Global Remove Gold Tax

[Cavifyy]

Minecraft username:

Cavifyy​

Suggestion:

Remove Gold Tax​

Detailed description:

I propose that the 5 PikaNetwork Golds Tax for listing items on the Auction House should be completely removed. This tax is charged for every single item we list, making it expensive and frustrating to use a core feature of the server.​

Reason(s):

• Pika Gold is a premium currency purchased with real money. It feels unfair and disrespectful to have a tax on a currency we spend real cash on.
  
  
• The tax discourages players from using the Auction House, especially for lower-value items, because the 5 Gold cost can be higher than the item's profit.
  
  
• It creates a negative experience for players who want to trade freely. An Auction House should help the economy, not punish players for participating.

Example(s):

If a player buys 100 Pika Gold and wants to sell 20 different items from their storage, they would have to spend all 100 of their purchased Gold just on listing fees, with no guarantee their items will even sell. This means their real money vanishes without getting any fun or value from it, just from trying to use a basic game feature.​

 

[Meth0vas]

I don't agree with what you said, because /ah was full of stuff for 1 gold at all times and that was so bad... but somehow I see your point.
Maybe we just remove gold from the auctionhouse again and add a new gui to trade ranks, classes, keys and special items - Im collecting ideas at the moment

 

[Cqrrxw]

I don't think it should be completely removed but rather revamped. The 5 gold tax is quite stupid as that 5 gold spent goes nowhere. It's not like it's being paid into the developers and then they're using the gold to spend it on the gamemodes because that's not how it works.
Potentially having to have X amount of gold in order to list a gold auction.
So like the base requirement to post a gold auction would be 50 gold, if you have 49 gold you cannot put a gold auction up however if you have 50+ you can. It wouldn't take any gold away from you but rather make it an area where if you want to list something for gold, you would've had to purchase 500 gold at least once whilst playing.
Although I don't see that happening.
All together neutral on this suggestion. Gold auction definitely needs a change but I don't know if this is the approach

 

[Ungluecklicher]

remove that you can sell for gold ruins the economy in every mode.

 

[King_Pr0]

The whole reason this feature got added was to stop mass listings of items for very small amounts of gold, these listings tended to break the economy of the server, since none of the main currencies were being used, everything was getting sold for gold. The tax feature is in place to make players focus more on using the main currencies of the gamemode like exp, coins and so on for the less valuable items, and mainly leave gold for the more valuable items such as ranks, chatcolors, tags and so on. Giving players the ability to list items for any amount of gold they want without any limits the only exception being is they have to have a certain amount of gold as @Cqrrxw mentioned, wouldn't fix this mass listing issue as it isn't that hard to obtain or loan that certain amount of gold just to be able to sell some items. And regarding @Ungluecklicher 's point, I disagree that the auction house gold feature ruins the economy, it has decreased the number of scams significantly as well as made obtaining gold easier for players globally. It's still a bit challenging and requires some work, but that's the point of the whole game, you need to work hard for what you want.