They honestly should just do away with the rotation cycle and allow everything to be purchased at full price at any time.
From that point, introduce sales on rotation as they do now with items on full rotation.
The current discounts seem a bit disingenuous, which is one of the first complaints people had about the bazaar. The introduction of discounts for temporarily available items that rarely or never are available at full price.
Pushy consumer trickery, but honestly in my opinion it’s just silly not having most things available at all times, such as emotes.
There was a Hyrkanian bundle available somewhere the past week for example which i in theory would like if:
i can afford it;
has accompanying culture packs such as DLCs.
So, say if they do suddenly release Hyrkanian Tarps & tents, structures, crafting tables, armors and weapons the coming 3 months. I would be more inclined to buy the hyrkanian Pulwar + Saddle + Trophy Stake but they’re out of rotation and who knows when it’ll come back.
I know that they would want players to buy it with that possibility in mind, but it just makes me wholly avoid it since i dislike having too much of a circus stylistically in my playthrough, or have items i bought that aren’t used in any build at all.
So currently if i have all DLCs the only cultural playthroughs fully available to me to expand upon with bazaar items would be:
Yamatai / Khitan;
Khitan /Hyrkanian maybe?;
Argossean / Aquilonian / Barachan / melting pot;
Nemedian / Hyborian / Nordic / Aesir (excellently covered in base game + bazaar + DLC);
Pictish / Khambujan / Black Kingdoms / Savage;
Poitain / Zingaran / Barachan / Zamoran;
Stygian (excellently covered with the base game + bazaar);
Stormglass (Sorcerous) / Acheronian;
Turanian / Vendhyan / Shemite.
Which is quite a lot of options at first glance, were it not that a lot of these pairings are made -very- liberally and should ideally not even be made seeing as some pairings aren’t geographically or politically logical. Just purely going by visual style and personal opinion.
That means i simply won’t buy the loose items for insufficiently expanded upon cultures, which mostly just leaves the DLCs and whatever i can staple together with those as the core.
Even without dipping into the topic of the actual price of some bazaar items, a missed opportunity in my opinion.