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Originally Posted by the doctor

Has anyone seen an official explanation on this change? I'm curious about the logic behind it. Entirely possible it's out there already, but my cursory search hasn't been able to turn anything up.

Based on the other changes they've implemented (or have hinted at), it seems like the biggest thematic consistency so far with '23 has been "crush the F2P model in the hopes of forcing more players into purchasing points", but assuming that's actually true, the change to the auction model might be having the opposite impact, which is why I'm curious if anyone knows more about it.

For example: the Limited Edition cards. Last year, those were easily and routinely selling on Auction for north of 150K, because of how rare they are. Now, you have to logically assume anyone trying to collect all the Limited Edition cards is almost certainly a whale willing to drop huge cash to buy those up at whatever cost is necessary - F2P players aren't hoarding 100K points to buy a single card.

However, with the removal of the auction model, prices for everything are extremely depressed because buyers can say "screw you, you can take this offer or you can take nothing". This seems to short circuit the idea of getting the whales (where the money is in these games) to spend more - without the Auction component driving prices up, they don't have to purchase more points to acquire these extremely rare cards.

Now maybe I'm just being overly cynical here about all the PT changes this year, but this seems like a change where in the desire to crush F2P, they've unintentionally ended up harming themselves.

Thoughts? Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot and that I'm thinking about this all wrong, but I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around this change when looking at it from the perspective of "how do we make more money off of Perfect Team?".

My honest opinion ? It has nothing to do with FTP or not...they just looked at competition and what it is they are doing that works and introduced a similar system. It's extremely common for games to "borrow" features from the competition.