started up on FFXI on Carbuncle in Windurst. The Auction House literally has no gear. I've grinded up to 18, but I'm stuck in my best possible gear available to me. A level 9 dagger (got lucky and got it from the AH) and level 11 armor (From the npcs). I've tried making the run to Jeuno a few times, but simply get 1 shot by the dinosaurs along the way. I'm stuck grinding on easy prey monsters that will soon be too weak to gain exp from. And once those are gone, I don't think my level 9 dagger and 11 armor will cut it for the new "easy prey" monsters that I'll have to face. For now I'm hoping I can hold out to 20 and just get the Rank 2 conquest dagger, but, this is ridiculous :/

I know, I know, There is already a newer thread talking about this same idea. But Im bumping it anyway, I think SE needs to be reminded everyday since they obviously lack the common sense needed to do something as easy and important as this. So, bump, bump, bump SE

W...what? Supply does not automatically increase with demand, as if people magically knew when other people needed things. It's the relationship between supply and demand that determine price.

Edited, Aug 26th 2010 10:09pm by Speedly

Why would demand stay the same? When you are merging auction houses, you merge supply AND demand.

And how will new players earn gil if their niche markets are destroyed by bulk supply from all over the game?

There's no reason not to merge the AHs.

As for forcing a centralized community, I can't really say the current accomplishes that, either. Whitegate may be the current goto hub, but you're not seeing shouts if you're sitting in your moghouse or even if they're filtered. If SE was genuinely interested in promoted community interaction beyond the half-assed search system, they would've made a timer restricted universal chat channel that's monitored by GMs to keep the typical trash-talking bullsh*t off of it.

Personally, I have no preference on merging/not merging. But, I do have some thoughts.

To easily merge the AHs, you would need empty AHs. So, you would have to forcefully return everyone's items to their Delivery Box before merging. That would allow you to not have to worry about combining items that are currently on bid.


If merging the AHs wont work for other reasons that the playerbase simply does not know and understand, then I have another possible solution. Add a Jeuno AH NPC to each City AH. What would probably happen with this is that people will stop using the normal AH causing it to be completely empty, and would just use the Jeuno NPCs. But, that would allow people to access the Jeuno AH in the cities without any type of merger or integration of the systems.


Maybe you could tie something to it like needing to be Rank 4 to gain access (something similar to how the Tavnazia AH needs the proper CoP Mission completed before you can access it).


Rank 4 is suggested because that is when you have gotten the Jeuno Embassy NPC from Delkfukt's Tower, so it could make sense story wise. That would also put a requirement preventing abuse from junk RMT characters.