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I feel like 90% of that is refuted by the existence of Owls of Minerva. I'm not saying that the auction house is bad or anything, but at the same time, there's not anything wrong with the FM existing as it is.
If anything I would have thought they'd eventually merge Auction house's expanded search filter and integrate it into the Free Market to replace Owls.
You are correct that the owl has helped the market much better than it use to be. However, there are still some issues with it. The search feature on the owls isn't as detailed as the search feature in the auction house. You have to have multiple owls in order to properly merch well or find the items you are looking for. Where as in the auction house you can just search with detailed specifics and not having to worry about carrying a lot of owls around. Also the fact that owls are sold in item shops and not directly in the free market. This can create more of a hassle going back and forth. The good thing though is they fixed the stacking issue so at least it only takes out one slot instead of multiple slots. I still personally believe the auction house is far better than the free market and it's long over due. The only ones that will really care for the free market are the merchers and people who are into nostalgia. They should have removed the free market long time ago and implemented the auction house from the get go.
I'm curious how they will improve Auction house for people that need to sell items above max mesos without spamming super megaphones or increasing meso cap.
I do not think they would let us buy with NX otherwise.
uuhh... in KMS owls still cost NX, are split into 2 different items and are not given away for free in their general stores, that was/is a GMS exclusive thing.
another thing is that, in KMS when they got the AH, most of the FM rooms were removed to push the AH system anyway.
the point of this is to basically unify the selling system, by making AH the only market system and adding improvements to AH to make it better than FM, though as both a hangout spot (for friends and guilds) and a quick way to trade with someone who is in a completely different area, it will be missed, hopefully they will add something (Guild HQ's and a hangout area) to replace the unintentional uses that the FM had.
in KMS this will be mostly an improvement due to the fact that they do not have the gms exclusive changes (like owls for meso)
for people having trouble understanding why this is good, remember back to before owls were sold for meso (which was done after major delays in adding the unlimited search AH were still happening) and remember how a lot of free players where crying for AH to be implemented even in a broken state just so they could easily search, buy and sell without having to spend money. if AH was released in GMS with that climate at the time (without the bugs), it would have easily become the top way to sell anything and get anybody to find it with ease (because owls were not sold in general stores at the time, they cost NX, like it still is now for KMS).
the days of having to go stall by stall to both, find what you want to buy and compare prices died in GMS with the meso owls but not in KMS because they didnt get that change, if you want to search their FM and compare prices you have to either, go stall by stall or buy an owl with NX, while alternatively you can just search the AH for free.
all I'm saying is look at it from the KMS perspective not the GMS one.
I doubt that would even be possible as the AH system functions completely differently than stalls and even fixes certain issues that stalls have (that players currently take advantage of)
The Auction house is still far superior as all items available can be looked through without searching. Currently with fm you need to manually move from room to room and shop to shop to look through what's available.
No point keeping stuff in the game that serves no purpose anymore.
I'm glad they're making the auction house better but there's still a number of things they need to do before completely removing the free market. While they mentioned they are raising the meso cap and standardizing the tax. They didn't mention that they would be changing things so peoples names show in the auction house. This is very important and should have been a thing from the start. They need this so people can contact the people selling items and offer if needed. Once free market is gone there won't be any way in game for people to offer to others. We'll be forced to use websites and forums to list our sales and those are hardly effective. Not everyone uses them.
For some the free market will always hold a purpose.
The free market is pretty pointless and well out dated right now. The only "purpose" is nostalgia just like HHG, long boat rides, and those hidden portals. Times have changed and all mmos have the use of an auction house for there economy. I don't even think there's any other mmo out there besides maple that has a free market. The last one was Wonderking and that game died. Improving the auction house is the best thing they can do and will certainty help everyone in the long run.
People are trying to tie sentimental uses of the FM and the true purpose of the FM as the same thing.
however when the Devs look at this, the purpose of the FM was to centralize selling of items between players, so removing that area is fine when we now have AH. they can create a new place that fits the sentimental uses the FM had (hell they created star planet, which had hangout spots in it) and make it more suited for hanging out, meetups and also make a guild hall room/ guild house system.
Heh.. Mabinogi still has a free market. Just recently, an outfit is going for around 50m gold on the Mari server.
We were supposed to get an auction like years ago.