Metin2 SG Planning An Auction System, May Buy Back Accounts

Dear Vizitator's

A few days ago, Metin2 SG's [GA]Christopher revealed that the team plans to develop an Auction house for the server. The current plan is to allow bidding with Gold, TEC Points (the server's version of item mall points), or real cash via PayPal. Aside from giving players the opportunity of selling items and equipment, the team are also looking at the possibility of allowing players to put their own accounts up for auction too.

Metin2 SG is unique amongst Metin2 servers, in that a user will not be punished or banned for selling (or attempting to sell) their account. Rather, it is almost encouraged. If a user quits and cannot sell their account (and does not give it away), the account goes dormant and the server loses a player. If a user quits and sells their account, the account will have a new player and the server's population does not decrease.

Perhaps the most interesting part though, is the possibility of TEC-Interactive itself buying player's accounts. At first thought this might not make much sense, though Christopher explains it in a later post:

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It does make sense for TEC to buy your account and continue to put it up in the Auction House for potential sales. Remember, if TEC buy your account let say for 100,000 TP (which is equivalent to SGD84.00), TEC's investment is only 25% of SGD84.00 which is royalty payable to our developer. When a new player saw that account in the Auction House and wish to purchase it for SGD84.00, TEC would gain a profit of the remaining 75% and thereby gained a new player.

Since we must remember that the publisher essentially does not have to "pay" for its own mall points besides royalties to the developer, other things fall into place. This presents a rather ingenious way for TEC to make multiple gains on a new player, while still being able to entice said new players with discounted accounts.

Currently the staff are polling their player base, with the most popular answer being that most would sell their account upon leaving Metin2 SG.

News or a release of the Auction House system should be expected within the next few weeks.

Source: SG Board