Meet the Auction!

Tweak or Adjust…

how about not bringing it to the game at all, its a really bad idea, not good for business

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if the game was in a good state, balanced, with bugs that players really care about fixed or at least mentioned regularly, maps fixed/improved, improved game modes, among other things that the game could be much better, i believe the action house wouldnt be a problem.

BUT: bug reports ignored for years, players left in the dark for years, no real changes to game modes, no real changes to maps for years, no real changes that players have been asking for for years (and when they do it, do it poorly) and they still want to add a new way to grab money? im sorry but i think the last thing you will get is constructive feedback

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Bug that i need fixed as I play SIM is the Sea Harrier HUD. It has no air to air symbols or radar symbols. Yet a bug report along with the full explanation of it has been accepted for over a year.
Sea Harrier FRS.1 (e) & Sea Harrier FRS.1 completely wrong HUD // Gaijin.net // Issues

Yet we get an auction.

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Naval is just slightly flawed and can be fixed. Im hugely in favor of keeping naval, as a player of air, ground and naval myself

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there are so many things could be done or working on
yet the developers choose the one which will lead to 99% negative review
just…why?
w h y ?

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Of course they can, but they are not listening us.
Year after years naval became wierd …

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One thing that is very important to me, and likely many other players as well though is if this could include vehicles?

I think it would be very harmful to lock anything besides optional non-historical cosmetics behind limited numbers in an auction system, where not every player has equal chances of receiving them purely based on how much money they try to “compete” with.

It’s already a debatable topic about old events in general regarding players that just weren’t around, but even then they could’ve been.
With auctions only the top 100 (or whatever selected number) of the players will be able to receive the reward, and not skill or dedication decides, but the thickness of their wallet.

And to add to that the game being rated for ages 12+, that are easily influenced by such artificial scarcity tactics doesn’t help either…

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Auction items are gone guys

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never mind they are back

They can put those skins as “legendary” now ahah.

I hope they introduce them as event instead.

It would be a great opportunity for Gaijin to save face and earn some money from those that GE the tasks


Saw they aren’t gone, but my point still stands

If they want, even pure GE camos or an inexpensive pack are less predatory and might even earn them more money than this simply by more people buying.

Maybe add a “free Abrams” style pack to apologize for the auction. The Abrams pack sold well, this could too.

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Exactly. that is less scummy for the player,s earns them more money and the artists get their work recongized. a win-win-win scenario

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It specifically says in the first sentence this is for “player created content” and players don’t create vehicles so maybe it’s premature to jump to the worst-case (which I agree would be bad) just yet, and evaluate it on the terms they’ve given: “player-created content”, ie skins.

I would be interested to know how much of the cut the creator gets, though, and how it compares to the existing marketplace/box program for them. I do wonder if this is in part because those terms were pretty poor and skin creators were turning them down or turning away.

I guess I just look at this and go, “well this is clearly aimed at the top 1% (of WT spenders) and I will never be in that 1% so it’s not for or about me.” I kinda feel the same way when the government reduces taxes on luxury yachts or whatever. If I’m getting angry at this I’m really just getting angry at inequality and I’m not sure I need that in my life. YMMV.


This is honestly impressive

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Yeah if this stays as a way for skin creators/creatives to get paid then I am all for it

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Gaijin, if you want an auction system, then do that with silver lions (yes, less money for you, more fun for us) otherway, keep it like it is now because otherway there will be many bots playing on the auctions. Saw this in mang other games in past years and all ended pretty bad.

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There is no way this “mechanic” can be improved or redeemed.

The sole purpose of auctions is to drive up the price of an item. It only benefits the seller. Meanwhile the buyers fight among themselves in a race to outbid the other.

Maybe it makes sense for rare one of a kind treasures in real life, but this is a video game. These items are nothing but some pixels on a screen.

There is no reason why there should only exist 100x of snake profile frame. You can make as many of these as you’d like! There is a word for this, artificial scarcity.

I think the reception here speaks for itself… nobody likes this!

You would be better served selling these items on the market (which already exists) to a playerbase of several thousands for couple GJN a piece, instead of a handful of whales for extortion money

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That still would be limiting it to a certain amount of people, Not everyone has let’s say 50 million silver lions at hand.

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But, those silver lions would go the the guy that created the auction, maybe someone that need those to increase crew slots or crew expertise, or unlock vehicles

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hate the idea of this immensely.

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