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Anyone who diligently quests can acquire quite the sum of money over time, and everyone can acquire 500 credits via milestones every month. Complaining that someone put more time and work into it than you is asinine.
"Just do what Aeryx did." 90% of my time is on mobile. Not conceivable.
"People should not be punished for being successful." No. They shouldn't. But neither should other players be punished because they do not have the same amount of disposable income. I could easily drop a couple thousand every few months. But I also have two autistic children and doing that would mean not seeing to their needs.
Nobody is saying do away with auctions. What would be liked is an auction like promotion that people who can't drop a starting bid of 2000 credits can participate in.
If you cannot do with Aeryx did, then you should by definition be beat out by the work he put in to generate that amount of money. Whether your personal life can or cannot accomodate that is your own fault. Players are also not "punished" for being outbid on auctions. You simply don't get what you wanted. It's not like you bid credits and lose them still when you get outbid.
Also the whole idea surrounding "If you don't like it you must be benefitting from it." is BS. I couldn't afford credits for years, and never once did I start crying about what I couldn't buy when auctions rolled around. You get outbid if someone spends more money than you, period. If you don't like it, grind harder than they did be it IRL or in game.
Also, if I roll a newbie and buy a bunch of credits on them, and drop a starting bid of 2k credits on some imaginary "non whale" auction, then what?
I never asked for a 'newbie only' auction. The examples Konnorn and I gave were raffles or a lottery like promotion.
Edit: You seem to have misunderstood a lot of what was said, so let me try again.
No, you are not punished for losing an auction. However, when in the first 10 minutes of the auction we are at 2000 credit bids, 300 IC, the punishment is you do not even get to participate. It is a promotion that is pretty much exclusive to whales
And I did say likely. I understand some players will defend it regardless.
Edit 2: I never intended to make this about my children. It is what it is and I accept it. The point I was trying to make is that it is not always somebody's choice for not being able to put in the money to participate. But honestly, I have no idea why I am trying to reason with you. You are one of if not the most toxic player in the game. This is a waste of my time. Have a good day
In a raffle sort of auction, you actually spend money and have a high chance to get nothing in return. As was previously stated, this starts diving into lootbox territory which nobody likes.
Now, as for you and @Oba trying to twist my words about the consequences of having children or whatever life choices you have made as an individual surrounding you not being able to compete with other players into an attack on autistic people, you both can get bent.
I responded with a laughing emoji because what you said was some clown shit.
The first attack I saw was you calling people asking for something a bit different cry babies.
Who are you again?
I think a raffle as another idea is pretty good; although I think it could be argued that we already have something pretty similar (the lil wheel of fates thingy). I also think it could be argued that the regular auction is already the Auction of Plebians. More and more, though, I find myself moved by what @Aeryx said earlier, moved enough to walk back what I said before: auctions should definitely be more frequent. Maybe even more frequent than they were before now that platinum keystones are a thing.
Feedback has been received. Expanding the ability to participate is important.
If you have ideas for different promotions you'd like to see, feel free to start a new thread around that premise, but let's keep this one relating to the current auction.
Neither of those are bad ideas really. I could see the more auctions angering people though. Devalue the artifacts that they paid so much for and we have a Corvo issue of that Parisol. (No hate to corvo) people who dropped 2k credits on an artifact having them negated. That's pretty triggering. But smaller auctions of not as unique or cool artifacts would be nice. The prices won't go as high which let's more people join in on the back and forth. Even if they do not win, more people get to participate.
Edit: Sorry brax! Crappy service. Didn't see your cease and desist until this posted!
2. Got to be prepared on the day of.
3. RP opportunity for everyone.