You are multiple Japan champion. Did you sacrifice your life for BB ? I don't think so. It's the same for a lot of great managers throughout BB.
You miss one guy, that's life.
It's a lot more than one guy. hehe I would say that this measure would create an even playing field for all players despite whatever is going on in there lives and make the game more user friendly. That should be what a developer strives for.
I can definitely understand the ad revenue angle. That's difficult. Perhaps a friendly game would keep more people interested and thus make up for the revenue loss, but I don't have no tangible evidence to support that statement. From a business perspective the thought process of "ad revenue is more important than improvement" is short sighted if you want to see this game continue to be successful.
Perhaps this could be a great supporter feature. It would encourage people to buy supporter. The only con is that it might be too powerful of tool and create a competitive advantage for supporters. On the other hand, pushing the envelope on the competitive advantage policy might be okay in the sense that it would make being a supporter more attractive.
WIthout implementing an autobid...I doN't see why the BBs just doN't do what other MMO managers do, sell ingame money for real money. It would suck and ruin the game...but to me every auction worth being involved in expiring while I sleep...kinda ruins the game too.
Uuggghhh!! With or without context, the notion of BuzzerBeater selling in game currency for real world currency is painful to think about. :-(