Well just got a few sent back from the auction again..(1250 currants for emblems that before were selling between players for 3k).
What bothers me about the emblems now is not the loss in currants but the loss in game play. I remember when I first started playing this game and got the quest to create my first icon. I was so excited when it was finally created after putting in all of the work myself by donating.
I'm just wondering now if TS has made a mistake by making icons easy to obtain and taking away extended game play from the new players when the game goes live. I've seen quite a few posts on the forums of late saying players are bored and the game doesn't seem to have longevity (I don't agree personally) but obviously creating icons prior to emblems being available at the auctions did take a lot of time and planning and gave you/us a prize at the end. It gave us extended game play.
(on a separate note..still don't understand why the 'auction' is called the 'auction'. We don't bid. It's a marketplace)
Ramble over....