I think it ultimately comes down to miscommunications. We had lots of hype leading up after the wishlists being sent to GH, as well as the crazy start with tails tails etc.
People were expecting it to be similar to last year, starting Nov 27th and ending ON cyber monday. When nothing got posted on the 27th, we assumed that it would all be pushed to cyber monday itself.
In the end, we had 44 total items listed on SD, with about 14 of them being exact repeats of last year. We had 82 featured auction items, which was pretty cool, but like most years, those items are out of reach for most of the player base, as they get bid up super high by whales/merchers.
GH has said themselves that they didnt want to SD many items to "preserve the rarity", however depoting tails tails for 3500, when they typically would go for 2.5milcr/60ke. This item alone shows they dont care about crashing the price of an item.
All in all, Im thankful that it even happened, however going forward I would like GH to be a bit more transparent on the schedule of sales. I know plenty of people who would have been stoked to see a skeggox or something similar on depot, even if they put it up there for market price.
Just my 2 cents.
That was a good start, but yeah, it would be nice to always have at least one daily random cool cosmetic in depot or at least a few days more after Cyber Monday or similar events. GH could probably make more money by offering more, different things throughout the year, because different things are interesting for different ppl. There could be an automated way to do this for GH, like pick random item from DB -> check last sold AH price -> convert with current E price -> add sale discount 10% -> put in depot for 1 day.