These changes sound promising and it honestly looks like SE's new development team leads might be making a difference. It seems they are making a lot of quick-fixes that would take an experienced programmer little no time at all to implement. Hopefully soon, they will start tackling some of the harder more involved issues...especially making the game more fun and adding content.

An more-user-friendly, less-buggy working beautiful world is a great start. If we could just get some content thrown into that world, I'd be a bit happier. I wouldn't even mind some instances/dungeons we could do for say 25-100 fraction point's a successfully completed dungeon(as something to do when we are done our guildleves). Based of what class you took into the dungeon.

This is one step towards a good idea to do in the market search!

find what you need faster!

I like the idea and even the "distinguishing icon" over the person and i too think this will improve on the search woes... However, a function like this cant be utilized for just 1 problem. Why not make it for friends, party members/seekers, search comments, things like that and by it I mean "distinguishing icons over the head of the respective avatar". I dont want to crap on the update memo, but this is a mmo (the latest and greatest) that has plenty of solo capabilities, but it still is a MMO. And that means networking in every way not just retainers but players out there adventuring in Eorza. I just feel so hopeless that I know people want to team up and communicate out there just like me but there is no way to identify them or me not even a simple search function. These icons (and of course some sort of search query) could help in multiple ways. Especially if SE does intend to never go the AH way.

Lets think about applying this concept to every search factor (maybe put a search filter in our menu) to add or hide icons repectively and to reduce or supply the player with an icon display. All we have are bazaar and linkshell icons, okay, but people are usually more complex than that. And there is no real adventurer search menu so what do we do to comunicate to each other... Lodestone forums? I dont think it would be such a bad idea to display icon over the heads of avatars to inform everyone on just that, different icons for different queries. Or we can just use them for the broken market wards and let the retainer have all the fun.

This seems like a reasonable compromise. A search function and substantial incentives to sell things in the correct ward. Even if it is not exactly what you wanted you have to admit it is significantly better than what we had.

@illuminarok, dam at least wait till they install it and give it a chance then bash on it if its not what you would expect it to be lol...@cortain, yeah i agree they should of just put a AH lol, but lets see what kind of changes this new system they have got and hope for the best...as for me im i really dont care if they use the AH or Market system as long as its funtionable, navigatable and enjoyable lol

This just sounds like a primitive auction house in the works except in an auction house you don't have to go searching for the retainer and later will already have a price set by whoever is selling at the cheapest once that search function is added. So why not just make it easier for players by adding an auction house now?

I am stoked about how this is going to turn out. It's a win-win situation. Either it works and continues to work and we can finally get what we need to actually play and enjoy the game, or it crashes and burns and they start from scratch with a system that actually has a solid foundation. I'm not saying it needs to be an AH...but they work for the most part and are the best "Pro vs. Con" ratio market system to date. I am not in any way discouraging inovation, only encouraging success. And let's not turn this into another AH and MW troll fest. It accomplishes nothing.