Feedback time: First monthly auction - Forum

Callum
World famous

callum wrote:
theres already a perfect system for auctions that doesnt send me a ton of msgs and flood the forums

always appreciate u trying something new its just not for me

Private
World famous

Claire wrote:

callum wrote:
theres already a perfect system for auctions that doesnt send me a ton of msgs and flood the forums

always appreciate u trying something new its just not for me

yea why do we need this

why not do more of the regullar auctions if youre trying to create a gold sink

and more shop events like the circus or patel horror events

Moss
National star

Moss wrote:
The purpose of the auction just doesn't work for males. We don't need to "get cr out of the game" because honestly most main males doesn't have that much anyways. Like Libertas mentioned, I too would rather see the male sets fill up game functions than these auctions, so perhaps you'll want to consider making it a female only thing tbh. At least for me, this first time around, it was mostly like "oh here you can get a free set males!"

But I don't mind the auctions at all besides from that, and I did enjoy it! I think one week with fewer autions for males would work better.

Private
World famous

Chlorine wrote:
For me, the forum actions weren’t very exiting -but the idea to get credits out of the system and for people to only get one set + not being able to sell right away = Best part!! And I loved that.
For me at least it would be better if these rules got transferred to the o.g monthly auctions instead and dropping the forums because it gets messy with so many threads and bids that doesn’t count etc

Private
International star

wug wrote:

Moss wrote:
The purpose of the auction just doesn't work for males. We don't need to "get cr out of the game" because honestly most main males doesn't have that much anyways. Like Libertas mentioned, I too would rather see the male sets fill up game functions than these auctions, so perhaps you'll want to consider making it a female only thing tbh. At least for me, this first time around, it was mostly like "oh here you can get a free set males!"

But I don't mind the auctions at all besides from that, and I did enjoy it! I think one week with fewer autions for males would work better.

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MissLondon
Queen of Queens

MissLondon wrote:
I enjoyed it more than the usual auction due to it allows other users with less cr a fair opportunity.
It would be nice if sales for all could be locked until the auction has ended.

Not certain how this works to take credits out of the game since the user can buy more?
Overall, still enjoyed the experience.

Private
World famous

Rotte wrote:

Shadowjess wrote:

Ella wrote:
Oh there was also some terms of condition that i dont think i ever found out were was or what was, lol.

@Ella
The terms were linked within every forum that the winners were posted in.
I also sent out a mail on Friday with a link to the forum with the rules in.

The way it was set up is that you need to 'enter' the auction by agreeing to the terms before you make the bid. Think of a real life auction or even like Ebay or something. You agree to the terms and conditions before you start your bidding.

I even linked it out a few times last week.

If it helps the terms are here:
http://en.virtualpopstar.com/social/forum?category=11&topic=287657

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I'm not disputing that it may seem confusing, but I just wanted to explain why I did it the way I did haha.

So if i entered last week, but didnt bid? can i bid this time or am i not allowed too?

Private
Living legend

Shadowjess wrote:

Ella wrote:

Shadowjess wrote:

Ella wrote:
Oh there was also some terms of condition that i dont think i ever found out were was or what was, lol.

@Ella
The terms were linked within every forum that the winners were posted in.
I also sent out a mail on Friday with a link to the forum with the rules in.

The way it was set up is that you need to 'enter' the auction by agreeing to the terms before you make the bid. Think of a real life auction or even like Ebay or something. You agree to the terms and conditions before you start your bidding.

I even linked it out a few times last week.

If it helps the terms are here:
http://en.virtualpopstar.com/social/forum?category=11&topic=287657

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I'm not disputing that it may seem confusing, but I just wanted to explain why I did it the way I did haha.

So if i entered last week, but didnt bid? can i bid this time or am i not allowed too?

When you accept the terms you accept it for any auctions that are valid for that month.
The dates are at the top

Pavlov
International star

Pavlov wrote:
the set wasnt my style personally, but i will probably join if i like the set the next time

Private
Living legend

Shadowjess wrote:
So from what I'm taking away so far:

Improvements can be made in relation to the times (length and pace of male auctions) and and money figures.
The rules to enter were confusing.

while other's pretty much thought it was a waste of time/annoying due to the forums and mail reminders and would rather have shop events.

If I was to of put the outfits into the shops - they would of been at a higher credit level to filter out credit (where the argument there would be the codes main server got it for free), however that would also be then unfair to players with lesser amounts of credit who wants to join in.

I'm going to add a poll to see the overall view on if I should continue them.

Allie
Queen of Pop

Allie wrote:
I think it went well. Although I have an idea. Since you want credits out from the system, you could use like a Mada set or something that people go crazy over. That would also result in people keep bidding much and not end up bidding 10 cr as it is now.

I think this went great really, i can't see anything that could be improved more than yeah.. one set/weekend and not one set/two weekends

Private
World famous

Nina wrote:

Shadowjess wrote:
So from what I'm taking away so far:

Improvements can be made in relation to the times (length and pace of male auctions) and and money figures.
The rules to enter were confusing.

while other's pretty much thought it was a waste of time/annoying due to the forums and mail reminders and would rather have shop events.

If I was to of put the outfits into the shops - they would of been at a higher credit level to filter out credit (where the argument there would be the codes main server got it for free), however that would also be then unfair to players with lesser amounts of credit who wants to join in.

I'm going to add a poll to see the overall view on if I should continue them.

I thought these forum auctions are just held for the sake of cr removal from the game.

I think people would rather deal with the fact they couldn't get a set, because it's super expensive and they don't have enogh cr to bid, than have every item being super expensive due to the amount of cr we have ingame.

I didn't know the set we bid on was a code set on the other servers. Lily's idea sounds good actually, having a set made by a currently hyped designer would help a lot.

Allie
Queen of Pop

Allie wrote:
I like this, something that happens. People often complain that VP is "boring" but this way it's something special once in a while.

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I actually liked the fact that there were multiple because it gave everyone a chance to get it but I can see how it upset people that the auction began with people buying it for 600+cr and I bought it for 12cr yesterday.
I like it though and I think it would teach people to finally start bidding less and not making VP economy ridiculous.

Plus it made it less stressful as I kept getting outbid at the last second and getting annoyed but I just disappeared for 2 hours and the people out bidding me had already won it so I was about to get it without stress.
I can understand the stress is part of the appeal for some but as someone who really dislikes auctions, this is my opinion :3

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Also I don't quite understand the part of the auctions being to create a gold sink?
From what I understand, most people don't have that much cr except for a few individuals who have a lot but aren't buying due to their wl not being sold? In which case, isn't this making everyone poorer and the rich just a weensie bit poorer?