Meet the Auction!

Thank you for participating in the Auction testing!

Since this Auction was experimental, we decided to end it using a single-price system. This means that all winners paid the same price equal to the lowest possible bid at the end of the Auction (during the Auction, this was displayed on the red “Make a bid” button; it’s the sum of the lowest winning bid and the bid increment). The remaining amounts of each participant’s bid has been unfrozen on their accounts.

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this is the main problem currently

there is always some feed back
"tiger 1 needs go to 4.0 " , “no tiger needs to go to 6.0” …
historical brs , ww2 separation
whatever
and gaijin needs to decides whats important and what not

but this here is vastly different given the feedback goas overwhelmingly in a single direction without anyone arguing for it at all

There’s three sides to this, players, content creators and Gaijin.


Players

The good

  • More cosmetic options added to the game

The bad

  • Artificially limited availability on camouflages
  • Highly inflated prices for game content
  • Need to purchase GJN to participate, which can’t be refunded, forcing a player to spend money even if they don’t “win” the right to buy
  • No console availability
  • Possibility of escalation into more aspects of the game (such as vehicles)

Content Creators

The good

  • Additional option to get their content into the game
  • Good pay (possibly)

The bad

  • Their hard work is limited to obscurity
  • Bad pay (possibly)

Gaijin

The good

  • Additional income
  • Generally high prices
  • Low effort (since camouflages would be player made)
  • Possibility to expand past cosmetics

The bad

  • Limited sales due to limited quantity
  • Limited target customers due to inflated prices
  • Limited target customers due to lack of console support
  • Negative reputation

Overall I’d say other options, such as for example a weekly rotating camouflage store for user camos and seasonal items (such as the profile frame) as a GE based store in the game would be a lot more beneficial to all, so I hope that is considered instead.

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name checks out at least

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you forgot the part of content creators getting hate for making/promoting unachievable skins making people lose money

I want to be fair.

But I cannot understand—if the developers are so passionate about the game, why are they making these changes? If these changes in the Auction weren’t made by the developers themselves but were instead ordered from above, I struggle to see how this is can be so black and white. Are there no higher-ups who are as passionate about the game as studios like Arrowhead?

I just don’t get it. There are so many bullet holes in this game that remain unpatched. Wouldn’t better motives and treatment of the community lead to more doubloons? One of the reasons I bought Helldivers 2 was because of the passionate dev team—like the CEO who stepped down to a lower position so a more capable person could take charge.

One of the reasons I haven’t spent more than 40 euros on this game is because it feels untrustworthy. Why are we getting so much copy-paste content? Imagine if, instead of the M26 copy-paste, we got the Rocket T-62. The videos around it would be popular and drive more player to install this game. This just feels like corner-cutting to push content out. I don’t want these SPAA’s.

Spoiler

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I want these

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Gaijin i want these
Object 640 (Black Eagle)
BT-7A (L-11)
IS-7 model 1946. The forgotten older brother.
one of these
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SUKHOI SU-47 BERKUT

and many other things, like a bomber rework—please, for once, don’t let this game become wasted potential.

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That would have been a good thing to announce at the beginning :)

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first move in the right direction very good

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9AM UTC for me as well

Thank you

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Not sure about the “brave” part.

It is poor form to change the rules after the game.

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You spent 144,65GJN on cosmetics, which is perfectly fine if you have the disposable income and feel good about it.
Btw, thanks for sharing the info for what the 3 items were actually sold for.

I think the majority of players thinks that they can get at least 2, maybe more, premium vehicles for that amount of money which help with the grind and give SLs…I’m certainly one of them :)

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In this case it’s a good change though.

It only made it so all player pay an equal price, which was selected to be the minimum bid (lowest possible price). That’s a change that’s literally only good for players, and bad for nobody except Gaijin who could’ve made more money off keeping them high.

It’s a net positive.

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The message community waited for, but did not receive (yet). When the WT marketing manager will publish its verdict on the auction thing? Will it be the first and the last time we see this anti-consumer feature!?

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I have never spent a dime on GJD. I have more than I will ever need. I wish I could gift them, boy would I have fans in this forum…lol.

I agree it is a stupid purchase. But it is just funny money to me.

For the record: My screenshot of the auction ending was removed as ‘Flagged as SPAM’, I didn’t remove it.

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yea end it for good is what the majority is waiting for

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“Thank you for participating in the Auction testing!”
" we decided to end it" …hopefully forever mate. This idea was awful and should never return. Singlehandedly the most unpopular idea i’ve witnessed since the repair cost increase just prior to a B52 level even on steam.

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Thank you very much for your reply.

Now that the auction system has been shut down, what will the deadline be? Has there been any change?

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