We released the Auction with the intention of making it an experimental feature, aimed to support community content creators. The items that will be offered for sale will be made by content creators and the authors of these items will get a percentage from the total sales as a reward.
We may add other cosmetic items besides the ones currently available during the Auction testing period. The purpose of the Auction is to provide an opportunity to purchase cosmetic items of interest without having to rely on luck, as well as to give authors the opportunity to receive a reward that corresponds to the demand for the items they create.
How long until the “community content” will include community created vehicles like the recent Swiss P-16 which coincidentally has been removed from the store?
Or better yet a “content creator” (someone on the dev team) makes a vehicle which in no time at all will be sold in the auction with all of the money going back to Gaijin.
Again looking at the past actions of Gaijin it is inevitable that they do something like this. There is a clear history of anti-consumer/predatory behaviour from Gaijin and this only adds to it.
Also it’s great to see that after all the backlash the only response is a regurgitated comment from the initial announcement, no questions answered, no concerns or criticism responded too either.
I’d actually suggest a different system. Rather than making an auction to use predatory artificial scarcity, add GE camouflages made by content creators to the game directly. Content creators can then get a share of each sale of their camouflages.
This allows for more camouflages in game, makes them available to all players including consoles and doesn’t pressure players by artificial rarity or bring us closer to the dumpster fire that would ensue if there were vehicles auctioned.
If it’s supposed to be limited time camos, even that is fine, but the artificial scarcity and overly inflated prices shouldn’t stay.
(Sorry for language, but I just don’t see an auction providing any player benefit that couldn’t be achieved without the negatives)
As we said we’ve should have gotten a poll or pre-warning of this, the fact you’ve straight up added it without asking us. You knew it would get a bad reaction. Most people are against this so remove it.
It would also be reassuring to get a confirmation that there will never under any circumstance be vehicles auctioned off with artificial scarcity that can’t at least also be bought for a fixed price and/or earned by completing reasonably achievable challenges.
It’s very concerning that this is even an option, so having that risk denied officially would be very nice
And you needed to create an auction house especifically for that?
Wouldn’t a “in game crate” do the same thing? Or even selling the content creators skins through your own store and give them a cut from there sort of you like you already for the esports skin packs?
If the whole point is to sell cosmetics and share the income with the creators, how is LIMITING the items with ridiculous prices the way to do so?
By the looks of it you are creating a monopoly in where whoever has the most money can inject that into whatever “project” this is. Plus there’s no transparency here because we can’t see who is BIDDING, so for all we know it could be rigged from the start.
Also before I forget this… That’s just horrible. The “demand” is making it artificially rare. The great thing about digital content is that it can be copied infinitely, so limiting the numbers is artificially driving up demand for the sake of increasing prices.
That’s the definition of predatory marketing…
We have kids aged 12 and up presented with artificial rarity specifically aimed to make them feel a fear of missing out, pushing them to spend money. This should be changed
You can do this without an auction system. People aren’t mad that the devs are trying to include usermade content. Theyre mad its through a preditory gambling system like this.
Want to add user content? Put it in the game for GE or on the market. The fact the devs are giving it an artificial rarity just st people will spend more on it is sickening.
