I understand and approve of the auction feature for general use by players.
I thought that first few pokemon up for auction were put up by the admin account to test the feature.
Then I saw a bunch of "high value" pokemon go up for trade, and a forum post by D1g1t saying he is doing it to "lower prices". And now people are requesting pokemon they want and D1g1t is adding some of them based on some enigmatic criteria.
Why is D1g1t(/are you) intervening in this fashion? I'm usually the "governments should intervene to stop price gouging" girl, but "Rare" 3S pokes are not a necessity to enjoy the game. If anything, the hunt for them is what makes it fun.
Putting pokemon up for auction like that just adds 1 or 2 to the pool, and that is if the person who won them decides to trade it for a similar/slightly higher price, which is not likely as the person who wants it most would bid the highest amount for it. As in, a person who wants the pokemon for themselves would be the highest bidder, and won't trade it at all. This seems to be completely ineffectual in lowering prices in my theories. However, let me know of any alternate theories where this would lower prices.
Even if I accept the premise that this would lower the prices, why is that something that ought to happen? People will complain about the price, whatever it is. And these auctions seem to be in hundreds of millions, so only the "richest" players can afford them anyway. And I know by experience that people only accumulate that much exp by spending their time in game pawning pokemon for profit. (I've been playing without any 3S pawning, and I've only made ~5.5B in ~4 years of active gameplay.)
Someone needs to explain why [is] the request system is the way it is? to me. As in why bother with someone having quoted a "high price" for a pokemon, why is that relevant to the pokemon being put up for auction?
Sorry if this came of as disrespectful, I'm just a bit confounded by the apparent drama with these auctions. I had someone DM me on discord asking me to stage one of those auction request messages for my dark tapu fini 3S. As in full on spamming me, begging "Please bro", "Do it for me no bro" (Sorry, but I am racially profiling them as an Indian kid based on that syntax
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