First of all I apologise if any of my facepalming came over as immature. I’m here for a healthy discussion. And sorry CJB for getting your name wrong, It was late in the evening.
Seemingly new people will spring from nowhere (that old pvper sold his account and the buyer namechanged making his character seem new).
The value behind gear will drop (That dude is either a hardcore PvPer, or he spent 15 eur and bought someone else's character).
The natural death of characters from people quitting will be greatly reduced
See how it completely ruins the feeling of achievement? It's like in retail where gear doesn't mean shit anymore cause any scrub can get it.
There are not more players with that certain gear or certain level, one character just changed owner. This only changes the feeling of achievement for the person who buys the character, but that's a decision that person has to make themselves. And other people have given arguments to why it is very unlikely someone that with a good character will put his character up for auction:
Why do people think high pvp ranked/geared pve'rs will be selling their characters? Outside of one instance on ED, no pvpers sold their accounts. Very few geared pve'rs bought/sold their character. You're telling me some guy whose invested 40+ days into their character will sell it for 15 euro? Bullshit, the only characters being sold are going to be scrub shit geared blank faces.
they are not even selling it for 15 euro they are selling it for fucking twinstar stars
con fucking grats you can now buy a murloc pet on the server you just quit
So the cost of spending a lot of gametime on their character really doesn't outweigh the benefit of having a little twinstar stars. They will just leave their character dormant and if they really want to get rid of it they will head to the black market for real money.
Yes, you dont gain anything exclusive, just like I said myself. You, the player, get more options though.
And it's not a choice between leveling and buying, you either level or you buy or you level and buy.
It will be easier for people to control a niche market (since they can easily get 10, for example, mooncloth transmuters).
And an important thing some seem to overlook is that this feature has supply and demand. The supply of characters in auction is limited, so not everyone is offered the option to buy one or even ten characters. If the demand for characters is much greater, the prices won’t rise because it is limited to 15€ maximum. Leaving an acute shortage of characters. So it’s a self-regulating system where the trading is limited.
You only control a niche market if you buy every mooncloth that comes on the auction house and artificially raise the price. You don’t need to craft any mooncloth for it. If anyone would have the opportunity to buy multiple characters (or someone that just levels a couple themselves) it would actually increase supply of mooncloth, thus lowering prices. Which is something the whole server benefits from. And the costs of buying those characters really don’t outweigh the benefits of so I doubt anyone will do this.
4) Gives people who spend real money more options than people who dont. (Since I bought this priest I can choose to fight this boss as druid or a priest, where as before I was only able to fight it as a druid).
Someone who doesn’t spend money isn’t limited to one character, he can level a different character just the same. Rendering the same option to choose between two characters completely free. Yes if they buy a character they save time, but again this option has a limited supply.
Twinstar should disallow the selling of characters and accounts, yes. Account lending is still fine IMO, so long as the owner remains the same. Paying someone to level your character should not be ok though.
You contradict yourself here. If you lend your character to someone else, that person earns gear or xp for you so changing your sense of achievement. I don’t see a difference with buying a character. If you have a friend willing to level your character or you pay a stranger to do it. Isn’t the result exactly the same? Isn’t it unfair to people who have these friends? Is it unfair that people spend money to support the server?
And as stated before any form of account trading and selling is forbidden on kronos, there is only the option to trade characters.
Remind me again what this has to do with selling characters?
Just because the Kronos team don't lock threads mentioning other server that doesn't mean we have to be in favor of everything they do.
Yes I understand, I was trying to make a point that money isn’t the main reason why the feature is implemented, but it actually has a a nice philosophy behind it. I used feenix as example to show how a server can earn tons of money in a way that does harm gameplay for everyone.
So I can understand why some people overestimate the effect of this feature. But every player who played on Kronos before that posts here says the auctions didn't affect them at all. So maybe it is not that terrible?