New York, United States, 27th Nov 2023 – PlayerAuctions was founded on November 20th, 1999, taking advantage of the burgeoning online gaming industry to connect buyers and sellers, at a time when few other digital marketplaces existed. Since then, the marketplace has gone through several iterations, with each guided by the core philosophy of allowing both buyers and sellers to gain ownership of their digital assets, simultaneously serving needs from the perspective of both security and convenience.
24 years later, PlayerAuctions is the largest secondary marketplace for the trading of gaming assets, with product development over the decades leading to the most secure and most user-friendly version of the eCommerce platform in its history. They’ve diversified their product suite from strict marketplace functionalities to other utilities that online gamers have asked for, while implementing constant product improvements on the marketplace itself.
This year, PlayerAuctions released a real-time player count monitoring tool to track the active population across a slew of relevant games (for example, the Diablo Player Count Tool.). Noticing a lack of tools for gamers to analyze the player count of games without official player count data, PlayerAuctions developed a proprietary algorithm which utilizes Google trends data to estimate player-count data based on historical data. This allows players to estimate the player count of games which don’t provide publisher data or allow API access to third-party services. Being able to assess the relative popularity of a game is a critical feature for secondary gaming asset sellers to determine both pricing and expansion opportunities.
PlayerAuctions also refined the sorting for their offer-listing pages, allowing seller ratings to be sorted in a more discrete way, distinguishing by both product type and game. Previously, large sellers would dominate all games because ratings were standardized across the marketplace, but with discrete game and product ratings, the platform has become more democratized, allowing greater visibility to small sellers who don’t have the sheer volume of larger, consolidated, sellers.
Visit an offer listing page to see the discrete rating system here.
These are just some of the improvements that PlayerAuctions has made this year alone. In its 24-year history, the marketplace has made innumerable improvements to trust and safety features, buyer and seller convenience, optimization, and more. They pioneered a new standard in gaming asset trading with Player Guardian, a proprietary toolset that ensures the highest level of compliance, party and counterparty safety during gaming asset trades.
In 24 years, PlayerAuctions has never stopped striving to improve and iterate, and the anniversary is a perfect time to see just how far the marketplace has come already. With record breaking sales and user numbers for 2023, the momentum for PlayerAuctions has not slowed.
About PlayerAuctions
PlayerAuctions is the market leader facilitating the buying and selling of digital gaming assets. They connect and support buyers and sellers by providing them a robust set platform marketplace services, including but not limited to, fraud-protection, identity verification, payment disbursement, after-sale insurance and protection, and customer support. The company was founded in 1999, based on the philosophy of giving players access and control of their own gaming assets. For more information about PlayerAuctions, please visit https://www.playerauctions.com.
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