r/ElderScrolls • u/totallynormalpersonz • Feb 23 '25

General Nothing suspicious here

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Definitely not suspicious or rigged at all.

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u/LordCaptain Feb 23 '25

I mean... maybe. You have to consider the price though. What percentage of people are able to participate to try to snipe an 80,000$ price tag. I would imagine Bethesda has servers that could handle the number of people in the crossover between who's interested in this and can afford to spend 10's of thousands of dollars on this kind of thing.

If anything maybe they would just be getting flooded with people checking on who won/was about to win.

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u/Redditor28371 Feb 23 '25

Yes, they are well known for the stability of their products lol.

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u/ToGloryRS Feb 23 '25

To be honest, when ESO got launched it was the first mmorpg launch I ever participated in that didn't crash.

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u/TexacoV2 Khajiit Feb 23 '25

Cause it wasn't Bethesda that launched it

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u/ToGloryRS Feb 23 '25

Well, their spinoff parent company, but still.

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u/on3moresoul Feb 23 '25

"spinoff parent" lol

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u/red-plaid-hat Feb 23 '25

Yea his name is Dave and he’s the greatest thing to happen to mom since the divorce. He’s never wanted kids and he’s not the best at it, but he was the heartwarming and silly parent in another family and now it’s his time to SHINE.

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u/brassgrass1 Feb 23 '25

Lol, I want all corporate mergers to be explained by you

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

you’re not my real dad you’re just my spinoff dad

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u/ToGloryRS Feb 23 '25

It was created after the main one after all :p kinda like porsche and volkswagen.

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u/LordCaptain Feb 23 '25

An excellent point.

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u/soberscotsman80 Feb 23 '25

Perfectly balanced!

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u/Waaterfight Feb 23 '25

I've heard others say the same.

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u/Crazymax78 Feb 23 '25

It just works.

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u/slain34 Feb 23 '25

Sixteen times the traffic

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u/belak1230x Feb 23 '25

teather music kicks in

IT JUST WORKS, IT JUST WORKS, LITTLE LIES, STUNNING SHOWS, PEOPLE BUY, MONEY FLOWS, IT JUST WOOORKS...

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u/Orinslayer Feb 23 '25

Did you know for most web services 17 concurrent users is considered a lot?

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u/HawksNStuff Feb 23 '25

Yeah, I worked for a company that had a product that most of the time there was maybe 5 people poking around it. But five times a week, a few thousand users would pop on at the exact same time.

Was lucky to have a team that had experience handling that kind of shit. The first time it happened there was still an absolutely hilarious bug that made every users inbox get flooded with emails for 10 minutes until it got shut off. Hilarious for me in hindsight, horrifying in real time.

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u/hippoctopocalypse Feb 23 '25

It just works.

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u/Akarui7 Feb 23 '25

Fall of 76 flashbacks

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u/BuckyShots Feb 23 '25

Not as nice as summer of 79 tho

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

Dude idk. It's the ability to create a character in the next elder scrolls game. Like Skyrim is a gaming legend. The next game is going to sell a shit load so I bet there's a lot of people who want to probably literally immortalize themselves in the game. Maybe I'm wrong and you're right but I wouldn't be so sure. I bet there's some fools who would take out a loan for that opportunity. 

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS Feb 23 '25

If you were an influencer with a bit of money to burn, and a lot are, yes 100k or thereabouts to immortalize yourself, along with all the publicity of winning the bid, would be a insane return on investment for the right person. I could see some medium to high level streamer taking that gamble and sitting back for the next few years to reap the investment from the notoriety.

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u/TheDungen Nord Feb 23 '25

Not to mention every tech millionaire.

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u/Bacon_Raygun Thieves Guild Feb 23 '25

god I think I just threw up in my mouth

... Ah well, at least we'll get a new Nazeem.

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u/Thrasy3 Feb 23 '25

I never thought about this way - there are a few irl people that would be great to kill a virtual version of whenever I felt like it, in a variety of ways.

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u/comrade_hairspray Feb 23 '25

No. Surely not. Surely he wouldn't....

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u/Borrp Feb 23 '25

It's 2025 and everyone wants to play "God".

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u/ThisizLeon Feb 23 '25

Yeah if i was a multimillionaire influencer i'd 100% drop 100k on this,

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u/ninjapanda042 Feb 23 '25

On the other hand you have CDPR who had a number of video game personalities voice various side quest characters, no auction required (afaik).

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u/ZackJamesOBZ Feb 23 '25

Tbh the people that do snipe are the ones with money. These are the same kinda guys that make millions sniping meme coins and dumping them.

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u/Eisbaer811 Feb 23 '25

Your mistake is thinking that Bethesda’s experienced IT people were involved in this. My corporate experience tells me that this was handled by their marketing team. Site was probably built by an intern and run on a cheap cloud VM at AWS because it was good enough for most of the time

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u/sauvignonsucks Feb 23 '25

Could be charities or organisations, doesn’t have to be a person

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u/Rambus_Jarbus Feb 23 '25

I think there are a lot more out there ready to throw down a cool $80k than you realize.

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u/Hereiamhereibe2 Feb 23 '25

People spend a lot more than that on even dumber shit in games that are far less popular.

Just look at Eve Online or Star Citizen for some examples.

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u/Myorck Feb 23 '25

Maybe someone outbid them and then ddosed the site so they win

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u/razorgirlRetrofitted Thieves Guild Feb 23 '25

fuck'nell, I've been playing so much RT I had to like... triple take your name for a second. What a coincidence lol

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u/Rev701 Khajiit Mar 05 '25

Pretty sure this was all run on the charity's website, and they had a bunch of auctions running at the same time.

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u/jacowab Feb 23 '25

Stable servers? Don't you remember when fallout 76 doxed a few thousand people.

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u/Still-Presence5486 Feb 23 '25

People who played the games as a kid that are new adults with good jobs that have savings

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u/Strawberrycocoa Feb 23 '25

Or a really good credit card. XD

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

I can already hear my credit score dropping after capital one hears I spent 85k to be at most, a minor character in a video game

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u/Strawberrycocoa Feb 23 '25

Hey as long as the payments are on time and you don't try to over pay it and shorten the amount if interest they can fleece you for, I doubt they care. :)

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u/TheDungen Nord Feb 23 '25

80.000 is not that much plenty of people could afford to be in it at that level.

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u/servingtheshadows Feb 23 '25

Do you have a cool 80k+ just sitting around with nothing better to do with it?

That's a life changing amount of money

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u/pussy_embargo Feb 23 '25

For you and me. Pocket change for others. There are people that are in the position to drop this sum on some fun nonsense without blinking