Howdy!
Without a doubt, this year's flash sales had the largest discrepancy in a while between what was expected and desired by the community and what actually happened. I know many people feel angry and disappointed about the way things went, so in the interest of ensuring that next year's flash (and any other Featured Auctions and Depots between now and then) is better, please give your constructive feedback on this year's flash. What was good? What was bad? What could have been better? Please don't rage about how you didn't get one item you wanted.
I'll start:
- A very large percentage of requested items showed up this year! That is amazing as many of these items were hard to find and missing from the economy.
- HOWEVER, a large portion of those requested items were on the Featured Auction instead of the Depot. Some of the most requested items only showed up once on the Featured Auctions. Some of these made sense and followed patterns of Featured Auctions from previous years (Broadsider, Snarblepup, Blossom Aura), and that is okay, but others (Prismatic Halo, Prismatic Seraph Wings) have been on the Depot in past years but only showed up on FA this year.
- Almost all of the Depot items were the same as last year. The items that stood out (Divine/Volcanic Round Shades, Divine/Volcanic Long Feathers, Hazardous Hedge Coat, Shadow Devious Horns) were the best items, and the sale would have benefited from including more items that are not regularly on the Depot.
- The Hazardous costumes were extremely overpriced (with the exception of the Hedge Coat). The helms were priced about where the community prices them, but the Draped Armor and Brigandine were about 3x the current community price for those items. The Hedge Coat, on the other hand, was considerably less than the community price for it, and although it was high, that is okay.
- The lackluster Depot sales caused everyone's attention to be focused on the Auction House. This resulted in many, many items going for way higher than is expected for them. CozZzy Aura was ~70-80ke (roughly 4mcr), but it went for 8.9mcr on the FA. Wings of Frenzy were ~20-30ke (1-1.5mcr) and for some reason went for 3.6mcr. Teddy Bear Buckler was ~50ke (2.8mcr) but went for 3.7mcr. I think the solution to this is to have more interesting items on the Depot, but I am still absolutely baffled by some of the prices on the FA.
i like the FAs
i didnt enjoy the overpays on fa items
some depoted items prices were out of touch
bitter end as the final item showcases the my feelings of this flash sale