Unfortunately, that's not true. It's not just the players that have buffs that kill new players, usually well geared players like to pick on new people (I've seen it happen far too many times). The good news is we are working on addressing this issue and our next update is going to be heavily focused on new players and those who can't donate. On topic, I don't know if people would still be willing to bid as much if the buffs were limited to WoE and GvG. We've tested the buffs and they're no where near as bad as they were before and tried to meet people in the middle as much as we could. We removed the OP class specific buffs but still made it better than the basic default buffs. They don't last long, and as others have said there are ways to counter them. It's very, very, very unlikely we would remove the guild hideout buffs all together. Instead, I'd recommend suggesting specific buffs you would want removed.