The seriously need to geet rid of the market wards / retainer system in 2.0 or I am going to dump this game immediately.
Even though it's much improved from what it was at launch, it's still needlessly complex, with an unusable UI, and just beyond saving. There is literally nothing about it that FFXI didn't do better with its Auction House.
I need to buy new gear to actually progress at this point, and I haven't logged in for a few days simply because I don't feel like dealing with that horrid interface to find appropriate upgrades as a buyer. I haven't even tried selling anything besides some crystals just because of the hoops you have to jump through to actually do a price check and sell something.
That's been Final Fantasy's problem though for the past several years, though, I suppose. They ignore established conventions and best practices and try to "innovate", but there's very little logic or reasoning behind any of the decisions they're making besides "being different".
This game has a long ways to go for 2.0 aside from just the market, though. It's 1000x better than what it was at launch, but it's still far away from what FFXI was or pretty much any MMO I'd want to play in the long term.