The fee is infinitely more on auctioner than exchange if u try to list one by one a deed for 30 peds,as, that will be the cost of 1 share after the split up, feel free to try it. If u compare exchange vs auctioner, exchanger is way better. So, this change doesnt add any extra fees, just reducing some
As it sits now, yes the auctioneer is more expensive, but they are splitting the CLD's up into 100 units down to a 30 ped per unit cost. so that 25 pec is now is a lot more expensive than the current 50pec auction fee. Because you are calculating selling the whole 3000 ped or 100 new shares vs the current 1 deed value, but what is going to happen is now that the barrier to entry has gone down, tons of players who never could afford CLD's will now buy these shares, so mindark can easily get 25 pec *100, if someone sells off 1 CLD. that convers to 25 ped, then add in whatever % they take on top of that, and it easily becomes more expensive on the exchange. Dont forget trading activity will go UP because barrier to entry has gone down, so that 25 pec fee will earn them infinitely more than the auction fee.
And no matter what price they put it at, it will always be more expensive than the auction fee. Because you wont be able to trade them FOR FREE via P2P.
The only greed is from you players.
MA needs fees to pay their employees and develop the game.
As stated by others mindark has had very profitable years the past few years, for them COVID was a gift from God because players were trapped in doors, and especially here in the US people got stimulus checks, and people have a hard time prioritizing financial needs over wants so I bet a large portion of US players spent a bunch of that on the game.
Either way, MA is already collecting fees from CLDs as they are sold in auction, so why do they need to take away from players the ability to trade with each other for free?
Their Mantra for years has been "All trades are final". And when you contact support they always recommend you use collateral in your trades if you are lending items between friends, or in my case as a business model. So now they are removing the item that is most easily used as collateral for this purpose. So that is a second function they are deny players.
Players are not being greedy by not wanting to lose gameplay function with no added functionality to make up for the loss. This is one of the few times I would say I don't want MA working on an update. Because the update serves no meaningful value to the player base and removes gameplay mechanics and safety features.
Won't AUDs and AMDs still be useful for rental collateral?
Yes and no. Their low value will mean it requires a higher volume to collateralize any large trade. Want to borrow a 100k+ item from a friend, now you need over 1250 AUDs, and nearly triple that in AMD's vs. 34 CLD's. Don't forget the differences in income as well. CLD's pay out a lot more than AUDs and AMDs. So to be able to collateralize something the ped tied up will be earning way less than it was before and require more units, and price changes have a bigger impact on overall value of the deeds. A new event gets announced, suddenly price shoots up, or drops, by 3-5+ ped. That makes a huge impact.
I think the main issue everyone has is mindark is taking away functionality without offering something new to replace it and making us pay them for doing it. If they were offering us a way to still trade them directly without Mindark taking a fee, or even with a fee so they can still be used the way they are now, there would not be a problem with them going on the exchange. Keep in mind CLD's were supposed to turn into houses or something like a decade ago(Or more?) and they never really did what they said they were going to do. So they already effed up their original purpose of function for the player.
If I am not mistaken CLDs were only created because a deal fell through with a company that was supposed to buy calypso so Mindark would only offer services to PP's and not run a planet themselves, and the players bailed them out by buying the CLDs. (Someone correct me if I am wrong I was not playing when all of this happened, I am going off of memory from reading about it somewhere)
