I realize this is closed beta, I was in the first one. But I don’t ever recall the market being down for most of the day every single day. This is how people get gear to level up. Having the market down all this time is limiting peoples ability to play in the harder areas if they can’t upgrade their gear. Could IMC please tell us what the deal is with it? Do you have a plan to fix it? Is it on the Korean versions game also? Will it be like this the whole closed beta? Please let us know. Thanks 
It probably just crashes due to all the people using it at once and they need to stabilize it.
The chats and friend system too.
I believe in the business hour of koreans is the problem to iCBT.
I believe what @SuicideSamurai said is basically the problem; the servers simply can’t handle the amount of people playing at the moment. I’m not too versed in what happened in the korean beta, but I think it had less players and/or they got a better server over there.
In my experience the market is usually working at times when there are fewer players online, such as in the mornings (european time).
Pretty sure they were using Nexon servers. As opposed to crappy Amazon whatever. <_<
I’m not sure that’s the problem. For one, the market isn’t down for everyone. And for some people (like me) it has been down for days without a break, and I login in various times of the day.
I just wanna say… you dont need to buy gear to level up, at all. How do you think the first people that got to high level did it? xP
I don’t know, but I’d guess the market’s search function isn’t very efficient and gets overloaded when a ton of people do very general searches on a huge number of listings. They’re clearly trying to do something since they announced that before the emergency maintenance, but it’ll probably be difficult and take a while.
If somebody can’t handle harder areas with the gear they can farm themselves, they really need to improve their skills. Skills at playing the game, not class levels. That, or make friends with better players and party.
However, as of this writing… The Saule market place is and has been up since Server launch. I know that not long… but 