I always thought FFXI's AH was worse than WoW's AH. In FFXI you have:

  • People monopolise prices.
  • Can only put up 7 items for sale at one time.
  • Find it hard to see popular items up for sale (I spent about 3 days trying to buy all my HQ staves).
  • Overpriced.
  • Taxes are overpriced (yes, you pay taxes to put stuff up for sale).
  • Sometimes you're better off sticking to rare/ex gear until you can get more rare/ex gear (meaning unless you have millions upon millions of gil, you will find it hard to gear yourself up well with the medium priced gear).


So no, the AH in FFXI isn't its strong point. Not by a far stretch. In fact, it's caused many many problems over the last 6 years. It and the way the crafting system is set up, makes it extremely hard to get gil even at high levels (unless you want to sell your soul to a HNM linkshell, which trust me; is not something you want to do).