Quote Originally Posted by Twio View Post
Just regarding the currency of the auction house; why do you want the currency to be in crystals? Think of all the people who have playsets of every card in the game and more gold than they know what to do with. Crystals will still be needed to buy sleeves, decks and packs. It just seems silly that someone may not be able to buy foils from the auction house because they have no crystals but meanwhile they've bought 5947 Fire Snakes because there's nothing else to spend their gold on.

You're probably going to reply referencing # 11 on your list, but being able to pay for things on the auction house with gold would just make everything simpler.
I would prefer using SCs instead of gold for one main reason. Gold is actually easy to get in my opinion. Now imagine those players with 6 million gold manipulating the auction and possibly hoarding the cards.

From my experience of playing games with auctions, there are usually two scenarios.
Game A has the potential for players to get items that are not easily accessible. So let's say item kryptonite is rare that people will pay 10k gold for it or however much because they need it, this is pretty much a supply and demand scenario. So sometimes rare items will drive up the price and you can see manipulation. For example, in SE a foil jasmine would cost a lot. Just because many use it and well dat ass. And there are merchanters that will hoard this stuff.
Game B auction has pretty much became a trading alternative. I'll sell this for money I can use it not to buy another foil.

Personally, the fact that all cards are accessible through merchant is good for players. So in essence auction will be purely foils and for luxury. I just think SCs for auction will help Wulven in terms of in app purchases. Obviously, if you sell foil jasmine for let's say 10k sc, Wulven can tax the profits and technically they make money. I just see this concept in maplestory where they use NX cash for auction and it seemed to work well.

P.S. I suck at portraying my point.