What do you all think about this guild store bidding?

GreenhaloX · August 2016

I see a positive, but also some craziness with how the current weekly bidding for a guild store location is. The positive is, if you don't win your bid, your gold gets refunded back into your guild bank. Awesome.. great. The craziness that I see is.. one, it is a blind bid. So, you cannot see the other bids. All the while, you're just waiting and hoping you have put in the higher bid or hoping no other guild has out-bid you. Two.. I don't see the fairness in this at all. I think this current system is broken and some improvements are needed. Good ZOS folks.. are you listening?! Lastly, if you do win the bid, how would you know if you have spend more gold than you need to. For example, you drop 500k gold and won the bid. How much more did you had won by? Did you overbid? You just don't know. What if the next lower bid was 100 or 200k gold, then you had wasted 300-400k gold more than you need to. I'm willing to drop more gold as needed to secure a good spot, but also not have to waste gold when I should not need to.

So, I think we should be able to see what the current bid is all the way to the closing time. This will tell me if I am willing to put in more gold for that location. We should also be able to bid on multiple locations, not just the current one bid at one location, per guild. Then, after bid closing, if a guild has multiple winning bids, that guild takes the one it wants, and then the others goes to the next highest winning bid. I don't know.. maybe this is something that makes more sense, but would be too complicated for ZOS to enact.

What do you all think on this? What are your views and opinions on this?

KaleidoscopeEyz · August 2016

I'd like to see Ebay style bidding. The process needs to be more transparent.

nine9six · August 2016

Get rid of them.

Runs · August 2016

Seeing the bidding would drive up the price on every single trader(there would be no more minimum bid wins anywhere) and would still wouldn't really matter on the busy trader locations because the real bids would come within seconds of closing.

As far as the multiple bids go... One guild could go around bidding multiple kiosks up to millions gold and then just pick the one they really want, turning it back into a blind system for the kiosks they don't want.

Both would hurt the smaller guilds that still manage to find traders currently.

Robbmrp · August 2016

It's totally getting out of hand. I would hope that Zenimax didn't plan on people paying millions for a trader spot every week yet that has been happening for quite a while now.

Give it time and the weekly guild requirement for any guild will be 25k per member just so that guild can bid on a cheaper spot in some out of the way space.