Witte said:I think the money that used to goto resellers (and withdrawn it) will goto MA instead now. This will benefit us real users allot, as income of MA will increase, so they will be able to offer better services, and the cost to play for us doesnt realy change, as it doesnt realy matter if we pay resellers or MA.
steffel said:so it seems selling junk with low tt and low tt+ in auction is now cheaper. selling high tt stuff/high tt+ will cost alot more.
this will lead to: only junk in auctions, hardly any big batches of ores/enmat, better stuff sells on streets or shops = more hassle to find an item, market prices get mroe volatile due to the lack of reference prices for auction tracker sites.
glad i still can tt stuff without fee ... yet
Teranoz said:Witte : resellers do not loose, the extra cost of the auction is substracted from the money you get AFTER SELLING it, so not sold = only 0.55 fee.
So they still can do these things, and even cheaper.
Dont think resellers are going to pay that extra from their profit.
Switch said:MA certainly thought of them miners at CND too, storing their heavy weights with the auctioneer temporary
Bird said:Really? I could not find it somewhere. Do you have a link or quote? Thx!
Marco|MindArk said:No, MindArks revenue stream is from decay. So it is not an urban legend. All other areas (auction fee, ammo, etc) is cycled back into the economy.
Teranoz said:It seems some people think auction fees get out of the game to MA.
Marco made a statement somewhere in the forum that the auction fee goes back into the lootpool.
This might even result in a slightly bigger average loot (what you will need to spend in the auction again).
Witte : resellers do not loose, the extra cost of the auction is substracted from the money you get AFTER SELLING it, so not sold = only 0.55 fee.
So they still can do these things, and even cheaper.
Dont think resellers are going to pay that extra from their profit.
Sonya Heart said:So we had open discussion on auctions.
What did they do, ignore everything said.
Optima said:And yes it might go back into "lootpool"....
Noggin said:Just wondering, back when the auction fee was 1PED, I could stomach losing that if my item didn't sell (you did lose it, right?)
How about now? Do you lose your money if your 10k PED item doesn't sell?
CronZero said:Lets see. EU is a business and it need to make profit, so MA now earn 1000% or more from what they earn before from auction. It is just another way to take ours money to their pocket.
wizz said:Bye bye Entropia
...but wait!!!
how am I ever to sell all my stuff now???
to sell my 700+ items it will cost me around ~7k peds in auction fee!!!!
and thats only IF I sell them the first time and not have to replace them a couple of times. So make that over 10k peds to sell all my stuff
Couldn't MA just keep their bloody fingers of our FREE market economy!?!?!
I dont mind MA taking a tax on sold items. But I really loath the idea of MA plucking my money by charging for unsold items!!!!
one word for this new VU
BLEH
And a much less productive universe as well. If the hardcore miners and crafters spend the time "forging relationships" and selling directly, they will produce less overall. Once the relationships are forged between miners and crafters, yes it will not be nearly as time consuming for the miners (but they will not really be able to effectively extract top dollar for their ores, as they will have to give bulk discounts to save time), but for the mid level crafters who are not shop owners.. I pity the effect that these changes will have for them.711 said:I think MA wants more player interaction, and the higher auction fee will help promote that. Now it will make it more appealing for miners and hunters to forge relationships with crafters, to sell their loots and ores directly. Similarly, crafters will prefer to sell their crafted items directly to the consumers. In the end I think this will make for a more exciting universe.
Marco|MindArk said:MA makes money on decay on item usage. All other monies are transferred back into the Entropia economy.